Putin “played no less role” in creation of ISIS than Stalin did in rise of Nazis, Shmulyevich says
Vladimir Putin should be compared with Stalin rather than with Hitler, Avraam Shmulyevich says, not only because he…
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Putin appears preparing to attack Saudi Arabia and Qatar next, Illarionov says
Events of recent days may have obscured what is the most important development of all: Vladimir Putin appears…
Who blew up the Russian plane over Sinai? ISIS or someone else?
Now that most experts have concluded that the Airbus A321 plane of the Russian airline Kogalymavia was brought…
Putin and Assad are twin brothers
Bashar al-Assad flew in to see Vladimir Putin. The meeting of the dictators was conducted in a warm…
Putin admits Russian military are in Syria to defend Assad
Even in Russia where lying has become “an officially approved social norm” and where leaders on big things…
Putin’s wars already costing Russia ~100 billion US dollars a year, Illarionov says
Estimating the real costs, direct and indirect, of a military conflict is always difficult because so many factors…
Obama’s ‘indecisiveness’ allowing Putin, Assad and Shiites to advance, Illarionov says
“The indecisiveness of the US leadership has given the armed forces of the Russian Federation the chance not…
Russia now faces threat of real terrorism and even civil war, Moscow sociologist says
“The war in Syria is not a hybrid war or a media conflict,” Denis Sokolov says. Instead, “for…
West caving on Crimea – Putin’s first undeserved victory in Syria
Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Paris that “when Ukraine restores its sovereignty not over Crimea but…
‘Putin will never leave Ukraine in peace,’ commentators say
Vladimir Putin’s new war in Syria has driven Ukraine off the front pages of the world’s press, and…
Obama-Putin meeting won’t be a disaster for Ukraine, Portnikov says
Many Ukrainians and their supporters fear that the upcoming meeting of US President Barack Obama and his Russian…
Putin’s desperate attempt to legalize “KrymNash” (CrimeaIsOurs)
The war in Syria is the Kremlin’s last hope to achieve recognition, albeit informal, of Russian-occupied Crimea and…
Ukrainians and Syrians are victims of Putin’s paranoia
Russian and US officials are now discussing Syria and not Ukraine. This is logical because the situation in…
Confirmation: NATO is not able to defend the Baltic States
Foreign Policy wrote yesterday: In June 2014, two US defense experts were asked “to run a thought exercise…
Russia and Ukraine: assembling Putin’s “Syrian puzzle”
A strange elation has been spreading in social networks: Putin supposedly has become actively involved in Syria and, therefore,…
Russia may concede on Syria for free hand in Ukraine — analysts
First Deputy Speaker of Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy reports that Russia is building two military bases in the…
Putin opening ‘second’ and different ‘front’ against the West in Syria, Felshtinsky says
With the dispatch of Russian troops to Syria, Vladimir Putin has opened ‘a second front’ against the West,…
Russian investigators uncover Kremlin’s military aid to Assad regime
Recently the media and blogs have been full of speculation on Russian troops fighting in Syria. However, the exact scale…
Trolls on tour: how Kremlin money buys Western journalists
Russian ultranationalists are trying to buy Western journalists: who is behind all of this? On 23 December 2013…
FSB helps Russian Islamists go fight in Syria, prosecutes ones who come back, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ says
“The Russian special services have controlled” the flow of Islamist radicals from Russia to Syria “from the very…