The modus operandi of Putin’s Russia
The following text is compiled from excerpts of a speech given by Andrew Wilson at the conference, “Ukraine as a test for European solidarity?”,...
SU-25, MH17 and the Problems with Keeping a Story Straight
While the investigations in to the downing of MH17 continue there’s been much debate about who was responsible, and the weapon system used to...
Russia Today – Fooling Those Who Wish To Be Fooled
The midgets who rule, with a tiny iron fist, over the dumpster fire known as Russia learned a lesson from their Soviet predecessors. That...
Polarized Russian Society Incapable of Consolidating as France Has, Stanovaya Says
Triumphs and tragedies tend to unite societies, but which ones have that effect, the way they do so, and the limits to that process...
How EuroMaidan and War with Russia Have Changed Ukraine’s Internet
Although many European countries had a rough ride in 2014, no country in Europe can claim to have had a more challenging year than...
Flight MH17: Searching for the Truth
It’s one of the greatest war crimes of modern times – and the truth still hasn’t been told. On July 17th 2014 at about...
A Call From The Kremlin
This opinion was published by MASHA GESSEN in The New York Times on SEPTEMBER 16, 2012.
Secretly I had felt that I had made Vladimir Putin up. I had...
The neo-Nazi representing Germany on Russian TV News
Manuel Ochsenreiter is not a household name either in the United States or in his native Germany. He’s the editor of “Zuerst! German News Magazine” whose promotional...
Putin’s Washington
Inside the bar near Union Station, the two men propped their elbows on a table and locked hands. They’d paired off, American versus Russian,...
Ex-Soviet countries on front line of Russia’s media war with the west
The Kremlin’s plans for the global expansion of state media have been greeted with suspicion, especially in the countries of the former USSR.
When Dmitry...