Portnikov: Why Putin and Zelenskyy won’t get together
Despite the obvious and oft-expressed desire of the presidents of France and Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelenskyy,…
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Europe fails to see Moscow using economics as a weapon not only against the former Soviet states but against it as well, Tsybulenko says
“In contrast to the countries of the West which are led by the principle, ‘politics is the concentrated…
Piontkovsky: Ukraine is being prepared for disguised surrender to Russia
Q: Perhaps one of the most significant international events of the autumn was the statement of the French…
Portnikov: The goals of Zelenskyy and Putin for the “Big Exchange”
Putin succeeded in securing alleged MH17 accomplice Tsemakh, discrediting the Ukrainian position in the West, and continuing the…
Portnikov: Crimea and the Big Seven
President of the United States Donald Trump talks about the advisability of Russia’s participation in what was called…
Putin has outlasted ‘cowardly and corrupt Western leaders,’ Skobov says
Since the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it has been obvious to all but the blind…
Portnikov: Putin’s return must be resisted
The proposal by US President Donald Trump to return his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to the G8, of…
No stable Ukrainian-Russian peace possible until Putin convicted of war crimes, Shulipa says
Many have been speculating about what steps Russia and Ukraine must make to achieve a stable peace, but…
Portnikov: Kremlin wants Ukraine’s capitulation, Putin expects a “concrete result”
Assistant to the President of Russia, Yuri Ushakov, recently stated that the summit of leaders of the Normandy…
Putin’s nuclear arms blackmail caused a ‘mini-Chornobyl’
When the Chornobyl nuclear accident took place in 1986, the behavior of the Soviet powers that be was…
Putin has created a Fifth International organizing the right, Felshtinsky says
Marx created the First International; Engels established the Second; Lenin, the Third; Trotsky, the Fourth; and now Vladimir…
Portnikov: Putin won’t pity us
The news of the death of another Ukrainian warrior - the victim of a virtual ceasefire between the…
Portnikov: Crimea and the “confrontation of superpowers”
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg linked Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula with the confrontation of superpowers. This…
US non-recognition policy regarding Crimea one year on
A year ago, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo issued its Crimea Declaration which referred to the Welles…
Intermarium countries becoming Ukraine’s main advocates, Portnikov says
Stanisław Karczewski, the Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, has announced plans to convene a…
Ukraine doesn’t have a War Party, only one of Resistance and another of Capitulation, Piontkovsky says
Despite Moscow’s insistence to the contrary and Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s suggestion during presidential campaign that there is a party…
‘We are not a bridge; we are the West,’ a Ukrainian president needs to follow Latvian one in declaring, Portnikov says
More than 20 years ago, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright observed with some bitterness, “whenever I want…
Kremlin’s ‘Mobilization Party’ believes limited nuclear strike would save its power at home and boost Russia’s abroad, Piontkovsky says
A newly coalescing “Mobilization Party” in the Kremlin is convinced that it can only save its own position…
Piontkovsky: To save his regime, Putin preparing to use nuclear weapons convinced West will blink first
“Even the toughest authoritarian regime cannot operate on force alone,” Andrey Piontkovsky says, noting that the collapse of…
Putin regime has set up not one but five ‘fifth columns’ in Germany, Eidman says
In the third article of his series on Moscow’s influence operations in the West, Igor Eidman says that…