Western leaders again more afraid of Russian disintegration than of Russian threat, Kasparov says
Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov said many interesting things in the course of his responses to questions from…
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Like Crimea, ‘Trump is Ours,’ Russian products proclaim and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Moscow is trying to destroy the Crimean civic nation, Shtepa says
Even as Moscow seeks to impose a civic national identity on the various nations of the Russian Federation,…
Russia fell apart when its leaders overrated its strength and that could happen again, Inozemtsev says
Twice in the last “long century,” Russia has fallen apart because its leaders overrated the strength of their…
Putin’s most likely next anschluss – a united Ossetia within the Russian Federation
A Georgian political analyst has warned that Vladimir Putin’s most likely Anschluss in the coming year would involve…
The illusory plans for US-Russian reconciliation
Putin is at war with the US, not with Ukraine. And his victory over the US will depend…
The Russian Federation’s disintegration won’t be like the USSR’s, Zhordan says
One of the most superficially compelling arguments of those who insist that the Russian Federation will never fall…
A Trump-Putin deal on Crimea could trigger a much bigger war, Israeli analyst says
Avraam Shmulyevich, a leading Israeli specialist on ethnic issues in the former Soviet space, says that Kyiv might…
With reforms impossible, some Russians predict revolution, Baklanov says
Given that Vladimir Putin has signaled that any serious reforms in the near term are unlikely or even…
Where Russia is already beginning to collapse – the Permafrost Zone in the Far North
The Siberian Times newspaper has called attention to a study showing that the melting of permafrost zone in…
Former Soviet republics must and will become Russia’s ‘protectorates,’ Moscow blogger says
Given loose talk among some in the West about recognizing a Russian sphere of influence over the former…
The Independent published untruthful news on Trump’s meeting with Kissinger
The British newspaper The Independent published an article on a meeting between the President-elect Donald Trump and the…
Putin’s Busy Week
Even as Russian propagandists say that the Kremlin leader was not involved in the Russian doping program, something…
No matter how much Trump may want to, he can’t ‘give’ Ukraine to Putin, Piontkovsky says
“However much he may desire it, no [US president including Donald] Trump can give Ukraine [to Russia]” because…
Russia learned in Aleppo what to do with Ukrainian cities, Moscow TV host says
Most people have been horrified by what Russian and Syrian forces did in Aleppo even if they accept…
The Kissinger effect
New information about the possible involvement of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the development of…
The ugly things Moscow might do if Ukraine is consigned to a Russian sphere of influence
All too many people in the West are casually talking about recognizing Ukraine as lying within a Russian…
The West didn’t ‘betray’ Russia: Russia betrayed its best self
For the past several weeks, many in Russia and the West have been having fun with a Facebook…
In Russia, 7-year old SMS gets you 7 years of prison
In early December, Oksana Sevastidi's undeservingly forgotten story came to the Russian media's attention. In March 2016, the simple…
25 years on, evil empire is less big but no less evil, Yakovenko says
Twenty-five years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev bowed to the inevitable and handed over the nuclear codes to Russian President…