Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with his political opponents. On the one hand, he wants to spread fear among both others who oppose him and the international system as a whole....
Since the beginning of the undeclared Russian-Ukrainian war in early 2014, the secret services of both countries have been key players in the conflict, particularly due to its “hybrid” nature. Covert operations, sabotage and...
Just as some leaders seek to distract attention from their old lies by telling new ones, so the Putin regime regularly commits new crimes so that those who are investigating old ones are often viewed as cranks concerned about what some...
For many, the coronavirus pandemic and the economic turmoil that has led to the collapse of the ruble are the most important events of this week. They are certainly attracting more attention. But for Vladimir Putin, the hearings at the...
The way Minister Avakov communicates is often questionable. “Avakov wrote a post on the detention of the ‘suspects’ of the assassination of Amina Akueva. Why was the message delivered via Facebook and Twitter? Where is...
Since the beginning of November, there have been fake calls claiming that bombs have been planted in the Kyiv metro station forcing police to search for them; since the beginning of 2019, there have been 20 such calls; and since 2014, 200,...
Ukraine’s memorandum comprised 17,500 pages and weighed 90 kilos. A special cart was used to transport the documents: The fundamental reasoning of the Ukrainian case is two-fold: First, to prove that DNR and LNR (Donetsk and Luhansk...
In August 1991, just after the failure of the August Coup that had unsuccessfully tried to save the USSR, and Gorbachev’s comeback to Moscow, The New York Times proclaimed that Russians were ready to undertake “a colossal...
When the arsons began As early as at the night of 6 February 2019, unknown persons set fire to the temple of Oleksiy Karpatoruskyi, belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate and located in Zaporizhzhia in...
At first glance, the attack on the FSB building in Arkhangelsk appears to be but one of a series of similar terrorist acts in the Russian Federation, Natalya Gulevskaya says; but a closer examination of the personality of the criminal, his...
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...
