Paul Niland: Russia’s Five (False) Narratives for War
By Paul Niland, for CEPA
The Kremlin and its agents are peddling false arguments to amplify the case for war in Ukraine. They are rice-paper...
Edward Lucas: Imperial Echoes
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
Leftwing silence on Kremlin neo-colonialism is striking and shameful.
Imagine that Britain, under an authoritarian leadership yearning for past glories, was...
Bear Feeders in the Balkans
By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA
Russia’s threats against Ukraine have helped reveal its sympathizers in south-eastern Europe. There’s a lot of them.
Croatian President Zoran Milanović, a...
Kseniya Kirillova: Kremlin Refocuses Its Propaganda in Preparation for War
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Jamestown foundation
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 19 Issue: 4
While Russia continues to build up its military forces on the Ukrainian...
Bohdan Vitvitsky: Disarming Putin’s history weapon
By Bohdan Vitvitsky, for UkraineAlert
Ever since 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin has weaponized history as part of his hybrid war against Ukraine. On numerous...
Harley Balzer: Don’t believe Putin’s propaganda. Sanctions are hurting Russia
By Harley Balzer, for UkraineAlert
The Putin regime has long sought to convince Russians that international sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine are actually beneficial for...
‘Dialogue with Russia’ is just a trap
By Stanisław Żaryn, for StopFake
The Russian Federation authorities have a long record of using blackmail, escalating demands and ‘expectations’ from the broadly defined West,...
Timothy Snider: How to think about war in Ukraine
By Timothy Snider, for Thinking about...
I keep being asked whether Russia will invade Ukraine again. I don't know. The last time Russia attacked...
Moscow’s Memory Wars: Putin seeks to whitewash Russia’s Stalinist past
By Gina S. Lentine, for UkraineAlert
On December 28, 2021, Russia’s Supreme Court ruled to liquidate Memorial International on charges of “repeated violations of the foreign agents...
Ben Dubow: The Colored Steppe
By Ben Dubow, for CEPA
Whatever caused the uprising in Kazakhstan, its brutal Russian-backed suppression again shows Vladimir Putin has a free hand to act...