Moscow pushing Ukraine toward becoming a nuclear power again, Pastukhov says
Despite Russian military actions, Ukraine has shown itself unprepared for total war, hoping against hope that the West…
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‘Undoubtedly Russia has put nuclear weapons in occupied Crimea,’ Felgenhauer says
Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent Russian military analyst, says that even though Moscow will not confirm or deny the…
Zapad-2017 – anything but a joint Russian-Belarusian exercise, Sivitsky says
Moscow has advertised Zapad-2017 as a joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise, but it is anything but as it includes…
North Korean missiles and Ukraine
In the entire saga of "Ukrainian engines" for North Korean missiles, what deserves the most attention is not…
“Kremlin views Trump as ‘stupid, un-strategic, and manipulable,'” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
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,…
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…
Russia’s nuclear threats and spy games
Last week it was reported that three Russians were arrested on espionage charges. Two Russian citizens and one naturalized US…
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…
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…
Is Russia losing its nuclear defense capability?
There are many reasons why Vladimir Putin has been threatening the West with the possibility that he will…
West’s choice: (a) Assist Ukraine or (b) Destroy the global security system
Many in the West fear that providing military assistance to Ukraine would open the way for disasters ranging…
In response to sanctions, Moscow goes nuclear
A new Russian PR campaign is threatening nukes in response to sanctions in a recent propaganda stunt. Moscow's government Public…