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From Anschluss to Invasion: Putin follows Hitler’s playbook
Despite the lessons of appeasing Hitler before WWII, world leaders have again failed to deter authoritarian aggression from Russia
Russia’s state ideology of Ruscism: what you need to know
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has recognized Ruscism as the state ideology of Russia. According to Ukraine’s Center…
Russian ideology: imperialism, militarism, and racism
The modern Russian official ideology bears quite a few similarities with German Nazism regardless of multiple Russian statements…
Timothy Snyder: If Ukrainians hadn’t fought back, the world would’ve been a much darker place
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no…
Ahead of Russia-U.S. talks, worldwide rally demands “a clear no to Putin’s imperial policy”
The rally was not only about Ukraine but all states and peoples that were occupied or attacked by…
Russia’s moves toward fascism come ‘not just from Putin,’ Russian human rights campaigner says
Many Russians blame their country’s moves toward fascism on Vladimir Putin alone, Lev Ponomaryov says. But it is…
For Russia’s rulers, war now a defining ‘principle of reality,’ Pavlovsky says
For the 30 years of the existence of the Russian Federation, the Kremlin has increasingly gotten involved in…
Putinism is the post-industrial form of fascism, Skobov says
Putin’s attention to and approval of ever more distant if equally odious figures from Russia’s medieval past show…
In 1991 Russia, ‘no one was ready for democracy or really wanted it’ and not much has changed, Lev Gudkov says
In an interview with Vienna’s Die Presse, the Russian sociologist and pollster says that initially it appeared young…
Russia resembles a cemetery through which an armed man is walking, Martynov says
The political editor of Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta says that young Russians have now been confronted with a…
Putin better reflects underlying Russian values than does the opposition and his system will thus outlast both, Pastukhov says
That makes him successful at retaining power, the London-based Russian analyst says, especially since the opposition refuses to…
‘Russia may cut itself off completely from the West,’ Sergey Medvedev says
What is already taking place, the HSE scholar says, is the formation of “a medieval strata-based society” where…
Putin views Ukraine as “the anti-Russia” and the struggle against it as his mission, Shevchuk says
Vladimir Putin considers Ukraine not as a country and nation in its own right but as “’the anti-Russia,’…
Putin’s new article – ‘ideological justification for a future war,’ Pastukhov says
As such, Putin’s article is a kind of justification for action, “although Putin doesn’t understand this,” the London-based…
Why the West should be paying close attention to Putin’s article
This thinly veiled ode to Pan-Slavism attempts to bind the fate of Russia and Ukraine together in a…
Putin now says Ukraine is becoming ‘the anti-Russia’
The Kremlin leader added this will require “particular attention” from the Russian authorities because it involves the security…
Putin and Milosevic: Blood brothers
Slobodan Milosevic and Vladimir Putin are cut from the same cloth. Just as the West’s experience with Milosevic…
Putin moving from ‘Great Victory’ to hostility to entire world – and young Russians are ready to follow him, Ilchenko says
Just as “Crimea is Ours” paled with time as a mobilizing tool, so too Vladimir Putin’s “Great Victory”…
Kremlin’s targeting of messages makes ‘ideology of hybrid war’ more effective and dangerous than Soviet predecessor, Eidman says
In Soviet times, Moscow sent out a single ideological message to the world; now, the Kremlin sends carefully…