Belarus now prime candidate for Russian invasion, and anti-Lukashenka protests may hasten it
In the course of an interview with Kyiv’s Apostrophe portal, Russian commentator Andrey Illarionov says that “Belarus is…
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From CIA archives: Stepan Bandera’s 1954 interview to German radio
On 17 January 2017, the CIA declassified more than 930,000 documents from the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) system…
What happened in Avdiivka
The word Avdiivka has entered the lexicon of the world’s mainstream media and global diplomacy over the past…
Putin may exploit disarray in Washington to launch attack on Belarus, Minsk experts say
Two experts at the Minsk Center for Strategic and International Research say that Vladimir Putin may use the…
Why Avdiivka is the most vulnerable spot for the Russian-separatist army in Ukraine
At least 11 Ukrainian soldiers are reported to have died repelling the deadliest yet 2017 attack from combined Russian-separatist…
New Ukrainian main battle tank to give new life to old Soviet T-64 and T-72 tank hulls
Ukrainian company Arey Engineering Group developed a new main battle tank design codenamed T-Rex (Ukrainian: “Тірекс”), which is to…
Russian involvement in Ukraine’s Donbas “republics”: 10 things you should know
Despite Russian denials of their direct involvement into the secessionist “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DNR”) and “Luhansk People’s Republic”…
The Splendors and Miseries of Russian special services
Because of the spying allegations raging around the US election, many seem to think that the Russian special…
Russia using “organized chaos” to subvert Ukrainian government – analyst
Russia’s hybrid aggression unleashed against Ukraine has transitioned to a phase where Moscow seeks non-military means of ‘resolving’…
Moscow media have launched an anti-Belarus campaign, Warsaw’s EAST Center says
Beginning in November, the Eurasian States in Transition (EAST) Center in Warsaw says, Moscow media sharply increased the…
Ten types of Russian weapons didn’t work well in Syria, the Russian defense minister says
Russian forces demonstrated their prowess in the destruction of the opponents of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad,…
Moscow scrambling to fill ranks of its forces in Syria and elsewhere
Russia’s indefensible actions against the civilian population of Aleppo, actions that rise to the level of crimes against…
Weakness not strength behind Putin’s new doctrine for broader information war abroad and at home
The new doctrine on information security Vladimir Putin signed this week shows that the Kremlin leader is gearing…
Putin’s wars come home to Russia — despite Moscow’s efforts to hide the bodies
Russian combat losses in Ukraine are sufficiently large that they have already had an impact on demographic statistics,…
Was Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament a blunder?
By now, it is a well-known story: in the early 1990s, Ukraine surrendered the world’s third largest nuclear…
Volunteers are creating a drone revolution for Ukraine’s army
Just after Russian aggression commenced in spring 2014, groups of people started collecting money to produce drones for the…
The 75 Russian military units at war in Ukraine
This video released by the InformNapalm international investigative community gives an overview of 2,5 years of their open-source…
Even if Minsk is against, Putin may launch new invasion of Ukraine from Belarus, experts say
Even though Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s government would likely be opposed, Vladimir Putin has sufficient leverage over Belarus to use…
Month after US elections ‘most favorable’ time for Moscow to destabilize Ukraine, Illarionov says
Because the United States will be distracted by its elections and their aftermath, Andrey Illarionov says, the next…
With Tsar Bell that never rang and Tsar Cannon that never fired, what might one expect of Moscow’s bomb shelters?
The Russian government has proudly announced that it has bomb shelters for all Muscovites in the event of…