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,…
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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…
Is Russia planning “a new Donbas” in the Balkans?
A few weeks ago the Associated Press published a widely syndicated article about a Russian ‘spy base’ located…
Russia’s involvement in Donbas war open secret in Donetsk – France 24
The war in Donbas has been ongoing for 2,5 years. The economy of Donbas is devastated, and despite…
Putin’s ‘improvised war hysteria’ risks going ‘out of control,’ Shelin says
The militaristic hysteria the Kremlin has unleashed in order to frighten the West and win support at home…
Putin and Russia both far weaker than many think, three analysts say
Vladimir Putin and the country he heads are far weaker than Moscow propaganda suggests and, what is equally…
Putin likely to expand Russian invasion of Ukraine in January, Felgenhauer says
Rumors and fears about the possibility of a third world war between Russia and the West have become…
Russia preparing for war in the media but not in the budget, Moscow commentators say
The Moscow media are filled with stories suggesting that Russia is preparing for war, but a close examination…
MH17 report may lead Moscow to use military force against Belarus, Minsk analyst says
The reactions to the international report that Russia was behind the shooting down of the Malaysian jetliner have…
Eastern Europe arming itself because ‘no one wants to be the next Ukraine’
In what many are calling “the Putin effect,” countries across Eastern Europe, including even Belarus, nominally Russia’s closest…
Putin returning Russia ‘not to Soviet but to Stalinist’ state security system, Felgenhauer says
Reports that Vladimir Putin wants to create a single security agency in place of the plethora of such…
Russia determined to expand influence over former Soviet colonies
The overall picture for Russia in autumn 2016 in regard to some of its former European colonies that…
Umerov case highlights why Crimean Anschluss a threat to Russians, Portnikov says
All people of good will can only welcome the release of Ilmi Umerov from a psychiatric hospital, after…
Russia hit problems recruiting for war in Donbas, Tymchuk says
Russia’s military commanders over the "LNR" and "DNR" regimes are increasingly concerned about the inability of the two to recruit…
Ukraine Can Defeat a Russian Invasion, says American Colonel
Should Moscow invade Ukraine, Kyiv stands a good chance of inflicting a strategic defeat on the Russian armed…