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Putin’s aggression against Ukraine part of broader effort to destroy international rules of the game and force West to recognize his right to do so, Skobov says

But a consideration of them collectively shows that what Putin is about is not just subordinating Ukraine to…

byPaul A. Goble

World War III: Putin's hybrid war against Western democracies using the Russian secret services, propaganda journalism and corruption of foreign elites.

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Russian Aggression

Advisor to Russian Defense Minister warns of ‘mental war’: who is waging it and against whom?

A particularly telling point made by the Russian military advisor was that, “If in classical wars the goal…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Putin regime “on the road to committing suicide,” Piontkovsky says

Read also: Transfer of Russian military units towards Ukraine’s border to be finished by end of April, –…

byPaul A. Goble

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Opinion

Putin to turn a deaf ear to Biden’s words, Portnikov says

He’s going to act from the position of strength, which involves the use of sanctions and pressure on…

byVitaly Portnikov

Russian soldiers invading Georgia taking photographs by the road sign showing 66 kilometers to the country's capital Tbilisi. August 2008. Photo: Social media

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Kremlin behaving toward Ukraine now the way it did toward Georgia before 2008 invasion, Portnikov says

Moscow’s propaganda campaign against Ukraine and its dislocation of troops near the Ukrainian border echo the propaganda it…

byPaul A. Goble

Official portrait of Vice President, now President, Joe Biden in his West Wing Office at the White House, Jan. 10, 2013. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann).

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Two words that shook Putin’s regime

The resonance in Russia from a short fragment of United States President Joseph Biden’s ABC News interview last…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Pandemic prompting Russia to reaction, isolation, and decay, Shevtsova says

Because of the pandemic, 2020 was “’the year of the Apocalypse” for both Russia and the West, but…

byPaul A. Goble

SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin is interviewed by Dmitry Kiselyov, TV anchor and general director of Rossiya Segodnya (Source: RIA Novosti)

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International

Moscow presents US as sinking into chaos

Four years ago, in November 2016, Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election was celebrated in…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Russia threatens to dispatch weapons to Donbas if U.S. clears military aid package

“I believe that if the United States allocates $300 million for military aid to Ukraine, it will open…

byChristine Chraibi

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Hybrid War

Germany has good chance to secure new EU anti-Russian sanctions for cyberattacks

In July, Germany assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union Council. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German Minister of Defence,…

byBohdan Ben

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Hybrid War

Gas, money laundering, and pizza: report details Russia’s economic meddling in Europe

It is quite natural that the COVID-19 pandemic is drawing all the attention because of its severe social…

byAnatolii Shara

Bulgarian-Ukrainian Rada deputy Anton Kisse (Photo by Vadim Chupryna via wikimedia.org)

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International

Moscow orchestrates controversy between Bulgaria and Ukraine to weaken Kyiv

Last week (May 20), pro-Russian legislative deputies in Bulgaria and pro-Moscow ethnic-Bulgarian politicians in Ukraine protested a decision…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Muscovites celebrating May 9, the Day of Victory in the so-called Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, in 2019. Russia prefers to forget that it started the World War II on the German side in September 1939 by invading and partitioning Poland with Hitler's Germany. (Photo: dsnews.ua)

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Putin moving from ‘Great Victory’ to hostility to entire world – and young Russians are ready to follow him, Ilchenko says

Just as “Crimea is Ours” paled with time as a mobilizing tool, so too Vladimir Putin’s “Great Victory”…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian Navy's Ropucha-class large landing ship going through the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo: twitter.com / @YorukIsik)

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Kyiv and Moscow square off over legal arrangements for the Black Sea

Moscow’s continuing efforts to reduce the Black Sea to the status of a de facto Russian lake (see…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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A compromise with Russia that respects core Western principles is an illusion – James Sherr

Six years after Russia annexed Crimea, a number of articulate and influential people in the West have become…

byThe Insider

E40 waterway is to go through Poland, Belarus and Ukraine and to connect the Baltic and the Black Seas

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West, Russia face off in Belarus over Baltic–Black Sea waterway project

Plans for a new Baltic–Black Sea waterway, passing through Ukraine, Belarus and Poland, have the potential to revolutionize…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Key figure in Boeing MH17 shootdown identified as deputy head of Russia’s FSB Border Service

Just as some leaders seek to distract attention from their old lies by telling new ones, so the…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian Navy's Ropucha-class large landing ship going through the Bosporus Strait. Istanbul, Turkey, 2014 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Moscow worried about Ankara’s plans for canal bypassing Bosporus Strait

In early March 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Ankara would soon call for bids on…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Research reveals how Russia-linked social media accounts targeted 2020 US elections

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Hybrid War

Research reveals how Russia-linked social media accounts targeted 2020 US elections

The research comes from professor Young Mie Kim of the University of Wisconsin, who started analyzing posts on…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Intermarium countries can no longer count on West to defend them against Russia, Honcharenko says

The countries between Russia and Old Europe lying between the Baltic and Black Seas can no longer count…

byPaul A. Goble

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