Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and Russian nationalism, Khazanov-Pashkovsky says
The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the…
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Putin elite can’t retain power and property without another war, Pastukhov says
All of the Kremlin’s recent actions -- from a pension reform it didn’t have to carry out now…
Putin’s shift on Skripal case makes a broader war more likely, Pastukhov says
By insisting that Skripal deserved his fate rather than simply denying that Moscow had anything to do with…
Putin actively using Cold War Stasi agent network in Germany, Reitschuster says
Boris Reitschuster, author of Putin’s Secret War, says that the Kremlin is “actively using the old agent network”…
Moscow has complex system to run agents of influence abroad, Khmelnytskyi says
As Moscow’s geopolitical isolation has increased, Dmytro Khmelnytskyi says, the role of its agents of influence abroad and…
Putin’s ‘long game’ consists of a multitude of special ops, Shtepa says
Vladimir Putin is almost universally described as a brilliant political tactician, but if the West is to counter…
Putin’s export of corruption — a key part of his hybrid war against the West, Babchenko says
The post-1945 world order is coming to an end, in no small part because of Vladimir Putin’s successful…
Moscow intensifies its efforts to use Russian emigres to promote Kremlin policies
At least in part because the Bolsheviks came out of emigration to take power, Moscow has long viewed…
Russian-American relations will fundamentally change on February 2, Piontkovsky says
The August 2, 2017 law to counter Russian aggression requires that the Trump Administration identify in a report…
Political murders will continue in Russia because they are useful to Putin, Feygin says
New political murders in Russia are likely because Vladimir Putin needs them as part of his effort to…
Russia earned 3 trillion US dollars from petroleum and stashed abroad over half of that, OilStat analysts say
Russian companies have earned some three trillion US dollars from the sale of oil and gas abroad since…
Car explosion in Kyiv takes life of Ukrainian Colonel; involvement of Russian special services suspected
A bomb that detonated beneath a car on 27 June 2017 near Vul. Mekhanizatoriv 8 in Kyiv took…
Russian diplomats Chisinau expelled reportedly recruited Gagauz to fight in Ukraine
The identification of a pro-Moscow Ukrainian who fought against Kyiv in the first months of Moscow’s war in…
Russia said preparing terrorists to act in Europe – but is unlikely to call them that
Swedish prosecutors say that two of the three suspects in the case of a bombing in Gothenburg (Göteborg)…
Spying is far from the only ‘action incompatible with diplomatic status’
Tallinn has not yet provided an official explanation for its decision to expel two Russian officials from Moscow’s…
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…
Armenia is the Vichy France of today, Khzmalyan says
Armenia now is like Vichy France in the early 1940s, Tigran Khzmalyan says, “an occupied country” governed by…
Demolition of khrushchoby now – a chilling echo of 1999 apartment bombings
Vladimir Putin ensured his rise to power by orchestrating the blowing up of apartment buildings in Moscow and…
Moscow TV propagandist says terrorist attacks in France could still turn the tide for Le Pen
Vladimir Solovyev, a host and commentator on Russia's second largest and state-owned television channel Rossiya-1, said today that “terrorist…
Number of Russian citizens fighting for ISIS in Syria up dramatically in last year
The Kavkaz-Uzel portal has just published a detailed, 20,000-word study about people from Russia’s North Caucasus who are…