Weakness not strength behind Putin’s new doctrine for broader information war abroad and at home
The new doctrine on information security Vladimir Putin signed this week shows that the Kremlin leader is gearing…
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Putin’s Russia for export at odds with his Russia for Russians, Shiropayev says
A major source confusion about Vladimir Putin and his intentions is that the Russia he has been promoting…
Putinism – a greater threat to the West than Soviet communism was
Putinism, as ideology and practice, is now a greater threat to the West than Soviet communism ever was,…
Putin has infected Russia with a disease he can’t cure or control, Yakovenko says
Having illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, Igor Yakovenko says, Vladimir Putin infected Russia with an incurable illness, one…
Putinism represents triumph of ‘feudal traditionalist reaction,’ Skobov says
Many commentators suggest that what Vladimir Putin is doing is restoring Sovietism, but they are mistaken, Aleksandr Skobov…
The globalization of Putinism
The year 2016 will go down in history as a turning point. Whatever happens during the second half…
Servility and Guilt: Putinists among Russia’s diaspora
Two analysts recently addressed support for Putin among Russia's diaspora communities against the backdrop of a longstanding tendency…
Occupied Crimea is Moscow’s test laboratory for repressions, Stelmakh says
Moscow’s illegal occupation of Crimea is an even greater threat to the world and to Russia itself than…
Only beneficiary of Karabakh fighting is Putin, Piontkovsky says
Vladimir Putin is the only beneficiary of the renewed fighting in Karabakh, Andrey Piontkovsky says; and to the…
Crimean Anschluss opened way for justification of Stalin and Soviet system, Zubov says
The Crimean Anschluss opened the way for the “completely open” justification of Stalin and thus of everything Soviet…
Expert: Ukraine’s increasing multi-dimensional crisis – result of Minsk Accords
In addition to all the other ways in which he has profited from the Minsk Accords over the…
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…
Realism takes hold in the West
The scope and impact of the Maidan, the subsequent occupation and annexation of the Crimea by Russia and…
Putinism’s Godfather: Primakov laid groundwork for Putin in Russia
Many Western obituaries and appreciations of the late Yevgeny Primakov portray him as an alternative to Vladimir Putin…
Putinism – not nearly as strong as it appears
Vladimir Putin by his aggressiveness and bluster has convinced many in his country and elsewhere that he and…
Like Stalin, Putin makes fascists feel ‘right at home’ in his ‘Reich’
Some Russians explain the holding of a conference in St. Petersburg of fascists from around the world by…
Like Stalin and Mao, Putin needs ‘enemies of the people’ to keep power
To survive, Putin needs to corrupt the Russian people by promoting the idea that “enemies of the people”…
Moscow closed GULAG museum because it doesn’t want a ‘territory of freedom’
Sergey Kovalev, a human rights activist who was once an inmate in the Perm camp memorialized by the…
Political analyst: Putin’s Russia is already ‘a classic fascist state’
Fascism is no longer a threat in Russia, Vitaly Portnikov says; rather, it is “an accomplished fact,” the…
The cancer of cynicism
By Robert van Voren After the Soviet Union disintegrated, gradually a new generation took the lead. Some already…