On historical unity in a prison of nations: Ukraine’s Institute of National Remembrance Head strikes back at Putin
For decades, Vladimir Putin has been working diligently on his international image. He believes it is not enough…
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‘Russia may cut itself off completely from the West,’ Sergey Medvedev says
What is already taking place, the HSE scholar says, is the formation of “a medieval strata-based society” where…
If anyone wrote Russian history the way Putin writes Ukraine’s, Putin would be outraged, Travin says
The European University specialist says that he will leave to others a critical appraisal of Putin’s words about…
Putin’s essay on Russia and Ukraine about far larger issues than that, Yavlinsky says
That it was a fundamentally imperialist challenge to the existence not just of Ukraine but of all Russia’s…
Putin’s tale about unity of Russians and Ukrainians prompts Kazan scholar to speak about real unity of Turkic peoples
“Historically,” Khakimov says, “the Turkic peoples formed on the territory of the Turkic khanate … extending from the…
Putin’s fixation on Ukraine is demagogic, delusional and dangerous
One impression from the lengthy and stylistically incoherent text is that the author is deeply involved with the…
The Arctic Ocean was once the Tatar Sea, Khakimov says
They have managed to convince many that the Volga is a Russian rather than a Tatar river and…
Putin’s new article – ‘ideological justification for a future war,’ Pastukhov says
As such, Putin’s article is a kind of justification for action, “although Putin doesn’t understand this,” the London-based…
Why the West should be paying close attention to Putin’s article
This thinly veiled ode to Pan-Slavism attempts to bind the fate of Russia and Ukraine together in a…
Alternative history: how Russia seeks to annex Kyivan Rus
"For the Kremlin, history is not something to be studied and remembered. It is something that must be…
Vitaly Portnikov: For Putin, Ukraine does not and will never exist
One of Vladimir Putin’s final statements in his long article is that the “true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible…
Disinformation on the UN Charter as a tool of Russian imperialism
Other false claims concern “UN bias” and the UN as a “channel for Russophobia.” Still, the UN Charter…
Putin believes only annexing Ukraine will allow Russia to be a superpower without harm to its ethnic Russian core, Eidman says
When Vladimir Putin said during his “Direct Line” broadcast that his “main achievement” lies ahead, he provided a…
Moscow’s effort to isolate Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia from Finno-Ugric world proves less than fully successful
That effort was described by Prague-based commentator Vadim Sidorov as an effort to erect a new “iron curtain”…
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…
Russia closing off more of Black Sea even as it pulls its land forces back from Ukrainian border
Russia may be extending its control over the Black Sea at the very moment Moscow is being praised…
Putin’s aggression against Ukraine part of broader effort to destroy international rules of the game and force West to recognize his right to do so, Skobov says
But a consideration of them collectively shows that what Putin is about is not just subordinating Ukraine to…
Advisor to Russian Defense Minister warns of ‘mental war’: who is waging it and against whom?
A particularly telling point made by the Russian military advisor was that, “If in classical wars the goal…
Kremlin behaving toward Ukraine now the way it did toward Georgia before 2008 invasion, Portnikov says
Moscow’s propaganda campaign against Ukraine and its dislocation of troops near the Ukrainian border echo the propaganda it…
Putin claims right to territories of former Soviet republics
Speaking to a meeting on the seventh anniversary of his Anschluss of Crimea, Vladimir Putin said that the…