Three important lessons of the Skripal Case the West has yet to learn
There now can be little doubt that Moscow and the Russian security services were behind the poisoning of…
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Russia, not China, violating sanctions regime against North Korea, Nemets says
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at China for violating sanctions regime against North Korea, Aleksandr Nemets…
Russia is preparing for big war and with each new conflict increases its capabilities, Shmulyevich says
The best explanation for Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Syria has been the improvement of the capabilities of the…
Putin’s export of corruption — a key part of his hybrid war against the West, Babchenko says
The post-1945 world order is coming to an end, in no small part because of Vladimir Putin’s successful…
Putin’s preparations for war reflect total bankruptcy of his system, Melnikov says
Recent days have featured a drumbeat of developments suggesting Russia is preparing for war: Moscow has boosted its…
Russian info war against US, far broader than last year’s elections, an act of terrorism, Latynina says
Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again acceptance of Vladimir Putin’s claim that Moscow didn’t interfere in the 2016 US presidential…
Russian-American relations will fundamentally change on February 2, Piontkovsky says
The August 2, 2017 law to counter Russian aggression requires that the Trump Administration identify in a report…
Moscow analyst: Russia has made North Korea’s rocket program possible
In two articles published online this week, Moscow analyst Aleksandr Nemets details the evidence many have assembled showing…
Baltic past and present successes explain Moscow’s schizophrenic propaganda response
Russian propaganda about the Baltic countries insists that they are marginal, but the amount of that Moscow effort…
Arms race, on top of sanctions, destroyed the USSR and will destroy Russia
Vladimir Putin’s plans to spend more money on rearmament is “a squandering of valuable natural and labor resources,…
Russia joins Iran and North Korea on US ‘axis of evil’ list, Kommersant says
In his State of the Union address in January 2002, then-US President George W. Bush said Iran, Iraq…
Russia needs the US as an enemy and as a supporter, Shevtsova says
During Mikhail Gorbachev’s first visit to Washington, Georgy Arbatov, the Soviet Union’s leading Americanist who was accompanying him,…
When a Western leader spoke the truth to Putin — and Putin couldn’t take it
Even Western leaders who are distinguished by the boldness of their statements on other issues appear reluctant to…
Russia earned 3 trillion US dollars from petroleum and stashed abroad over half of that, OilStat analysts say
Russian companies have earned some three trillion US dollars from the sale of oil and gas abroad since…
Ukraine ramps up fight against Russia’s hybrid war
Hybrid war has been a buzzword surrounding Ukraine for more than three years. But the country has dealt…
Russia said preparing terrorists to act in Europe – but is unlikely to call them that
Swedish prosecutors say that two of the three suspects in the case of a bombing in Gothenburg (Göteborg)…
Putin’s ‘magic’ has disappeared like Cinderella’s coach, Golts says
Like Cinderella’s coach at the stroke of midnight, Vladimir Putin’s “magic,” his “negative charm, no longer works” as…
Not ‘constrained by communism’ – Why Putin is a greater threat than Brezhnev ever was
Some years ago, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who later became president of Estonia, suggested that “if the Russians were…
‘It’s the policies, stupid!’
In 1992, James Carvill, the chief strategist for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, told Democratic Party activists that they…
Moscow heavily involved with ISIS and other terrorist groups, Ukraine tells NATO
In the not so distant past, the United States government would have taken the lead in exposing Russian…
