Five years ago this weekend, the Sochi Olympiad ended with many Russians convinced that it showed Russia had truly recovered as Vladimir Putin promised. But those hopes, Kseniya Kirillova writes, were soon dashed by the doping scandal that...
Many trace the origins of Vladimir Putin’s conviction that the West will ultimately come to accept whatever he does arose not as many think from its reaction to his invasion of Georgia in 2008 but rather from the way it responded...
Yesterday, Vladimir Putin said that despite current problems with stadiums in various parts of Russia, “everything will be done on time and in a quality way” before the 2018 World Cup competition begins. But what he is also...
One of the most important consequences of the current doping scandal, Kseniya Kirillova says, is that it undercuts those who currently like to say that Vladimir Putin was moving in the right direction before he decided to seize Crimea and...
Even though Moscow is facing difficulties financial as well as technical building its bridge to occupied Crimea, there can be little doubt that it will finally build it, according to Pavlo Kazarin, because this bridge, like the Sochi...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
