Russian army put on war footing
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Is Moldova’s apparent defeat Kremlin’s blueprint for Ukraine?
What Moscow has done in Moldova, the de facto confederalization of that country and its division between eastern…
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…
Why the slow-burning Russo-Ukrainian war suddenly has gotten much hotter
A UN agency says the number of civilians who died as a result of the fighting in the…
“Russian troops not terrorists killed Beslan hostages” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
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,…
‘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…
Kremlin reads the West wrong but the West is beginning to read Russia right, Shevtsova says
The Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine and its challenging actions toward NATO ships and plane are based on its…
Putin’s nuclear brinkmanship betrays his military’s backwardness, Felgenhauer says
Vladimir Putin has revived nuclear brinkmanship as a method of statecraft because the Russian military is so far…
Why Latgale unlikely to trigger World War III
A year ago, many were thinking that Narva in Estonia might be the flashpoint that would ignite World…
Putin, trapped between war and revolution, will choose war, Ikhlov says
There are two possibilities in Russia today: either Vladimir Putin is in control of events or he is…
Moscow laying groundwork for another invasion of Georgia
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement this week that ISIS is using Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge as a base…
Putin heats the water hotter for the frog
Many are expecting that the conclusion of the British judicial investigation into the murder of Aleksandr Litvinenko that…
Moscow media portraying Belarus as ‘enemy and aggressor,’ Oreshkin says
The Moscow media has been filled in recent weeks with a flood of publications portraying Belarus as an…
Beware of Russian Cyber Warfare in 2016
So what was Russia up to in 2015 beyond its continuing war in Ukraine, capturing the Donetsk airport…
One fifth of Russia’s hybrid “DNR/LNR” force in Ukraine are regular Russian Army troops – Ukrainian MoD (Infographic)
During the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin many times denied the presence of Russian armed forces…
Did Putin occupy Crimea for same reason Stalin deported Crimean Tatars?
Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars and other Turkic peoples from the southern portions of the USSR because he…
Putin has brought the world to ‘the brink of war,’ Gazeta Wyborcza says
By his orders to the Russian army to respond “harshly” to any challenge to them in Syria, Vladimir…
RISI article suggests new Russian attacks in Ukraine likely in near future, Kirillova says
At the end of November, an article by Andrey Vadzhra for the influential Russian Institute for Strategic Investigations…
Russia with current borders and values will remain a threat to Ukraine, Europe and itself, Portnikov says
The fact that only 3% of Russians say that Crimea should be part of Ukraine shows that Ukraine’s…