Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russia Russian analyst: Two simple reflexes explain Putin’s decisions As the gap between what Vladimir Putin says and does and what Russians see around them widens, ever… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 7 minute read More Ukraine Many Ukrainians remain “Soviet people” decades after collapse of the USSR. How to eliminate “Bolshevism of the mind”? In the evening of 25 October 1917, a blank shot from the forecastle gun of the Cruiser “Aurora” signaled the start of… byEspreso.TV
Read More 5 minute read International More Ukraine Ukrainians’ strong horizontal ties a serious weakness when it comes to their attitudes about Russians, Shchetkina says One of the greatest advantages Ukrainians have relative to Russians is the strength of horizontal ties in Ukrainian… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read Crimea International More By itself, Ukraine’s prosperity won’t return the occupied territories, Shvets says One of the most frequently heard arguments offered both by Western countries and some Ukrainians is that the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read Ukraine War in Donbas “Alex” Martynenko: Psychology for the fighter Oleksandr “Alex” Martynenko has been serving in the army for the past two years. The Kyiv activist took… byRadio Liberty
Read More 5 minute read International More Ukraine White Russian officer and Vlasovite source of Putin’s ‘hybrid war’ strategy, former KGB psychoanalyst says Yevgeny Messner (1891-1974), last chief of staff of the Kornilov Division of Baron Wrangel’s White Russian Army and… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Russians today increasingly like a dehumanized mass of orphans, Moscow psychologists say Two speakers at a Moscow conference of Russian psychologists and psychoanalysts say that Russians today, especially the residents… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Kremlin – a ‘psychopathic power with dangerous illusions,’ Vike-Freiberga says Many foreign leaders have offered diagnoses of Vladimir Putin and his regime – Germany’s Angela Merkel has suggested… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 7 minute read International The trauma of war In her late teens, my sister had a pen pal in the United States, a sort of “long… byRobert van Voren
Read More 4 minute read History of Ukraine International More Geopolitical conquests will not save Russia’s national pride, Moscow scholars say Staunton, May 15 – The pride that people feel in their country consists of two elements: a cognitively… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 10 minute read Featured International The country of triumphant resentment: Yampolskiy on Russia’s loss of reality Resentment One of the most striking developments in Russian society has been the explosive growth of aggression simultaneously… bycolta.ru