Kremlin’s Efforts to Use Russophobia as the ‘Anti-Sovietism’ of Today Don’t Quite Work, Troitsky...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
When the USSR existed, calling someone “anti-Soviet” was one of the most damning labels, even if some wore that...
The Daily Vertical: The Ghosts Of August 1939 (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
It happens every August, almost without fail.
As the summer winds down, you can count on the annual controversy about the...
Facing facts: Why the Great Famine in Ukraine still matters today
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
The Holodomor happened almost a century ago. It's legacy still shapes contemporary conflict.
Was the Holodomor a genocide? No, says modern...
Is Russia losing the information war?
By Donald N. Jensen, for CEPA
Nikolay Patrushev, head of the Russian Security Council, warns that the use of foreign data technology by state structures...
The Daily Vertical: Best frenemies forever (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
They're arguing about milk. They're quarreling about customs. And they're squabbling about ports.
For two countries that are supposed to be...
The Daily Vertical: Lukashenka the ‘good cop’? (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
So it appears there will be a degree of transparency in next month's massive Zapad 2017 war games after all.
Scores...
The Daily Vertical: The Kremlin’s anti-Navalny? (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
He's a bare-knuckled street brawler. He's a firebrand leftist. And he's an unapologetic Stalinist who wants to restore the Soviet...
Nothing Lasts Forever Whatever the Kremlin Says, Novoprudsky Argues
The Russian authorities have long promoted the idea that whatever is is forever as “an effective means of convincing people that the powers that...
Tracking Russian propaganda in real time The trouble with a new automated effort to...
By Kevin Rothrock, for Meduza
On August 2, The German Marshall Fund of the United States unveiled a new online tool — a “dashboard” —...
Russian public life today is not just a battle of individuals but a struggle...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Despite the conviction of many that conflicts among opposition figures are simply battles among individuals, Vladimir Pastukhov says, “an...