Moscow scrambling to fill ranks of its forces in Syria and elsewhere
Russia’s indefensible actions against the civilian population of Aleppo, actions that rise to the level of crimes against…
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Russian occupier of Crimea threatens to repeat one of Stalin’s most barbaric acts in 1944
Natalya Kryzhko, a member of the Russian-organized and imposed “parliament” in occupied Crimea, who is upset by Crimea…
Basis of Putin’s optimism: big US Firms were quite ready to overlook even Stalin’s crimes
A Russian blogger says that the basis of Vladimir Putin’s optimism about a new relationship between Moscow and…
How Putin’s Russia is becoming Stalin’s USSR
When the Kursk submarine sank, Vladimir Putin said a prophetic phrase that probably could be applied to the…
Ukraine and Russia: The end of all illusions
From time to time we hear opinions and statements proclaiming that good neighbourly relations between Ukraine and Russia…
Putin using all means against the West – including Islamist terrorism – Piontkovsky says
Tragically, Andrey Piontkovsky says, Washington does not yet understand that Vladimir Putin is not and will not “struggle…
Why Russia wants Savchenko to negotiate with terrorists
Russia needs the meeting of Nadiya Savchenko with the leading terrorists of the so-called DNR (Donetsk People's Republic)…
Putin wants to do more than to install Trump as US president: he wants to destroy the West
As evidence mounts that Vladimir Putin used a variety of covert means to promote the election of Donald…
Russian poetess: Evil and cruelty deified not condemned in Russia today
In Russia today, the state by celebrating some of the most odious figures in the Russian past is…
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…
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…
Putin’s wars come home to Russia — despite Moscow’s efforts to hide the bodies
Russian combat losses in Ukraine are sufficiently large that they have already had an impact on demographic statistics,…
Moscow analyst: the Kremlin won’t accept Finlandization of Ukraine
The Kremlin’s goals with respect to Ukraine almost certainly preclude any compromise even with the incoming Trump Administration.…
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…
Was Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament a blunder?
By now, it is a well-known story: in the early 1990s, Ukraine surrendered the world’s third largest nuclear…
Ukraine’s missile drills near Crimea
We have become accustomed to the fact that an event is not as important in itself as the…
West must look beyond ‘symptoms’ and deal with the ‘disease’ Putin represents, Borovoy says
Recently, at long last, European and American governments are beginning to respond to and work to counter Russian…
Moscow analyst: Britain’s support for Poland, not Molotov-Ribbentrop, caused WW2, and its backing of Ukraine could trigger WW3
Moscow analyst Yury Mukhin offers an historical analogy which says far more than he intends. In a new…
Putin’s language doesn’t threaten Russia’s neighbors but does threaten Russia, Shchetkina says
The Russian language used by Vladimir Putin -- unlike the language of Pushkin -- “doesn't threaten Russia’s neighbors…
Why Putin is so outraged by Ukrainian missiles
The way that Russia has reacted to the Ukrainian missile training exercises is one more proof of the…