Russia supplying North Korea with ever more coal and oil, Moscow business paper says
In the face of Western efforts to isolate North Korea, Russia has almost doubled its sales of coal…
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Russia opens shipping route between Vladivostok and North Korea
Ignoring US calls for isolating North Korea in order to force Pyongyang to rein in its nuclear program,…
Why Putin can’t allow Ukraine to succeed and why the West must make sure it does
In the course of a wide-ranging discussion in advance of the release of his new book on Russia…
No one denies Soviet Army defeated Hitler but Russians won’t admit it occupied those it liberated, Tatyana Ross says
For Russians, Victory Day is an ever more important date; but they act as if May 9 was…
Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or even enough
Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the…
Putin’s failure to attract CIS leaders to Victory parade marks shift from post-Soviet era to Russian world, Dubnov says
Only one leader of another former Soviet republic, Moldova’s Igor Dodon, joined Vladimir Putin for Moscow’s Victory Day…
Moscow TV propagandist says terrorist attacks in France could still turn the tide for Le Pen
Vladimir Solovyev, a host and commentator on Russia's second largest and state-owned television channel Rossiya-1, said today that “terrorist…
West fails to recognize nature and scope of Putin’s hybrid war against it, Eidman says
Many in the West have “the wrong idea about how the Russian manipulation machine works,” Igor Eidman says,…
Behaving badly on big things and small core of Russia’s national strategy under Putin
From making world leaders wait for meetings to mafia-like language from its leaders and diplomats to flouting international…
A Russian propaganda site incites breaking up Baltic countries
Arguing that the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are more russophobic than any other nation in the world, the…
New Threats Require a New Response: What the Baltic Countries and the US Face in Putin’s Russia
By Paul A. Goble, Institute of World Politics Testimony Prepared for a Hearing on US Policy toward…
Putin’s ‘secret weapon’ against the West – massive illegal cash hordes in foreign countries
The Russian economy is small relative to that of Europe or the United States. It military is hardly…
Russian propaganda exploits German feeling guilt for attacking USSR – Yuriy Durkot
Since Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, Ukrainian journalist, publicist and translator Yuriy Durkot has been developing Ukrainian-German…
‘The Samantha syndrome’ – a new name for an old threat Putin is exploiting
The Stockholm syndrome, the situation in which a captive begins to identify with his or her captors, is…
Putin’s ‘real but Pyrrhic victory’: infecting the world with distrust and division
Vladimir Putin has achieved a real but Pyrrhic victory with his policy of hybridity: domestically - by transforming…
Putin’s Russia pursuing ‘survival by paradox,’ Shevtsova says
Putin’s Russia is “a unique case” in which a country is surviving by paradox, Brookings Institution analyst Lilia…
Russia’s interest in Libya
While US President Donald Trump is doing its best to prove that Russia is going to become a…
Putin, like Trump, being pressed to take harder line abroad to shore up his own position, Piontkovsky says
Donald Trump, as the scandal about the multiple and continuing contacts between his team and Moscow grows, has…
Flynngate reflects Putin’s penchant for high-risk counterproductive actions, Khzmalyan says
The growing scandal in Washington around Moscow’s efforts to penetrate and influence the Trump Administration recalls the FSB’s…
Like Hitler, Putin told the West in advance what he’d do – and the West ignored him
Ten years ago this week, Vladimir Putin told the Munich Security Conference exactly what he intended to do…