Putin’s ‘hybrid peace’ more threatening to Ukraine than his ‘hybrid war,’ Portnikov says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric about Ukraine has changed in order to curry favor with Russians in advance of the presidential...
Edward Lucas: The repressive state
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
How many political prisoners languish in Russia’s jails and penal colonies? The short answer is that nobody knows. Harassment makes...
Edward Lucas: Russian political theater
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
Russia is having a presidential election this year. Right? Wrong. In fact, the Kremlin is staging a play about an...
Putin’s Russia now ‘an empire of lies,’ not ‘an evil empire,’ Pastukhov says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
At the everyday level, Vladimir Pastukhov says, it is unlikely that Russians lie more than people in other countries...
Russia can only affect Lithuanian society with internal problems – analyst
By The Baltic Times
The Kremlin can only have an effect on Lithuania's society, if it is shaken by internal problems, says Lilia Shevtsova, political...
Claire Wardle: Disinformation gets worse
By Claire Wardle, for Nieman Lab
“We’re in a terrifying moment where our global information streams are polluted with a dizzying array of mis- and...
Russia is practicing a form of geopolitical guerilla war against the West
By Octavian Manea, for Defence Matters
What does Russia want? How should the Russian campaign against the West be understood?
Mark Galleotti participated via skype in...
The Daily Vertical: Russia’s Worst-Kept Secret (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
Well, it looks like TASS just spilled the beans.
Russia's state news agency has apparently just revealed one of the Kremlin's...
Putin’s meddling in US elections backfiring on his own allies at home and on...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The Kremlin’s effort to affect the outcome of the 2016 US presidential elections has provoked one consequence Moscow has...
Moscow Can’t Close Ukrainian Language Schools in Russia Because There aren’t Any
Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
A major reason that Moscow has to struggle to find symmetrical responses to anything other countries do is because it...