Putin and Milosevic: Blood brothers
Slobodan Milosevic and Vladimir Putin are cut from the same cloth. Just as the West’s experience with Milosevic…
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How Ukraine will try to prove Russia finances terrorism
Ukraine’s memorandum comprised 17,500 pages and weighed 90 kilos. A special cart was used to transport the documents:…
Putinism is a genuinely new threat and not simply a revival of earlier ones, Yakovenko says
Putinism represents a new threat to the world, one very different in fundamental ways from those of earlier…
Putinism – a greater threat to humanity than anything the West has faced before, Yakovenko says
Speaking to the Forum of Free Russia in Vilnius, Igor Yakovenko says that “over its many thousand years…
Putin’s approach to Ukraine threatens entire international order and must be reversed, Skobov says
As hard as it is to imagine in the 21st century, Vladimir Putin is perfectly prepared to go…
Hungary’s Jobbik Party shows itself to be Putinist, not Hungarian nationalist
Hungary’s extreme right Jobbik Party, which has long pushed Budapest to take up the cause of ethnic Hungarians…
To deal with Putin, West needs to study Russian criminal world, Eidman says
Russian foreign policy, Igor Eidman says, “consists of a bizarre mix of the traditions of a corrupt bureaucracy…
Putin’s rise had 13 ‘fathers’ and 12 serious opponents, Illarionov says
Vladimir Putin and the Russian political system known as Putinism did not emerge out of nowhere, Andrey Illarionov…
‘The world has stopped loving or even respecting Russia and Putin,’ Shevtsova says
Polls show that countries around the world not only have stopped loving or even respecting Russia and Putin…
Putin views Russians as ‘divided people,’ thus threatening all Russia’s neighbors, German historian says
A core element of Vladimir Putin’s worldview is that the Russians are “a divided people,” German historian Wilfried…
Putin thinks he’s winning and is expanding his Stalinist attack on West, Pavlova says
Many in the West following the decision of more than 20 countries to expel Russian diplomats to show…
Putin elites want ‘Stalinism without Stalin’ and ‘repression with a human face,’ Rubtsov says
Russians do not, by their nature, “love Stalin,” Novaya gazeta commentator Aleksandr Rubtsov says; instead, they “are being…
Yakovenko: Putinist fascism – not an ideology but a set of criminal ‘understandings’
Vladimir Putin’s fascism, the first “post-modern” fascism, is able to include under its banner so many radically different…
Putin has transformed Russia into a gigantic ‘Island of Dr. Moreau,’ Nemets says
In his 1896 novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells describes how a doctor on a small…
Putin’s greatest fear is the FSB refusing to fire on the Russian people, Golts says
Aleksandr Golts, a Moscow specialist on military affairs and the deputy chief editor of Yezhednevny zhurnal, says that…
‘The fish is rotting from the head’ for the second time in Russian history, Eidman says
“A fish begins to rot from the head,” Russians say, “and society descends into insanity following its dictator.…
‘The Samantha syndrome’ – a new name for an old threat Putin is exploiting
The Stockholm syndrome, the situation in which a captive begins to identify with his or her captors, is…
Putin’s ‘real but Pyrrhic victory’: infecting the world with distrust and division
Vladimir Putin has achieved a real but Pyrrhic victory with his policy of hybridity: domestically - by transforming…
Debates about Putin now recall those about Hitler in mid-1930s, Ikhlov says
There has been a dramatic increase in the influence of pro-Putin forces in the West in recent months,…
Putinism isn’t the Brezhnevism of today: it’s far more dangerous and vigorous, Pavlova says
It is fashionable to compare the Putin regime of today with that of Leonid Brezhnev, but such comparisons…