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Vector politics in Ukraine has added new dimensions to the 222 day-old conflict.
Typically, any conflict behavior should end when a new balance of powers has been determined. But the ‘balancing...
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova© Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS
MOSCOW, February 16. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has jokingly asked American and British media outlets to release a schedule of Russia’s "upcoming invasions" of Ukraine for the current...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s disruptive and expansive nationalist ideology is the main underpinning of his nation’s foreign policy orientation.
This has been apparent in his aggressive approach to Ukraine since 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, as well as in...
By DAVID C SPEEDIE
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The backdrop to the current “crisis” over Ukraine – real, imagined or exaggerated – is the snarling confrontation of NATO and Russian forces in a sweeping arc from the Baltic to the Black Sea. This...
The Russian Orthodox Church blesses rather than fires weapons. In doing so, it has emerged as a powerful weapon in its own right in President Vladimir Putin’s civilisationalist arsenal.
Mr. Putin justified his 12-day-old invasion of Ukraine in part by...
BY SANDY SMITH-NONINI
On February 24, as Russia invaded Ukraine, Guardian reporter Fiona Harvey posed the interesting question: “Is Putin’s Invasion About Fossil Fuels?” Indeed, modern warfare is enabled by fossil fuels. Historians have remarked on the decisive role that access...
On 28 May 1871, one hundred and fifty years ago, the Paris Commune collapsed after seventy-two days. The workers of Paris created the Commune on 18 March, building on the wave of revolutionary optimism that first lapped on the...
By BORIS KAGARLITSKY
Photograph Source: Kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0
The special operation in Ukraine was conceived by Putin and his entourage as a way to turn the political situation around. The Kremlin strategists weren’t the least bit interested in the fate of...
Photograph Source: Andrew Russell – CC BY 2.0
Painted Russian wooden dolls of decreasing size one inside the other used to be a symbol of Russia as a mysterious and menacing place. This was the unmistakable message carried by the dolls in...
Michael Sergeyevich Gorbachev, MSB hereafter, the last president of the Soviet Union died on August 30, in Moscow. He was born on March 2 1931. President Putin of Russia, the successor state to the Soviet Union, paid his respects...
