Putin has destroyed any possible basis for unity on ‘post-Soviet space’
By his bombast and aggression, Vladimir Putin has destroyed “what was even a year ago called the post-Soviet…
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Polish writer: If US doesn’t arm Ukraine, Putin will move against Baltic countries
If President Obama follows German Chancellor Merkel and doesn’t arm Ukraine, the US president will not only “be…
Moscow commentator: Russia in far worse shape than most assume
Vladimir Putin’s bombast and aggressiveness both is rooted in and helps conceal the underlying reality: “the situation of…
Russian language not united or unifying even inside Russian Federation
Despite Vladimir Putin’s having put the Russian language at the center of his ideas about a “Russian world,”…
SWIFT disconnect: Why does it absolutely terrify the corrupt Russian elite?
One bank official from Cyprus* explained to me why top Russian officials, such as Medvedev, Kostin, etc., responded…
Political analyst: Putin’s Russia is already ‘a classic fascist state’
Fascism is no longer a threat in Russia, Vitaly Portnikov says; rather, it is “an accomplished fact,” the…
Moscow commentator: Putin has no interest in peace in Ukraine now or ever
Vladimir Putin may organize short-lived ceasefires for various reasons, few of which have anything to do with Ukraine,…
Moscow analyst: War in Donbas marks ‘the irreversible and absolute end of the era of Russian empires’
The chauvinism Russia’s war against Ukraine has unleashed is becoming the grave digger of imperial consciousness among Russians,…
Fascism in Putin’s Russia likely to be fascism of the extreme left
Most in Russia and many in the West are so used to thinking of fascism and especially Nazism…
Putin’s incredibly shrinking “Russian world” – 3 reasons he insisted on Minsk for talks
Despite his success in intimidating some European governments into inaction or even willingness to come to terms with…
20 Russian soldiers refuse to fight in Ukraine, complain to human rights council
Sergey Krivenko, member of Russia’s Presidential human rights council, told Russian independent news channel TVRain of a complaint…
German parliamentarian demands to ban Russian fascist Dugin from Schengen area
Opposition to the planned trip to Germany of Alexander Dugin, Kremlin loudspeaker and one of the most infamous…
Minsk is Putin’s Pyrrhic victory opening the way to his eventual defeat
Vladimir Putin’s success at intimidating the West and exploiting both his own propaganda resources and the desire of…
Russian war propaganda threatens to invade Warsaw, Berlin, London in 2015
Russian forces invading and bombing Warsaw, the Baltic States, Berlin, London, planning to reach Washington DC – this…
From a Munich in Moscow to a Munich in Minsk: How Europe has come to Putin’s aid
In the 1930s, Hitler pursued a simple policy: he simply said one thing and did another. Putin has…
At Minsk, Putin got ‘everything he wanted,’ took no responsibility for the future
After the publication of the Minsk agreement, Andrey Illarionov and Andrey Piontkovsky say that “Putin received practically all…
Russia moved its newest tanks to the Ukrainian border right before the Minsk talks
According to information on social networks, the Russian army did not waste time and just before the Minsk…
Kremlin’s ‘stability’ is Russia’s financial crisis
Anti-crisis expenses cut by half because there is no money at all. At least one trillion 375 billion…
What Ukraine should do in order to not lose in Donbas
When the ministers of foreign affairs of Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia met in Berlin in the ‘Normandy…
Illarionov: War in Ukraine will end only when Putin or his successors drop ‘Russian world’ idea
As he has done so often in recent months, Andrey Illarionov has performed a real service to the…