Putin ‘paralyzed’ by Prigozhin’s rebellion
When Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, launched his attempted mutiny on the morning of June 24, Vladimir Putin was paralyzed and unable to act decisively, according… Read more »
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‘Putin’s in a zugzwang’: The beginning of the end?
As rattled as they may have been by an armed insurrection in a nuclear-weapons state, Russia’s friends and business partners are unlikely to abandon Vladimir Putin, according to diplomats and… Read more »
‘Naked Pravda’ – Is activism still possible in Russia?
Formal treason charges and denied bail for journalist Evan Gershkovich, a rejected appeal from opposition politician Ilya Yashin, reportedly new felony charges against jailed anti-corruption icon Alexey Navalny, and 25… Read more »
Putin’s Ukraine war is ‘turning Russia into a failed state’
Pro-democracy Russians who reject the totalitarian Putin regime are doing what they can to help Ukraine liberate all occupied territories and restore its territorial integrity. We are also planning for the… Read more »
Russia’s ‘biggest geopolitical defeat’ since U.S.S.R. collapse
“[E]veryone understands that the regime doesn’t have much time left,” says a former Russian intelligence chief. Many of the Russian cheerleaders of the invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday cast the… Read more »
Africa on the front lines of autocrats’ pursuit of influence
As Sudan’s popular revolt surged from late 2018, threatening to topple President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s government, he received a memo urging the government to run a social media campaign… Read more »
Ukraine: Are democracies really united against Russia?
“If [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is successful in undermining Ukrainian independence and democracy, the world will return to an era of aggressive and intolerant nationalism reminiscent of the early… Read more »
Putin will face ‘systemic backlash’: Russia’s oligarchs ‘going through an existential crisis’
Vladimir Putin’s inner circle has been “extremely upset and shocked at the turn of events” in Ukraine, according to a leading analyst. “I mean Putin was there essentially as the… Read more »
In a ‘decisive rout,’ Ukraine gives Russia a tutorial on fighting for freedom
Ukraine is fighting not just for its own existence but for European values, human rights and democracy, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, said in an address to the US. Congress today…. Read more »
Redirect Kremlin oil revenues, says new Russian anti-war committee
Recognizing the difficulties some European countries face in completely abandoning oil and gas supplies in a short time, a new Russian anti-war committee urges Western democracies to redirect payments for… Read more »