Scenarios for Russia’s post-Putin future
Vladimir Putin still maintains a strong grip on power in Russia in spite of the Kremlin’s handling of the war and its myriad consequences for Russian society, according to Bruno… Read more »
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‘Our Age of Impunity’: A turning point in Ukraine?
Russia‘s conduct of the war in Ukraine flouts the most basic international laws and conventions, posing a fundamental threat to the global order. As such, it offers a textbook example… Read more »
Ukraine: Putin’s distortions about past feed delusions about future
President Vladimir V. Putin’s decision this week to expand the size of his military offered further evidence for a conviction taking hold in both Russia and Ukraine: The two sides are… Read more »
Where are #TheTaken? Russian military has abducted, killed Ukrainian mayors – Zelensky
The Russian military has abducted and killed a number of Ukrainian mayors, and the bodies of several have already been found, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with… Read more »
Putin’s criminal plan prompts ‘birth of a new Ukraine’
Whatever Russia looks like after Putin, it may not be the Russia Western democracies want, one observer suggests. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used a nine-minute long video to call… Read more »
Orwellian ‘inflection point’: World’s top two authoritarians team up
This is big. Never since World War II have the leading authoritarians of their time been so strategically aligned or personally close – at a time when both have an… Read more »
Ukraine: A ‘battle for the future of the West’?
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s entire attitude towards the democratic world changed following the Orange Revolution, says Taras Kuzio, a Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London and author… Read more »
‘Lenin would be baffled’ – Putin’s Russia today
Today many Russian democrats, desperate to get Vladimir Putin out of the Kremlin, find themselves voting for the Communists. They are well aware of the irony, the Economist reports: But,… Read more »
Democracy defense toolkit can counter Putin’s ‘stagnating kleptocracy’
Many observers see this weekend’s Russian elections as the latest stage in a regression from flawed democracy to fully fledged authoritarian state, says a new report from the European Parliament…. Read more »
Russia and China: Axis of revisionists?
China and Russia are revisionist powers in as much as they share a commitment to creating a “post-West” global order which takes their interests into account and is conducive to… Read more »