Analysis

The International Republican Institute (IRI) has published a survey of political opinion in Ukraine showing overwhelming dissatisfaction with the current government. The survey, which was funded by the Canadian government, uses polling data stretching collected between May 28 and June 14 this year, with comparisons with data from as far back as 2011. 2,400 eligible […]

RT gets the headline wrong but demonstrates how Russian propaganda supports ultranationalism and Euro-skepticism.

NATO invited Montenegro to become its 29th member, a chance to examine NATO-Russian relations and to debunk Russia’s claims about NATO.

In recent weeks, public figures from both the Russian opposition as well as the Russia state and pro-Kremlin media have been attacked by hackers who spilled their private communications out to social media or paralyzed their sites. Who are the hackers and how are they able to gain access?

The Russian liberal opposition Democratic Coalition fell apart yesterday as anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny and Vladimir Milov, former deputy energy ministe broke ranks with former finance minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his colleagues in Parnas. Behind their differences, however was the relentless pressure, organizing restrictions and privacy-busting of Putin’s intelligence service – factors that won’t go away even if people paper over differences.

The Russian opposition made their first test of the upcoming fall elections in Barvikha, a prestigious suburb of Moscow where top Russian officials have their homes. When they uncovered obvious fraud there, they felt that Ella Pamfilova, the new head of the Central Elections Commission proposed by President Vladimir Putin

This morning saw Russian-backed fighters in the city of Donetsk once again firing salvos of Grad rockets at Ukrainian positions. Both sides in the conflict are reporting high numbers of daily ceasefire violations, with Kiev claiming 63 over the last 24 hours and the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) accusing Ukrainian forces of firing more than […]

The Kremlin’s English-language outlets are at it again: Just months after lobbying for Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the UK opposition, they are now backing the campaign to take the UK out of the European Union. Since UK Prime Minister David Cameron and European Council President Donald Tusk held talks on reforming the UK-EU […]

The last two years have been rather tough for the Russian government’s main English-language propaganda outlet, RT. Following Russia’s illegal and nearly-universally-condemned annexation of the Crimean peninsula, RT anchor Liz Wahl, then anchor and correspondent Sara Firth, quit in protest of what they called “propaganda” which they were forced to spread in order to cover […]

The Interpreter Podcast returns! This week, Boston College Professor Dr. Matt Sienkiewicz and Interpreter’s managing editor James Miller discuss the Dutch Safety Board report on the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. Bonus conversation: the first Democratic Presidential debate will be held tonight. Will Bernie Sanders become the front runner, will […]