Russia learned in Aleppo what to do with Ukrainian cities, Moscow TV host says
Most people have been horrified by what Russian and Syrian forces did in Aleppo even if they accept…
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25 years on, evil empire is less big but no less evil, Yakovenko says
Twenty-five years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev bowed to the inevitable and handed over the nuclear codes to Russian President…
Ten types of Russian weapons didn’t work well in Syria, the Russian defense minister says
Russian forces demonstrated their prowess in the destruction of the opponents of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad,…
Robert van Voren: A new history of disasters, or how the world will look in 2019
Imagine 2019. President Trump has been around for three years, bogged down by court cases in connection with…
Even if Minsk is against, Putin may launch new invasion of Ukraine from Belarus, experts say
Even though Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s government would likely be opposed, Vladimir Putin has sufficient leverage over Belarus to use…
Month after US elections ‘most favorable’ time for Moscow to destabilize Ukraine, Illarionov says
Because the United States will be distracted by its elections and their aftermath, Andrey Illarionov says, the next…
“Putin is a Russian Trump” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Putin’s ‘improvised war hysteria’ risks going ‘out of control,’ Shelin says
The militaristic hysteria the Kremlin has unleashed in order to frighten the West and win support at home…
Putin and Russia both far weaker than many think, three analysts say
Vladimir Putin and the country he heads are far weaker than Moscow propaganda suggests and, what is equally…
Putin likely to expand Russian invasion of Ukraine in January, Felgenhauer says
Rumors and fears about the possibility of a third world war between Russia and the West have become…
Russia preparing for war in the media but not in the budget, Moscow commentators say
The Moscow media are filled with stories suggesting that Russia is preparing for war, but a close examination…
World faces crisis like 1952/53 rather than 1914, 1939 or 1962, Piontkovsky says
Leaders, like all other people, typically go through a process whenever confronted with a radical change in the…
No panic from Putin as West still doesn’t recognize nature of his threat to the world, Pavlova says
Many Russian opposition commentators are saying that in the wake of the release of the report showing Moscow’s…
MH17 report may lead Moscow to use military force against Belarus, Minsk analyst says
The reactions to the international report that Russia was behind the shooting down of the Malaysian jetliner have…
Eastern Europe arming itself because ‘no one wants to be the next Ukraine’
In what many are calling “the Putin effect,” countries across Eastern Europe, including even Belarus, nominally Russia’s closest…
NATO won’t do more than express concern, if Putin attacks another former Soviet republic, Illarionov says
If Vladimir Putin sends his forces to seize into any of the former Soviet republics -- including the…
Russia hit problems recruiting for war in Donbas, Tymchuk says
Russia’s military commanders over the "LNR" and "DNR" regimes are increasingly concerned about the inability of the two to recruit…
Putin’s hybrid war objective is to capture effective control, Sazonov says
Many in the West have failed to see that “the main goal” of hybrid war is to change…
No one in the Donbas believes the ceasefire will last
No one in the Donbas believes the ceasefire declared there a week ago will last, and many say…
Kremlin likely to resume its attack on Ukraine under guise of ‘peacekeeping,’ Felgenhauer says
Recent reports about the influx of materiel into the Russian occupied Donbas and increasingly militant rhetoric by DNR…