Putin said plotting a new refugee crisis to influence EU elections
George Vella, the foreign minister of Malta, says that Vladimir Putin is now seeking to exacerbate the civil…
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How Trump can avoid WWIII
When the US does not want to draw closer to the world, the world draws closer to the…
Plans for a “Great Serbia” and the Kremlin’s hybrid war in the Balkans
Another quite serious escalation may happen in the Balkans. This is an opinion shared by several European and…
How improving relations with Russia threatens world peace
The topic of lifting sanctions against the Russian Federations appears on the international agenda more and more often.…
‘Some damn thing in the Balkans’ again – Putin seeks to exacerbate conflicts there
At the end of the 19th century, Otto von Bismarck prophesied that “some damn thing in the Balkans”…
Three Russian answers to the question ‘Is a Putin-Trump strategic alliance possible?’
Russian analysts are currently split into three distinct groups on the question of whether “a strategic alliance” will…
Putin can’t ‘catch up and surpass West’ — he can only exploit divisions and spread chaos, Yakovenko says
For more than 200 years, Russian leaders were inspired by the idea that their country could “catch up…
What Putin is doing is “hooliganism” at the state level, not struggle for spheres of influence, Portnikov says
Even if Donald Trump or other Western leaders were to recognize a region as lying within Russia’s sphere…
Putin’s special operations achieve a second and larger victory when they are exposed
Many in the US and elsewhere are horrified by Vladimir Putin’s overt and covert efforts to affect the…
Russian special services aren’t the all-powerful agencies many believe, Kirillova says
Many in Russia and the West have come to believe, under the influence of Putin and pro-Putin propaganda…
Western leaders again more afraid of Russian disintegration than of Russian threat, Kasparov says
Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov said many interesting things in the course of his responses to questions from…
The Independent published untruthful news on Trump’s meeting with Kissinger
The British newspaper The Independent published an article on a meeting between the President-elect Donald Trump and the…
No matter how much Trump may want to, he can’t ‘give’ Ukraine to Putin, Piontkovsky says
“However much he may desire it, no [US president including Donald] Trump can give Ukraine [to Russia]” because…
The West didn’t ‘betray’ Russia: Russia betrayed its best self
For the past several weeks, many in Russia and the West have been having fun with a Facebook…
Putin needs a new cold war to stave off the end of the empire, just like Soviet leaders, Karelian says
The Soviet leaders in the 1940s initiated the first cold war to delay the disintegration of their empire;…
Western defeatism vis-à-vis Russia just as unjustified now as it was in 1979
In 1979, many in the West felt that Moscow was winning and Western countries were divided and in…
Debates about Putin now recall those about Hitler in mid-1930s, Ikhlov says
There has been a dramatic increase in the influence of pro-Putin forces in the West in recent months,…
Basis of Putin’s optimism: big US Firms were quite ready to overlook even Stalin’s crimes
A Russian blogger says that the basis of Vladimir Putin’s optimism about a new relationship between Moscow and…
Putin using all means against the West – including Islamist terrorism – Piontkovsky says
Tragically, Andrey Piontkovsky says, Washington does not yet understand that Vladimir Putin is not and will not “struggle…
Robert van Voren: A new history of disasters, or how the world will look in 2019
Imagine 2019. President Trump has been around for three years, bogged down by court cases in connection with…