Piontkovsky: To save his regime, Putin preparing to use nuclear weapons convinced West will blink first
“Even the toughest authoritarian regime cannot operate on force alone,” Andrey Piontkovsky says, noting that the collapse of…
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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…
Putin is preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war against the West, Skobov says
Putin is preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war, convinced that “the effete West will refuse…
Churchill’s diagnosis of Stalin’s Russia remains true for Putin’s, Bezsmertnyi says
Seventy-three years ago, Winston Churchill gave a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, which is now remembered…
Google puts profit before principle on Crimea, Portnikov says
Moscow media outlets are celebrating Google’s decision to show Crimea as part of Russia, even though it will…
Putin has three goals in playing nuclear card against West now, Kirillova says
Vladimir Putin’s new round of sabre rattling against the United States is not simply an extension of what…
Putin takes a page from North Korea’s playbook against Trump, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s sabre rattling in his presidential address was intended to tempt Donald Trump into acting he has…
Putin regime – West’s ‘existential’ enemy and West must stop his aggression in Ukraine by force, Skobov says
The regime Vladimir Putin has created in Russia is an “existential” enemy of the West and an international…
Moscow commentator: ‘Trump’s policy completely corresponds to Russia’s national interests’
Russian commentators are celebrating Donald Trump’s decision to pull American forces from Syria, with some calling it the…
Putin’s invasion force is only 18 km from Ukrainian border and West is ignoring it, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin has assembled “hundreds of Russian T-64 and T-62M tanks and thousands of military vehicles” only 18…
Moscow celebrates another disgraceful American concession after Helsinki
Major acts of betrayal like selling out Ukraine or calling into question American responsibilities to its NATO allies…
Putin’s vision and goals make any serious agreement with him impossible, Pastukhov says
Vladimir Putin has convinced himself that a third world war is inevitable and that to improve Russia’s chances…
Trump has done more than collude with Putin: he’s helped Kremlin leader destroy post-1945 world
Donald Trump did more than collude with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. He worked with the Kremlin leader to…
What do you call a successful terrorist? Your excellency!
It has long been a witticism among specialists on international relations that terrorists who succeed are no longer…
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…
‘Molotov is alive and looking for a new Ribbentrop,’ Lithuanian foreign minister says
Speaking in Bratislava yesterday, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said that “Molotov is alive and looking for a…
Trump and Ukraine: ‘a small country far away about which we know little’?
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s dismissal of Czechoslovakia as an artificial country created at Versailles and one that…
Moscow doesn’t expect Trump to end sanctions all at once but ‘cleverly’ over time, Markov says
“Russophobia is so deeply rooted in European-American ideology,” Sergey Markov says, that Moscow doesn’t expect new US President…
The Trump administration eases sanctions against Russia
The USA’s Treasury Department has allowed American companies to interact with Russia’s Security Service, the FSB, in order…
Putin is attacking in Ukraine precisely to boost chances for ‘Big Deal’ with Trump
Some commentators are suggesting Vladimir Putin launched his latest round of aggression in Ukraine because he has gotten…
