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Western policies
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The West’s failure in 1991 must not be repeated now
Twenty-eight years ago today, Moscow sent troops to Lithuania and killed 13 people in the vain hope of…
15/01/2019
Western leaders again more afraid of Russian disintegration than of Russian threat, Kasparov says
Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov said many interesting things in the course of his responses to questions from…
08/01/2017
World faces crisis like 1952/53 rather than 1914, 1939 or 1962, Piontkovsky says
Leaders, like all other people, typically go through a process whenever confronted with a radical change in the…
12/10/2016
The rapidly changing landscape in Europe
Thirty years ago the political landscape on the European continent seemed stable and fixated for decades to come.…
13/06/2016
Obama’s betrayal of Syrian opposition should worry Ukrainians, Piontkovsky says
The decision of US President Barack Obama to go along with Vladimir Putin on Syria represents a betrayal…
24/02/2016
West can stop Putin only by focusing on the dirty money Moscow keeps and uses abroad
Sanctions against Putin’s Russia and other authoritarian regimes are like those imposed in the past against apartheid in…
02/04/2015
Putin’s strategy: Involve West in undermining Ukraine so Ukrainians will despise it too
Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea and continuing aggression against Ukraine means that Ukrainians will never again accept ethnic…
04/03/2015
‘What can Ukraine expect from the West now?’ – former GULAG inmate asks bitterly
Myroslav Marynovich, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group who spent a decade in the Soviet GULAG and…
02/02/2015