Putin’s war games on Ukrainian border aimed at Western leaders above all, analysts say
In January 1991, after Soviet soldiers killed 14 Lithuanians in Vilnius, a remarkable political cartoon appeared: It showed…
Browsing Tag
Russian militarism
112 posts
Three more danger signs regarding Putin’s intentions in Ukraine
Whether Vladimir Putin will launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the near future or simply continue to…
The Ordinary Fascism
Note with how much love the [Russian] military propagandists talk about everything that brings death to others. On the 55th…
Scholar: Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate supports repressions, militarism
It would be comforting to believe that Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin was speaking only for himself when he suggested…
Moscow’s Crimean Anschluss taught China it can do the same in Asia, Russian analyst says
The extent to which Vladimir Putin upended the international order by his illegal seizure of Crimea is becoming…
Kyiv commentator: Seven signs NATO has ‘finally come out of its coma’
Some Ukrainians were disappointed that NATO’s Warsaw Summit did not move further toward integrating Ukraine and Georgia into…
Desertions on the rise from Moscow’s hybrid military force in Donbas
Desertions by pro-Moscow mercenaries in the Donbas are increasing, according to Dmytro Tymchuk, head of Ukraine’s Information Resistance Group, a…
Atamanshchina spreading among Russia’s hybrid military force in Ukraine’s Donbas
Atamanshchina is spreading through Moscow hybrid forces in the Donbas, Beness Aijo, a pro-Moscow mercenary has warned. And because…
Luddites of the world coming together to save Putin, Kyiv commentator says
In periods of rapid change, those who were comfortable in the old world inevitably emerge as political force,…
“Reposts are the Soviet anecdotes of today” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘If the Russians come back again, they won’t be constrained by communism’
Some years ago, before he became Estonian president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves observed that “if the Russians come back…
West must again shift from containing Russia’s leaders to defeating them, Pastukhov says
Just as was the case at the beginning of the 1980s, the United States must shift from a…
Putin happy to see refugee crisis unsolved
The refugee question did not only affect the countries surrounding Syria, it has turned into an international issue,…
Kremlin official: Moscow can’t sit by when ethnic Russians are “oppressed and persecuted” in former Soviet republics
Speaking in Russian-occupied Crimea, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko on Friday gave the clearest sign yet that the…
USSR dead? Not in Russia-occupied Crimea!
Did you ever think of what basic reason drives some people in Russia-occupied Crimea to support Putin? No,…
French MP says Ukraine is responsible for invasion
The proposal by French MP Thierry Mariani to impose sanctions against Ukraine for not implementing the Minsk-II agreements…
“How many Putins are there?” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russian Defense Ministry creating a “Youth Army”
As part of its program to restore Soviet-era practices of pre-induction military training, something the LDNR has been…
Putin accelerating his plan for long-term confrontation with the West, Illarionov says
For the last decade, Vladimir Putin has pursued a plan to isolate his country from the outside world…
Russian journalist Valeriy Solovey: What Russians don’t like about Ukrainians
Russian historian and journalist Valeriy Solovey gives a tongue-in-cheek account of what motivates Russian dislike of Ukrainians… or…
