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Aftermath of the Russian attack on civilians in Odesa, 18 November.

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Russian missile kills eight in Odesa after Scholz-Putin diplomatic talk

The attack on civilians in Odesa, which killed 8 and injured 39 people, was named “not a random but a demonstrative strike" by Ukrainian President Zelenskyy as it followed a diplomatic dialogue between German Chancellor Scholz and Putin.

byVira Kravchuk

Exhumation of a mass grave with bodies of Ukrainian civilians tortured and murdered in cold blood by Russian troops in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast. April 2022. Photo: open source

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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…

byPaul A. Goble

Results of the United Nations vote to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 2 March 2022 (Photo: UN)

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141 to 5 – the measure of Russia’s isolation as a result of Putin’s war

Never before has Moscow been so internationally isolated as now. At the United Nations General Assembly, 141 of…

byPaul A. Goble

Stalin supervising the signing of the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact dividing Poland between Hitler's regime and his own, Aug 23, 1939. From left to right: Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Minister of Foreign Affairs; Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (sitting); Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator; Vladimir Pavlov, First Secretary of the Soviet embassy in Germany (Image: TASS)

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Black is white, freedom is slavery, and Stalin’s invasion of Poland was ‘a liberation campaign,’ Russian Foreign Ministry says

In Putin’s increasingly Orwellian approach to the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry on the anniversary of the introduction…

byPaul A. Goble

The Great Embassy of Ivan IV (1530-84) of Muscovy (also known as Ivan the Terrible) to the Holy Roman Emperor at Regensburg in 1576 (Image: colored woodcut, detail, Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France via Wikipedia)

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister reminded his Russian counterpart what Russia was called until the 18th century

“Minister Lavrov got lost in the three pine trees of Russian history. Until the 18th century, his state…

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Russian special services in the US (Source: RFE/RL Graphics)

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Moscow seized control of Russian émigré group in US to promote Kremlin policies in Ukraine

In fact, the FBI did speak with some members of the group; but it did not move to…

byPaul A. Goble

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Strategic corruption: the new hybrid weapon against the West

The use of corruption in furthering a country’s geopolitical interests is the primary technique currently widely used by…

byYaroslav Bozhko

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Moscow set to add Baltic countries, Poland, Ukraine and Georgia to list of ‘unfriendly countries’

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov says that Russia is quite prepared to extend the list to include…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukraine ready to send experts to Sarajevo to examine 300-year-old icon from Luhansk

During the meeting, Kyrylych underlined that Ukraine had never given official permission for the export of any icon.…

byChristine Chraibi

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Ukrainian icon stolen from Luhansk and brought to Bosnia & Herzegovina by Serbian veterans, says Republika Srpska MP

The icon of St. Nicholas, presented to Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, was brought to Bosnia…

byChristine Chraibi

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Bosnian Serb Chairman Dodik presents Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov with 300-year-old Ukrainian icon

During his two-day visit to Bosnia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov received a 300-year-old gilded icon originating from…

byChristine Chraibi

Russian Navy's Ropucha-class large landing ship going through the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo: twitter.com / @YorukIsik)

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Kyiv and Moscow square off over legal arrangements for the Black Sea

Moscow’s continuing efforts to reduce the Black Sea to the status of a de facto Russian lake (see…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

E40 waterway is to go through Poland, Belarus and Ukraine and to connect the Baltic and the Black Seas

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West, Russia face off in Belarus over Baltic–Black Sea waterway project

Plans for a new Baltic–Black Sea waterway, passing through Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, have the potential to revolutionize…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Russian Navy's Ropucha-class large landing ship going through the Bosporus Strait. Istanbul, Turkey, 2014 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Moscow worried about Ankara’s plans for canal bypassing Bosporus Strait

In early March 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Ankara would soon call for bids on…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Putin and Zelenskyy at the December 2019 meeting of the Normandy format leaders in Paris, France

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Portnikov: Next Normandy Four summit won’t be soon

Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vadym Prystaiko expresses doubts about the possibility of holding a summit of the Normandy…

byVitaly Portnikov

Munich Agreement. Left to right: Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini & Count Galeazzo Ciano meeting in Munich, September, 1938.

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Upcoming Paris meeting on Ukraine threatens to become a new Munich, Piontkovsky says

Two days ago, Aleksey Chesnakov, a Moscow commentator known for his close ties to the Kremlin and opposition…

byPaul A. Goble

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Putin’s ‘long game’ consists of a multitude of special ops, Shtepa says

Vladimir Putin is almost universally described as a brilliant political tactician, but if the West is to counter…

byPaul A. Goble

fake diplomatic missions in Europe, now in France

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Kremlin-run “DNR” opens fake diplomatic mission in France. Are Nordic countries next?

On 25 September Hubert Fayard, a small right-wing French political party known as the National Center of Independents…

byYuri Zoria

A line for US visas at the US General Consulate in Yekaterinburg. From 1 September 2017, issuance of US visas has been limited to the Moscow consulate. (Image: afterempire.com)

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Russian campaign against US consulate in Yekaterinburg has long history, Kirillova says

In response to the closing of the Russian consulate in San Francisco and of two trade representations in…

byPaul A. Goble

An armed personnel carrier full of mercenaries from Russia in the Donbas, Ukraine (Image: inforesist.org)

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Russian diplomats Chisinau expelled reportedly recruited Gagauz to fight in Ukraine

The identification of a pro-Moscow Ukrainian who fought against Kyiv in the first months of Moscow’s war in…

byPaul A. Goble