Read More 4 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion ‘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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 8 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 13 minute read International 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… byKseniya Kirillova
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read Hybrid War International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion ‘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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 13 minute read Ukraine 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… byBohdan Ben
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read Crimea Opinion Russian Aggression 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion Russian Aggression 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International Opinion 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… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression 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 –… byPaul A. Goble