Putin’s passport scheme signal of further aggression against Ukraine, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s plan to offer Russian citizenship to anyone in the Russian-occupied portions of the Donbas who wants…
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‘Look at us: everything is possible’ – Zelenskyi’s existential challenge to Putinism
Whatever policies he adopts or concessions he makes, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has so challenged Vladimir Putin’s vision of the…
Ukraine has gotten over Russia but Russia hasn’t gotten over Ukraine, Shevtsova says
Russians have been so obsessed with Ukraine for five years to the point of forgetting about their own…
Russia’s creeping annexation of Belarus ‘already taking place,’ Juknevičienė says
Most people see annexation as something that occurs once and for all at a particular time; but in…
Piontkovsky: To save his regime, Putin preparing to use nuclear weapons convinced West will blink first
“Even the toughest authoritarian regime cannot operate on force alone,” Andrey Piontkovsky says, noting that the collapse of…
Secretly-prepared constitutional changes will open way to Anschluss of Belarus by Putin, Matskevich says
Vladimir Matskevich, a leading Belarusian thinker and sociologist, says that the Belarusian people must demand the convention of…
Why some segments of Russian society still support Putin
According to a poll by the Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), which was published…
Moscow close to UN recognition that its continental shelf extends far into the Arctic
After almost 20 years of Russian lobbying, a subgroup of the UN Commission on the Limits of the…
Duma votes to require those preparing and distributing foreign news in Russia to have Moscow’s permission
The Duma on first reading has voted to approve amendments to the administrative code that would impose fines…
It’s not just Babich – Russian embassy in Minsk is a subversive organization
Belarusian media have focused on the ways in which Moscow’s ambassador in Minsk, Mikhail Babich, has behaved in…
Russian economy isn’t in crisis: it is in a depression, Shein says
Two out of three Russians (68 percent) tell the Public Opinion Foundation that they believe that their country…
‘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…
Russian interference in Ukrainian elections: separating the wheat from the chaff
Russian narratives against Poroshenko and a strong desire to delegitimize elections It’s clear that Russia cares about Ukrainian…
Trump’s Golan Heights decision unsettles post-Soviet space
US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a region Israeli forces seized…
Russian secret police declassify century-old documents but then block access to them
In a move that perfectly embodies the “hybrid” way the Putin regime does things, the FSB has announced…
Kremlin readying a return to totalitarianism, Ponomaryov and Ikhlov say
All too often, Lev Ponomaryev and Yevgeny Ikhlov warn in a new commentary, observers focus on one or…
Crimea – not sanctions – real harbinger of demise of Russian Federation, Telegram channel says
A compelling argument can be made that the Soviet Union died when it did and not much later…
Putin, his position shaky, may begin new aggression with nuclear blackmail, Piontkovsky says
Russia is not in a position to engage in an arms race with the United States, Andrey Piontkovsky…
Moscow plans to have a million youths in its Youth Army within a year
In a dangerous indication that the militarization of Russian society is occurring rapidly and that this will cast…
Russia’s in the midst of an election campaign – it just happens to be in Ukraine, Kirillova says
Anyone who watches Moscow television would assume the country was in the midst of an election campaign –…