Putin may not get a new Yalta but face a new Star Wars program, Pastukhov says
Vladimir Putin’s address yesterday was primarily directed at his domestic audience which wouldn’t have believed him if he…
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“Moscow’s appropriation of Ukrainian history not limited to Queen Anna Yaroslavna” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
The nuclear fallout of Trump’s possible détente with Putin
“We can talk about the economy, we can talk about social security—the biggest problem this world has is…
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…
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…
No panic from Putin as West still doesn’t recognize nature of his threat to the world, Pavlova says
Many Russian opposition commentators are saying that in the wake of the release of the report showing Moscow’s…
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, trapped between war and revolution, will choose war, Ikhlov says
There are two possibilities in Russia today: either Vladimir Putin is in control of events or he is…
Litvinenko murder was ‘act of nuclear terrorism,’ his widow reminds the world
As the defenders of Vladimir Putin do everything they can to muddy the waters about his role in…
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…
Moscow mulling ‘nuclear provocation’ against Ukraine, Kyiv analyst says
To overcome the stalemate on the ground and to get itself out of the diplomatic corner it has…
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…
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…