If the leader of any other country proposed new citizenship legislation that would give his government the power to award national citizenship to anyone living in areas his or her country might occupy in the future, there would be...
Russia is shuttling residents of its statelets in eastern Ukraine to vote for the constitutional amendments set to prolong the power of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian passport holders who wish to go will be able to take a...
The decision sparked international outrage and indignation. The Ukrainian Ministry of foreign affairs in its statement called Putin’s decision “one more deliberate step towards demolishing the Minsk Agreements,” “a...
In late April, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a simplified procedure allowing residents of the so-called “DNR/LNR republics” to obtain Russian passports. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called this...
Vladimir Putin’s decision to offer Russian citizenship to those living in Russian-occupied portions of Ukraine and possibly others as well may be intended not only to extend Russian power over that country further but also to help...
Vladimir Putin’s plan to offer Russian citizenship to anyone in the Russian-occupied portions of the Donbas who wants it is designed to transform those regions into a Moscow protectorate and set the stage for further Russian...
Even as Vladimir Putin decreed that Moscow recognizes documents issued by its clients the “Donetsk Peoples Republic” and the “Luhansk Peoples Republic,” Russian officials in at least seven places in the Donbas are...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
