Read More 4 minute read International Opinion Putin moving from ‘Great Victory’ to hostility to entire world – and young Russians are ready to follow him, Ilchenko says Just as “Crimea is Ours” paled with time as a mobilizing tool, so too Vladimir Putin’s “Great Victory”… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read Hybrid War Ukraine’s water blockade of Crimea should stay, because it’s working After Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine ceased supplying water to this naturally arid region with only… byBohdan Ben
Read More 2 minute read Hybrid War Five-year-long disinformation campaign didn’t make Crimea Russian Polite and green men Heavily armed and stripped of their insignia, Russian soldiers quietly took control over Crimea’s… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 3 minute read Hybrid War Gaps in geography: Russia thinks Black Sea not European, Duma vice-speaker sees Azov Sea inland Russia’s In a speech held in Strasbourg on 23 October, EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, referred to the Black Sea… byEU East StratCom Task Force
Read More 6 minute read Crimea Russian Aggression Popov demolishes last KrymNash myth — that Crimean Anschluss hasn’t cost Russia anything This week, Moscow historian Arkady Popov completes his demolition of what he calls the eight myths of the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read Crimea International More Seventh KrymNash myth — that annexation was a response to West’s denigration of Russia — baseless, Popov says The seventh “Krymnash” [CrimeaIsOurs] myth, one suggesting that Russia has not engaged in aggression in Crimea and the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read Crimea Russian Aggression Popov demolishes Krymnash myth of ‘Fascist Euromaidan’ Moscow historian Arkady Popov continues his examination of the eight myths propagated by Russia’s “Krymnash” [“CrimeaIsOurs“] notions with… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Crimea Russian Aggression Fifth myth of Krymnashism – Ukrainian statehood is ‘artificial’ – demolished by Popov The Kremlin’s insistence that it has the right to take pieces of Ukraine because “Ukraine has no territorial… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Crimea Russian Aggression Fourth Putin myth about Crimean Anschluss without foundation, Popov says Moscow historian Arkady Popov has been systematically examining and demolishing the eight myths Vladimir Putin and his regime… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Crimea Russian Aggression Popov demolishes third ‘KrymNash’ myth – that Crimean people freely expressed their will Moscow historian Arkady Popov takes up and demolishes the third myth that the Kremlin has promoted as part… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read More Opinion ‘Krymnash’ Meme Part of Russian Society’s Return to Late Soviet Times “Krymnash” [Crimea is Ours] arose as a serious meme in March 2014, an expression of the patriotic pleasure… byPaul A. Goble