Moscow military analyst: Russian Army currently ‘unprepared for modern war’
Russian forces fought in the Donbas the way Soviet forces fought “50 years ago,” a reflection of their…
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Where to attack next? Europe is facilitating Russia’s choice
Europe these days reminds the author of an episode in UK’s famous “Yes, Prime Minister”. In this specific…
Moscow uses its non-Russian subjects to do its fighting. You won’t guess who’ll be next
The admission by a Moscow newspaper of what the whole world knows even if its leaders sometimes won’t…
Putin aide linked to Maidan killings
In the classic film about Watergate, “All the President’s Men,” Deep Throat warns that in unmasking a conspiracy,…
Russian analyst: ‘There is nothing specifically Russian’ in Putin’s ‘Russian world’
“There is nothing [specifically] Russian in ‘the Russian world,” according to Konstantin Zarubin. Its political philosophy reduces to…
A checklist of 10 Russian developments worth watching
The situation in and around Russia is now changing with such dizzying rapidity that it is all but…
Has the West capitulated to Putin?
Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine and the West’s failure to stand up to him shows what can happen…
German Die Linke delegation visits right-wing terrorists in Eastern Ukraine
Just two weeks after the leader of the pro-Russian right-wing terrorist organisation “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) Aleksandr Zakharchenko…
Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko ‘deeply concerned’ over Debaltseve bloodbath
“Let me guess… Frau Merkel believes the Minsk peace plan is ‘damaged but not dead’. Monsieur Hollande vows…
Hitler used to say: ‘Nobody talks about the Armenians nowadays’
On August 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler explained to his entourage why he thought he could get away with…
FSB sets the stage for new crackdown in Crimea and across Russia
The head of the FSB in annexed Crimea says that “anti-Russian risings do not yet threaten” the peninsula…
American Senators: Obama, Merkel, Hollande legitimize unprecedented dismemberment of European state
US Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released the following statement on developments in Ukraine on…
Ukrainian government created Black Book of Kremlin’s crimes against Ukraine
The information comes from government sources and is accurate up to February 2015, but the costs of the…
Moscow analyst: Western leaders have no doubts about the war being orchestrated by Putin to punish Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has ever fewer resources to prosecute his war in Ukraine, and consequently, eventually some kind of…
A question for President Obama – Then What?
On February 5, 2015, Terry Atlas, writing for Bloomberg News, stated “Washington policy makers are caught up in…
Vilnius analysts: Moscow would use a ‘conventional’ war against Lithuania
Most analysts have become so focused on Vladimir Putin’s use of “hybrid war” that they do not take…
Putin, in reaching out to the far right in Europe, has not forgotten the left
Vladimir Putin’s ostentatious flirting with right-wing nationalists in Europe has attracted so much attention that many have devoted…
Why Obama, Merkel, and Poroshenko remain silent about the fact that the ceasefire does not exist
The day and a half that has passed since the moment when the ceasefire for Donbas was announced…
Nadiya Savchenko: an ordinary young woman that became a symbol of freedom – Soviet dissident
“I know the problem of hunger strikes very well. Two times I held one for more than 4 months, 112…
Opinion: Putin ‘will not advance further’ in Ukraine
Many in Ukraine and elsewhere are fearful that Vladimir Putin will expand his aggression into other regions of…