Baltic-Russian borders today: A reversal of fortune from the First Cold War
Now, once again, barriers are going up between East and West not everywhere but where they are it…
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‘Russia may cut itself off completely from the West,’ Sergey Medvedev says
What is already taking place, the HSE scholar says, is the formation of “a medieval strata-based society” where…
Putin’s essay on Russia and Ukraine about far larger issues than that, Yavlinsky says
That it was a fundamentally imperialist challenge to the existence not just of Ukraine but of all Russia’s…
Putin’s fixation on Ukraine is demagogic, delusional and dangerous
One impression from the lengthy and stylistically incoherent text is that the author is deeply involved with the…
Putin’s new article – ‘ideological justification for a future war,’ Pastukhov says
As such, Putin’s article is a kind of justification for action, “although Putin doesn’t understand this,” the London-based…
Why the West should be paying close attention to Putin’s article
This thinly veiled ode to Pan-Slavism attempts to bind the fate of Russia and Ukraine together in a…
Putin’s penchant for drawing and crossing ‘red lines’
One area where a significant step forward was supposed to be made in Geneva is cybersecurity, and Moscow…
Putin offering Ukraine same deal Stalin offered West Germany in 1952, Piontkovsky says
Adenauer at the time replied that he preferred to remain the chancellor of half of Germany than become…
Information warfare at sea
Not a day goes by without news from the south of Ukraine. Russia has recently deployed all of…
Putin believes only annexing Ukraine will allow Russia to be a superpower without harm to its ethnic Russian core, Eidman says
When Vladimir Putin said during his “Direct Line” broadcast that his “main achievement” lies ahead, he provided a…
Russia prepares for Zapad 2021, keeps heavy armed forces close to Ukraine
On June 2, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Moscow had withdrawn around 10,000 troops from the border…
Strategic corruption: the new hybrid weapon against the West
The use of corruption in furthering a country’s geopolitical interests is the primary technique currently widely used by…
Moscow set to add Baltic countries, Poland, Ukraine and Georgia to list of ‘unfriendly countries’
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov says that Russia is quite prepared to extend the list to include…
Russia’s Armed Forces test combat readiness close to Ukraine’s border
On April 30, Army General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff, said the exercises involved over…
The thorny road to the Kremlin’s desired Yalta-2021
In turn, Western leaders, including US President Joseph Biden and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, have been…
Role of airborne troops in Russia’s military buildup in occupied Crimea
Exactly when the aforementioned units’ deployment to Crimea took place is somewhat hazy. To judge from the various…
Putin failed to achieve his 3 goals in Ukraine because he’s not ready to launch a major war, Polish analyst says
In 2014, Putin used stealth to advance Russian forces toward and into Ukrainian territory; but this time, the…
Amidst seemingly easing tensions, Putin leaves much unsaid in speech to parliament
The first glazed-over item on this list is the sharp escalation of the Ukraine crisis caused by the…
Four lessons learned from Russia’s Ukraine buildup
The world breathed a sigh of relief as Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that Russia would pullback…
Deconstructing Putin: it is time the West learned to be bold
A state in decline is a dangerous thing. An autocrat in decline is even more so. Putin’s provocations…