Global sanctions and their impact on the Russian economy and society can become a major factor that will force the Russian government to end hostilities, regardless of the risks such a move may entail. War is a total waste of a...
On the Donbas battlefields, Russian troops still strive to advance, but in the global arena of confrontation with the collective West, Russia keeps losing ground. A sequence of heavy blows breached Russian defensive geopolitical positions...
Russia’s ultra-rich elite and business community are starting to feel the heat from harsh international sanctions imposed by the United States and Europe. Since President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine, Russian...
For four reasons, the Russian economy is on the brink of panic, something that threatens stock prices, ruble exchange rates and indeed all economic activity because it introduces elements of uncertainty that no one involved can afford to...
The logic of the sanctions regime the West imposed on Moscow after Putin seized Ukraine’s Crimea was not only to underscore its opposition to this blatant violation of international law but also to raise the price on Moscow of...
Two out of three Russians (68 percent) tell the Public Opinion Foundation that they believe that their country is in the midst of an economic crisis, four percent more this year than last. And only one in twelve (eight percent) believe...
In the course of his current debate with economist Andrey Illarionov, social commentator Igor Klyamkin makes an important point that is all too often overlooked in Russia and elsewhere: authoritarian modernization is an increasingly...
Vladimir Putin may not have been able to use the 2018 FIFA World Cup to distract Russians sufficiently to prevent them from protesting rising gas prices and plans to increase taxes and the retirement age; but he has achieved one thing:...
The independent Moscow newspaper Novyye izvestiya points out that the average pay in Estonia is now “about 1800 euros” while in Russia, despite all its natural resources, it stands at “about 500 euros” –...
One of the many debates that riled Western studies of the Soviet Union concerned whether that system could ever be reformed or would have to be destroyed and then replaced with something else. Some political analysts insisted that of...
In August 2022, CBS released its documentary on military aid to Ukraine, filmed in April. The film claims that a major portion of Western military help goes missing in Ukraine but provides no proof other than short remarks from one...
