Putin wants to do more than to install Trump as US president: he wants to destroy the West
As evidence mounts that Vladimir Putin used a variety of covert means to promote the election of Donald…
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Putinism isn’t the Brezhnevism of today: it’s far more dangerous and vigorous, Pavlova says
It is fashionable to compare the Putin regime of today with that of Leonid Brezhnev, but such comparisons…
A guide to Russian propaganda. Part 3: Rapid fire conspiracy theories
One of the ways Russia achieves national goals is by creating falsifications and conspiracy theories. When Russia wants…
Weakness not strength behind Putin’s new doctrine for broader information war abroad and at home
The new doctrine on information security Vladimir Putin signed this week shows that the Kremlin leader is gearing…
Moscow analyst: the Kremlin won’t accept Finlandization of Ukraine
The Kremlin’s goals with respect to Ukraine almost certainly preclude any compromise even with the incoming Trump Administration.…
West must look beyond ‘symptoms’ and deal with the ‘disease’ Putin represents, Borovoy says
Recently, at long last, European and American governments are beginning to respond to and work to counter Russian…
Moscow analyst: Britain’s support for Poland, not Molotov-Ribbentrop, caused WW2, and its backing of Ukraine could trigger WW3
Moscow analyst Yury Mukhin offers an historical analogy which says far more than he intends. In a new…
Serbian nationalists on Moscow’s service
On 26 April 2013, the square in front of the Serbian parliament in central Belgrade was full of…
Putinism – a greater threat to the West than Soviet communism was
Putinism, as ideology and practice, is now a greater threat to the West than Soviet communism ever was,…
Trump Revolution: From Russia With Revenge
Last week the Washington Post Deputy Editorial Director Jackson Diehl published an article titled "Putin's hope to ignite Eurasia-style protests in the…
Analysts: Russia today far more dangerous than USSR was and West far less ready to counter it
Russia under Vladimir Putin is far more dangerous to the West than the Soviet Union ever was, two…
With Tsar Bell that never rang and Tsar Cannon that never fired, what might one expect of Moscow’s bomb shelters?
The Russian government has proudly announced that it has bomb shelters for all Muscovites in the event of…
Putin’s plutonium threat ‘tactically clever but strategically disastrous,’ Solovey says
Vladimir Putin’s ultimatum to the West over the plutonium issue may be “tactically clever” on his part largely…
Putin making the same mistake Hitler did, Piontkovsky says
After meeting with the leaders of Britain and France, Adolf Hitler concluded that he was dealing with non-entities…
NATO won’t do more than express concern, if Putin attacks another former Soviet republic, Illarionov says
If Vladimir Putin sends his forces to seize into any of the former Soviet republics -- including the…
Putin has launched ‘world war against trust,’ Yakovenko says
US President Barack Obama put his finger on what Vladimir Putin is about when he said after his…
Americans finally starting to recognize how odious Putin really is, Nemets says
August, the month of vacations, is often referred to as the silly season in the media; but this…
Moscow set to exploit its infiltration of US politics long after November
Most Western commentators have focused on the ways in which Vladimir Putin is seeking to use his agents…
Trump is Putin’s ‘most useful idiot’ because he believes what he says, Piontkovsky says
Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for US president, is Vladimir Putin’s “most useful idiot” not because he is…
Russian army put on war footing
European media and politics are very busy this summer: Brexit, terror attacks in France and Germany, the Turkish…