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The U.S. intelligence community has spoken: Russian President Vladimir Putin was recently treated for “advanced cancer”. Inasmuch as America’s spies correctly predicted Russia’s war...
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The U.S. intelligence community has spoken: Russian President Vladimir Putin was recently treated for “advanced cancer”. Inasmuch as America’s spies correctly predicted Russia’s war...
A new front in the war for Ukraine: Ukrainian officials had announced in early April that they expected a full-scale Ukrainian guerrilla movement to emerge in the...
Is a coup possible in Russia? Several months ago, most analysts would have dismissed the idea as absurd. Today, with the war in Ukraine...
How Can Ukraine ‘talk’ with Russia when Putin’s goal seems to be to ensure Ukraine doesn’t exist? Imagine it’s 1944 in Europe, and some Allied...
Sooner or later, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine will end, with or without a peace treaty. What then? What should the West’s policy toward Ukraine...
Reading Putin at Zhirinovsky’s Wake – The unabashed Russian fascist, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, died on March 25, after an encounter with COVID-19. Zhirinovsky’s corpse was...
What happened in Ukraine seems to be part of a disturbing pattern in Russian history – The Russians are so predictable. Whenever they commit atrocities...
The Russian Orthodox Church has lost its soul. Several weeks ago, Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church and reputedly a long-time agent of...
What do a Belarusian Noble Prize winner and a 19th-century French aristocrat have in common? They think that Russian political culture is deeply authoritarian....
At least Raskolnikov had a guilty conscience. Whether contemporary Russians do, too, remains unclear. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s tormented hero believed his extraordinary qualities permitted him...