Read More 3 minute read International More Russian forces using Hamas-style terrorist tactics in Ukraine, Portnikov says Russian forces in Ukraine are now using one of the most beloved tactics of terrorist groups like the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Increased terrorism against Ukraine more likely than a conventional aggression by Moscow, Bezsmertnyi says Moscow is unlikely to launch a conventional military attack against Ukraine in the near term, according to Roman… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More ‘Who are the anonymous people terrorizing those who criticize Putin?’ As disturbing as the Putin regime’s abuse of the Russian legal system to go after its online critics,… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Putin’s method to prevent terrorism at Sochi Games backfiring now in Middle East and Caucasus Vladimir Putin received enormous credit for preventing any terrorist incidents from interfering with the 2014 Sochi Olympics, but… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Whatever happened to the Kharkiv Partisans? For over a year Russian propaganda pushed the story of an anti-Ukrainian “resistance” movement in Kharkiv. This guerrilla… byAlex Leonor
Read More 3 minute read Crimea More The War comes to Kherson Yesterday morning a grenade exploded at an office of the Crimean Tatar Majlis organization in Kherson in Southern… byAlex Leonor
Read More 3 minute read International More Litvinenko murder was ‘act of nuclear terrorism,’ his widow reminds the world As the defenders of Vladimir Putin do everything they can to muddy the waters about his role in… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read War in Donbas Evidence found that occupied Donbas produces Grad-P rocket launchers for Islamic State More evidence of direct links between Russia and Islamic State have been discovered. The coordinator of the Information… byKseniya Kirillova
Read More 2 minute read Crimea International More Troubling questions about Putin: Is he sick? And is he getting rid of witnesses? In the dies non that exists in Russia over the country’s long winter holidays, two uncomfortable and potentially… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Moscow in Syria is to undermine West, not to support Assad, Belarusian experts say Moscow’s primary goal in Syria is not to support its ally Bashar Assad against all challenges but rather… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Young Russians flow en masse to fight for Islamists in Syria and Iraq, Moscow expert says There are thousands more citizens of the Russian Federation fighting on the side of the Islamists in the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Archive Putin ‘played no less role’ in creation of ISIS than Stalin did in rise of Nazis, Shmulyevich says Vladimir Putin should be compared with Stalin rather than with Hitler, Avraam Shmulyevich says, not only because he… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Putin appears preparing to attack Saudi Arabia and Qatar next, Illarionov says Events of recent days may have obscured what is the most important development of all: Vladimir Putin appears… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read More Moscow chief beneficiary of Paris terrorist attacks, Ukrainian security analysts say While there is as yet no direct evidence of Moscow’s complicity in the Paris terrorist attacks – and… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Ethnic Russians converting to radical Islam and recruited to ISIS in Russian prisons, Silantyev says At least ten percent of the ethnic Russians in the Russian Federation who have converted to Islam over… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International Is Putin about to use Sinai plane disaster as he did apartment bombings in 1999? Andrey Illarionov says that recent statements by Vladimir Putin suggest that the Kremlin leader may be about to… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International More War in Donbas Moscow now emphasizing subversion over direct aggression in Ukraine, Kyiv analyst says No one should conclude that the current lull in the fighting in the Donbas marks the end of… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read International More Moscow-created ‘illusory Maidan’ in Mensk to set stage for Russian intervention, Kirillova says Russia is currently seeking to raise the prospect of an “illusory” Maidan in Belarus to set the stage… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Ex-terrorist leader: only an idiot will deny that “republics” in Donbas are a Kremlin creation Igor Girkin, ex-minister of defense of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” has once again publicly contradicted Russia’s official denials of… byAlya Shandra
Read More 2 minute read International More Saakashvili’s presence makes Odesa likely target of Russian provocations, Kirillova says Many have suggested that Moscow will move against Odesa or Kharkiv lest any effort to create a Russian… byPaul A. Goble