Portnikov: President Zelenskyy should wake up
It is time for the Ukrainian president to wake up and abandon his dangerous illusions. There is no…
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Portnikov: A big war and the “streams”
The US Senate Committee on International Affairs supported the introduction of sanctions against the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline…
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…
Shevtsova: Kremlin’s ‘obsession’ with Ukraine crippling Russia
The Kremlin’s “obsession” with Ukraine, Lilia Shevtsova, once again this week very much on display in the wake…
Disengagement in Stanytsia Luhanska: path to peace or Ukraine’s further territorial losses?
On 28 June, Ukrainian top Minsk negotiator Leonid Kuchma visited the location to inspect the withdrawal and an…
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…
Stanislav Klykh, heavily tortured Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin, launches hunger strike
Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin Stanislav Klykh has started a hunger strike in a Russian prison, according…
Is Russia’s passport scheme in Donbas a harbinger of full-scale invasion like in 2008 Georgia?
The decision sparked international outrage and indignation. The Ukrainian Ministry of foreign affairs in its statement called Putin's…
Surkov seen remaining in charge of Kremlin policy on Donbas, Abkhazia and South Ossetia
After a media boomlet suggesting Mikhail Babich, the recently recalled Russian ambassador to Minsk, would replace Vladislav Surkov…
Zelenskyi playing on Putin’s fears Ukraine could be an alternative Russia, Kirillova says
Even before his inauguration, incoming Ukrainian president has launched an information war against Moscow, calling on others in…
Ukraine’s economic losses due to Russian occupation of Donbas
Losses of industrial capacities In 2014, the banking sector sustained 53 billion UAH losses ($1.4 billion). Simultaneously, depositors…
Zelenskyi doomed to be Putin’s personal enemy, Portnikov says
Even though the Kremlin wanted Petro Poroshenko to suffer in the recent elections, it did not want an…
Putin’s passport scheme signal of further aggression against Ukraine, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s plan to offer Russian citizenship to anyone in the Russian-occupied portions of the Donbas who wants…
‘Look at us: everything is possible’ – Zelenskyi’s existential challenge to Putinism
Whatever policies he adopts or concessions he makes, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has so challenged Vladimir Putin’s vision of the…
Ukraine has gotten over Russia but Russia hasn’t gotten over Ukraine, Shevtsova says
Russians have been so obsessed with Ukraine for five years to the point of forgetting about their own…
Crimea – not sanctions – real harbinger of demise of Russian Federation, Telegram channel says
A compelling argument can be made that the Soviet Union died when it did and not much later…
Putin, his position shaky, may begin new aggression with nuclear blackmail, Piontkovsky says
Russia is not in a position to engage in an arms race with the United States, Andrey Piontkovsky…
The Kremlin’s hybrid arsenal – an annotated checklist
There are so many aspects to Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid” war against the West that it is remarkably easy…
Russian aggression, documented: How official documents reveal Russia’s involvement in Ukraine
I will run through the main documents that I personally came across in the last few years of…
Five years after Anschluss, US moves toward a formal non-recognition policy on Crimea
US leaders like their EU counterparts since Vladimir Putin invaded and then annexed Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 have…