Illarionov offers additional arguments that Putin is planning to attack Saudi Arabia
Yesterday, Andrey Illarionov laid out the logic behind his suggestion that Vladimir Putin is preparing to attack Saudi…
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Putin’s new Cold War is different and far more dangerous, Kyiv paper says
Vladimir Putin has chosen a military strategy which makes the new cold war he has started not only…
‘Star Wars Redux’ – Putin’s fears of losing his nuclear ‘club’ work to Ukraine’s advantage, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s declaration that Moscow will create a nuclear strike force capable of overcoming any anti-ballistic missile system…
Kasparov on the breakup of Russia, invasion of Baltics and end of Putin’s regime
Only if he is facing the complete collapse of his regime, Garry Kasparov says, will Putin consider invading…
Could a Baltic-Black Sea alliance be taking shape?
Most politicians and analysts in both Moscow and the West are so used to considering the countries in…
Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus training fighters for Russian world in special camps
Moscow may or may not get the airbase it wants in Belarus, but the Russian Orthodox Church is…
After Putin, Russia to become even greater threat to Ukraine, Kyiv analyst says
Many Ukrainians and others believe that after Vladimir Putin leaves the scene, Moscow will return Crimea and the…
Terrorist youth camp set up at a Russian Orthodox Monastery near Moscow
A Russian Orthodox monastery outside of Moscow is openly cooperating in a youth indoctrination camp run by one…
Moscow continues to prepare mercenaries for Ukraine
Although the ceasefire in the Donbas appears to be holding for now and although the world’s attention has…
Putin’s push for new base in Belarus – a serious challenge to European security
Russia already has two military facilities in Belarus – a radar site near Baranovichi and a naval communications…
‘Putin will never leave Ukraine in peace,’ commentators say
Vladimir Putin’s new war in Syria has driven Ukraine off the front pages of the world’s press, and…
Belarusians must challenge totalitarian regime ‘because tanks are approaching,’ Lithuanian diplomat says
Zygimaitas Pavilionis, the Lithuanian diplomat responsible for Vilnius’ relations with the EU Eastern Partnership program, says that Belarusians…
Moscow pushing Mensk around on military air base, Belarusian security experts say
The Mensk Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Research says that Moscow has not succeeded in gaining the…
Putin convinced that whatever he does, Obama won’t respond militarily, Borovoy says
Vladimir Putin is acting in Syria as he has in Ukraine on the basis of his conviction that…
‘Russia becoming even more dangerous than it appears,’ Rubtsov says
At the end of Soviet times, some commentators suggested that the USSR was becoming like “Upper Volta with…
67 countries support limiting Russia’s veto powers in UNSC, Ukrainian permanent rep says
Sixty-seven countries, including two permanent members of the UN Security Council (Britain and France), now support the idea…
In Ukraine, General Winter now working against Russia, Felgenhauer says
Russia has often had General Winter as its ally against invaders with mud and cold working against them,…
Ukrainian and Belarusian football fans unite ‘for Your Freedom and Ours’
Few events are more likely to divide people along national or ethnic lines than international football matches, and…
Sacrificing Crimea and Donbas to Russia – no solution for Ukraine or the world
Many people, horrified by the actions of pro-Moscow forces in Crimea and the Donbas or unwilling to continue…
Putin prepares to launch major war sooner rather than later, Felshtinsky says
Given his economic problems at home and Western sanctions over Ukraine, many in the West have convinced themselves…