Daily review: Putin formally recognizes his puppet republics, sanctions expected
The past 24 hours in the war zone Regular Russian military columns entered occupied areas of eastern Ukraine…
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US sanctions against Russia
Russian gas, German elections, and US sanctions
Two high-resonance processes have been simultaneously unfolding in Europe in the last few weeks: the sharp increase in…
US House of Representatives may have just killed Nord Stream 2
On 23 September, the Democrat-controlled lower house of the United States Congress voted for amendments to the National…
Western sanctions regime must be fundamentally revised because Russia is a mafia state, Gessen says
The Russian-American commentator argues that the West’s sanctions regime is based on the false assumption that Moscow will…
Under Biden, sanctions against Russia will be more consistent and stable, their “architect” says
In this interview with Valentyna Samar, editor-in-chief of the Center for Journalistic Investigations, and Julia Kazdobina, head of…
Amidst seemingly easing tensions, Putin leaves much unsaid in speech to parliament
The first glazed-over item on this list is the sharp escalation of the Ukraine crisis caused by the…
Putin to turn a deaf ear to Biden’s words, Portnikov says
He's going to act from the position of strength, which involves the use of sanctions and pressure on…
Can the vessel Akademik Cherskiy finish Nord Stream 2 pipeline construction?
At the beginning of October 2020, the Akademik Cherskiy—the only Russian pipe-laying ship capable of completing the construction…
The toxic myth of “understanding and engaging” Russia
Recent western attempts to help "solve" the conflict in Donbas Russia’s war against Ukraine in Donbas is understandingly…
Russia pushes to complete Nord Stream 2 challenging US sanctions
While the United States struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, Russia has deployed two pipe-laying vessels to the Baltic…
Pandemic adding to burdens sanctions have imposed on Moscow for seizing Crimea, Umland says
The logic of the sanctions regime the West imposed on Moscow after Putin seized Ukraine’s Crimea was not…
Portnikov: Why Berlin saves Putin’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
The German tabloid Bild informed its readers about the decision by the Bundestag's ruling coalition to change the…
Portnikov: Crimea and the “confrontation of superpowers”
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg linked Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula with the confrontation of superpowers. This…
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…
Sanctions matter even if they won’t change Putin’s policies because ending them would lead to disasters
Sanctions against Moscow for its violation of international law in Ukraine are important and worth maintaining as a…
‘As long as Trump’s in the White House, Putin will remain in the Kremlin,’ Nemets says
Many Western and some Russian commentators have seriously misread what the new American sanctions have done to the…
Many Russians will welcome harsh Western actions against oligarchs, Skobov says
One of the “most popular” arguments Putin supporters in the West use against the imposition of sanctions against…
Trump may negotiate with Putin for the same reasons he’s talking with Kim Jong-Un, Novoye Voennoye Obozreniye suggests
The editors of Novoye voyennoye obozreniye, the military affairs supplement to Nezavisimaya gazeta, suggest that the trajectory of…
Shevtsova: Moscow far more worried about Trump than many in the West think
Many Russian and Western analysts dismissed “the Kremlin list” the Trump Administration released two weeks ago as a…
‘Kremlin List’ – as published – discredits US and helps Putin, Illarionov says
The decision by the Trump Administration to substitute at the last minute a list compiled from other publicly…