Seeking a diplomatic agreement with Putin is amoral, senseless and dangerous, Russian analysts say
Two of Russia’s more thoughtful analysts, Vladislav Inozemtsev and Aleksandr Skobov, argue in separate commentaries that seeking an…
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Moscow using real neo-Nazis to fight its war in Ukraine, German intelligence concludes
Even though the Kremlin regularly claims that it is fighting Nazism in Ukraine, a claim that is without…
Putin isn’t ‘copying the Nazis’ as some in the West say; he is a Nazi, Skobov says
Some in the West are now beginning to say that Putin and his entourage are “’copying the Nazis,’”…
Medvedev makes it clear the call for genocide against Ukraine came from the Kremlin
When Russian commentator Timofey Sergeytsev published his horrific plan for the destruction of Ukraine and Ukrainians, many in…
Latest from Moscow on Ukraine more frighteningly explicit than even Hitler, Savvin says
Many people of good will in Russia, Ukraine and around the world have been horrified by the recent…
Putin’s ‘Z’ symbol echoes Hitler’s swastika in pointing to a final ‘solution’ of Ukrainian problem, Svanidze says
When future historians examine Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, one of the most curious things they will have…
To ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine, Moscow must impose a brutal generation-long occupation, Novosti journalist says
In vicious language that makes the notorious Morgenthau Plan for Germany in 1945 look like a first draft…
Ideological gulf between Russia and the West far broader than during the Cold War, Skobov says
It is impossible to imagine that Soviet leaders would ever have used the language the Putin regime is…
Only military defeat in Ukraine can stop Putin from pursuing his larger goals, Skobov says
In proposing theses for an open letter condemning Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, Moscow commentator Aleksandr Skobov has…
Russia’s war against covid likely to have consequences like its war against Japan in 1904-1905, El Murid says
For the Putin regime, the war against the coronavirus pandemic is increasingly analogous to the tsarist regime’s war…
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…
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…
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…
Putin has created a Fifth International organizing the right, Felshtinsky says
Marx created the First International; Engels established the Second; Lenin, the Third; Trotsky, the Fourth; and now Vladimir…
‘Any effort to establish a dictatorship in Russia will end with a Stalinist one,’ Ikhlov says
The recent arrests of Russian government officials Abyzov and Ishayev like the earlier ones of Belykh, Ulyukayev and…
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…
Another country where ‘local’ Nazis are a front for Russia – Georgia
“The majority of the leaders of Georgian fascists and neo-Nazis are in one way or another connected with…
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’s Russian world increasingly informed by a Nazi aesthetic, Moscow specialist says
Many commentators have discussed whether Vladimir Putin is a fascist in any serious sense, but most have failed…