The Minsk Agreements and Merkel’s political amnesia
President Putin has allegedly been disappointed by the statement of Angela Merkel, where she claimed that the Minsk…
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Zelenskyy’s first Normandy and the illusion of progress
As President Zelenskyy traveled to Paris to participate in the first Normandy meeting in three years, a crowd…
Portnikov: With Putin, Zelenskyy can speak freely
Volodymyr Zelenskyy seemed genuinely perplexed by the very possibility of making public his telephone conversation with Donald Trump.…
Piontkovsky: Ukraine is being prepared for disguised surrender to Russia
Q: Perhaps one of the most significant international events of the autumn was the statement of the French…
Portnikov: Crimea and the Big Seven
President of the United States Donald Trump talks about the advisability of Russia’s participation in what was called…
Putin has outlasted ‘cowardly and corrupt Western leaders,’ Skobov says
Since the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it has been obvious to all but the blind…
Putin is consistent but the West isn’t, Portnikov says
At the very moment that the international investigation of the downing of the Malaysian jetliner concluded that Moscow…
Who is Putin’s candidate of choice in the Bundestag?
The elections for the Bundestag, the German parliament, are approaching and Moscow's attempts to influence the outcome of the…
Switching off Gazprom – best help for Aleppo
"If a free trade treaty with the USA brings hundreds of thousands of Germans onto the street but…
Four key points of the new Minsk process roadmap
The Normandy Four meeting with the participation of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany took place in Berlin on…
Merkel says Donbas elections are currently impossible
Elections in ORDLO (occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts) are currently impossible because of the complicated security…
Is Moscow about to be offered easing of sanctions on the West’s terms?
Russian commentator Lilia Shevtsova argues that Moscow is about to be offered a way out of isolation but…
Kyiv must reject West’s calls to change Constitution and hold elections in occupied Donbas, Piontkovsky says
Kyiv must reject calls by Berlin and Paris to change the Ukrainian constitution and allow elections in the…
Putin allying with Europe’s far right to change Europe, Eidman says
Most commentators have suggested that Vladimir Putin is supporting the Russian extreme right to force the governments of…
12 months of Minsk-2. Examining a year of violations
On 13 February 2016, the leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany, and Russia will once again meet to discuss…
France, Germany now openly collaborating with Russia
No, this is no longer appeasement. Few have dared to call German and French negotiation strategies with Russia…
Russian Federation ‘sooner or later’ will go the way of all other empires, Shevtsova says
The Russian Federation is not sustainable in its current form, Lilia Shevtsova says. “It is the last empire…
West caving on Crimea – Putin’s first undeserved victory in Syria
Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Paris that “when Ukraine restores its sovereignty not over Crimea but…
‘The Normandy Four’ has dissolved into ‘three plus one,’ Portnikov says
The Normandy Four in which Moscow has placed so much faith as a way of advancing its interests…
Russian occupation threatens very existence of Crimean Tatar people, Chubarov says
In an appeal to the leaders of Germany, France and Ukraine who are meeting in Berlin tomorrow, Refat…