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…
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World faces crisis like 1952/53 rather than 1914, 1939 or 1962, Piontkovsky says
Leaders, like all other people, typically go through a process whenever confronted with a radical change in the…
Putin’s plutonium threat ‘tactically clever but strategically disastrous,’ Solovey says
Vladimir Putin’s ultimatum to the West over the plutonium issue may be “tactically clever” on his part largely…
Kremlin reads the West wrong but the West is beginning to read Russia right, Shevtsova says
The Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine and its challenging actions toward NATO ships and plane are based on its…
Moscow tries to divide and weaken Europe but its actions unite and expand it, Gudkov says
Despite all of Vladimir Putin’s efforts to divide and weaken Europe, no one has done more to “strengthen…
Putin’s nuclear brinkmanship betrays his military’s backwardness, Felgenhauer says
Vladimir Putin has revived nuclear brinkmanship as a method of statecraft because the Russian military is so far…
Putin heats the water hotter for the frog
Many are expecting that the conclusion of the British judicial investigation into the murder of Aleksandr Litvinenko that…
Kremlin thinks West would not respond even to a small nuclear bomb attack, Kovalyev says
Sergey Kovalyev, the head of Memorial, says that he fears that there are many in the Kremlin who…
Putin’s new Cold War is different and far more dangerous, Kyiv paper says
Vladimir Putin has chosen a military strategy which makes the new cold war he has started not only…
‘Star Wars Redux’ – Putin’s fears of losing his nuclear ‘club’ work to Ukraine’s advantage, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s declaration that Moscow will create a nuclear strike force capable of overcoming any anti-ballistic missile system…
Nuclear disarmament reversal — direct result of Putin’s invasion in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is changing the nuclear balance in the world in three ways: it is leading…
Putin’s unrealizable dream vs. his all too-real nightmare
That Vladimir Putin lives in a different reality than do other world leaders is now more or less…
A vicious circle: The more aggressive Putin is, the more Russians love him
Russian polls, admittedly not the most reliable source, suggest that the more aggressive Vladimir Putin is, the more…
Former KGB colleague: Putin isn’t going to start a nuclear war but may destroy Russia
Despite threatening language, Vladimir Putin is not going to start a nuclear war, according to Yuri Shvets, who…
Putin mistakenly believes his nuclear threats will keep NATO from defending Baltics
Vladimir Putin believes that he can dominate the Baltic countries and destroy NATO not by a direct invasion…
