Putin listening to both “party of war” and “party of peace” within his regime, Felgenhauer says
Vladimir Putin is listening both to “a peace party” within his administration and “a war party,” responding positively…
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Trump may negotiate with Putin for the same reasons he’s talking with Kim Jong-Un, Novoye Voennoye Obozreniye suggests
The editors of Novoye voyennoye obozreniye, the military affairs supplement to Nezavisimaya gazeta, suggest that the trajectory of…
Moscow’s development of poisons like one used against Skripal has long history and dark shadow
Felix Kubin, a Russian who defected to the US in 2013, says that he was approached before that…
Putin may not get a new Yalta but face a new Star Wars program, Pastukhov says
Vladimir Putin’s address yesterday was primarily directed at his domestic audience which wouldn’t have believed him if he…
Northern Kazakhstan likely to be Putin’s next target for aggression
Given that Vladimir Putin very much hopes to get a new political boost like the one he received…
Putin’s preparations for war reflect total bankruptcy of his system, Melnikov says
Recent days have featured a drumbeat of developments suggesting Russia is preparing for war: Moscow has boosted its…
FSB may be well pleased with Zapad-2017 outcome, Belarusian analysts say
The Zapad-2017 military exercise has ended “without the annexation of Belarus, a new round of aggression against Ukraine,…
Zapad-2017 – anything but a joint Russian-Belarusian exercise, Sivitsky says
Moscow has advertised Zapad-2017 as a joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise, but it is anything but as it includes…
The revolution looming in Russia will be more like 1917 than like 1991, Pastukhov says
Twenty years before the Great French Revolution broke out in 1789, Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son that…
Baltic past and present successes explain Moscow’s schizophrenic propaganda response
Russian propaganda about the Baltic countries insists that they are marginal, but the amount of that Moscow effort…
‘Alternatives to revolution in Putin’s Russia are not elections but more wars,’ Eidman says
Last week, Pskov parliamentarian Lev Shlosberg argued that the only alternative to revolution in the Russia of Vladimir…
Is it beginning in Belarus? ‘Little green men’ appear alongside Russian troops in Vitebsk
A man from the Belarusian city of Vitebsk, a city not far from the Russian border, has posted…
Russia joins Iran and North Korea on US ‘axis of evil’ list, Kommersant says
In his State of the Union address in January 2002, then-US President George W. Bush said Iran, Iraq…
Putin’s Donbas tactics won’t work in Baltic countries for economic reasons, Ilves says
Moscow won’t be able to use “the Russian speaking diaspora” in Estonia and other Baltic countries as it…
Russia needs the US as an enemy and as a supporter, Shevtsova says
During Mikhail Gorbachev’s first visit to Washington, Georgy Arbatov, the Soviet Union’s leading Americanist who was accompanying him,…
The real reason the Kremlin will never completely disown the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
For Moscow, the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols which divided Eastern Europe between Hitler and Stalin…
Belarus not threatened by a Ukrainian scenario: It has its own ‘little green men,’ Ukrainian analyst says
Belarus is not currently threatened by a Russian action like the one Moscow has carried out in Ukraine…
Ukraine ramps up fight against Russia’s hybrid war
Hybrid war has been a buzzword surrounding Ukraine for more than three years. But the country has dealt…
‘Molotov is alive and looking for a new Ribbentrop,’ Lithuanian foreign minister says
Speaking in Bratislava yesterday, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said that “Molotov is alive and looking for a…
Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or even enough
Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the…