Supplying off-ramps for Putin will destroy international law – Poland’s Ambassador to UN
If the West allows Putin to save his face and find an off-ramp from the Russian invasion of…
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Coercing Ukraine into neutrality: the politics behind Russia’s military threat to Ukraine
First of all, despite the fact that the Russian Federation is constantly raising the stakes, ongoing discussions about…
‘We are not a bridge; we are the West,’ a Ukrainian president needs to follow Latvian one in declaring, Portnikov says
More than 20 years ago, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright observed with some bitterness, “whenever I want…
Moscow diplomats said behind formation of militarized Russian and Cossack groups in US
Ruslan Gurzhiy, a journalist for a Russian émigré publication in Sacramento, California, says that Russian diplomats and oligarchs…
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…
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…
For all its problems, Ukraine now easternmost of Western countries rather westernmost of Eastern ones
Rudyard Kipling famously observed that “the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks his shirt in. As…
The West didn’t ‘betray’ Russia: Russia betrayed its best self
For the past several weeks, many in Russia and the West have been having fun with a Facebook…
Debates about Putin now recall those about Hitler in mid-1930s, Ikhlov says
There has been a dramatic increase in the influence of pro-Putin forces in the West in recent months,…
Basis of Putin’s optimism: big US Firms were quite ready to overlook even Stalin’s crimes
A Russian blogger says that the basis of Vladimir Putin’s optimism about a new relationship between Moscow and…
Putin using all means against the West – including Islamist terrorism – Piontkovsky says
Tragically, Andrey Piontkovsky says, Washington does not yet understand that Vladimir Putin is not and will not “struggle…
Putin wants to do more than to install Trump as US president: he wants to destroy the West
As evidence mounts that Vladimir Putin used a variety of covert means to promote the election of Donald…
Moscow analyst: the Kremlin won’t accept Finlandization of Ukraine
The Kremlin’s goals with respect to Ukraine almost certainly preclude any compromise even with the incoming Trump Administration.…
Viktor Medvedchuk: Crimea is Russia and Ukraine is a colony of the West
Crimea is a territory of Ukraine only in accordance with Ukrainian legislation, while Ukraine itself has become a…
West must again shift from containing Russia’s leaders to defeating them, Pastukhov says
Just as was the case at the beginning of the 1980s, the United States must shift from a…
Savchenko’s release signals Putin’s fall to Earth
The return of Nadiya Savchenko to Ukraine is an inflection point in the Russian-Ukrainian [political and military –…
Kremlin reads the West wrong but the West is beginning to read Russia right, Shevtsova says
The Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine and its challenging actions toward NATO ships and plane are based on its…
Kyiv must reject West’s calls to change Constitution and hold elections in occupied Donbas, Piontkovsky says
Kyiv must reject calls by Berlin and Paris to change the Ukrainian constitution and allow elections in the…
Kremlin said organizing secret military units in Germany, other Western countries
Germany’s “Bild” has published excerpts from a new book by Boris Reitschuster entitled “Putin’s Secret War” that suggests…