“The efforts of the contemporary West to discover a soul where it by nature has never been, namely in the body of a KGB lieutenant colonel, led the lieutenant colonel to be ever bolder,” says Igor Yakovenko.
A recent opinion poll found that 46% of Russians admired Stalin; they were indifferent to Brezhnev and really disliked Gorbachev.
We cannot ignore the promise of democracy, that fragile hope that was so victorious on that bright morning three years ago.
A prominent Russian political analyst suspects that Russia is trying to foist on the US an interpretation of the Minsk agreement that places the full onus of implementation on Ukraine.
As Moscow has become more anti-Western, contacts with the Western far right have become more intense and have operated at a high level.
A new report by Russian activist Ilya Yashin describes the outline’s of Moscow’s plans to attempt to influence Ukraine through parties in the Ukrainian parliament that have been Russia’s traditional allies.
“Wherever there is oligarchy, Putin has a chance to bring people to power,” says opposition activist Ilya Yashin.
Winter nights in Donbass are cold, and bitter. Snow on the front lines turns to mud, making movement a chore or, when deadly combat breaks out, a chaotic mad dash. It has been nearly three years since conflict swept through Ukraine’s east, and after numerous failed political agreements, the war continues to rage. But further […]
Reports of precise numbers and accounts of tracking Islamist fighters as they leave Russia and return open up the question of how much the FSB controls these fighters, not only to gather intelligence but to perform missions.
The Russian state TV show Vesti Nedeli, a weekly program hosted by Dmitry Kiselyov has aired footage of Russian spetsnaz engaged in combat on the ground in Syria.
