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The Kremlin sets insuperable preconditions to meeting with Zelenskyy
The war scare has sent Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sliding down from the mid-point of his learning curve…
Under Biden, sanctions against Russia will be more consistent and stable, their “architect” says
In this interview with Valentyna Samar, editor-in-chief of the Center for Journalistic Investigations, and Julia Kazdobina, head of…
Amidst seemingly easing tensions, Putin leaves much unsaid in speech to parliament
The first glazed-over item on this list is the sharp escalation of the Ukraine crisis caused by the…
Chornobyl Deadly Legacy: 35 years on
In 1986, the Ukrainian World Congress and its member organizations helped expose the Soviet cover up and denial…
Russia’s challenges for Ukraine and world, First Lady fashion diplomacy, 2021 Europe prize| Week in review
[editorial]KYIV NOT KIEV prepared a news digest about how Ukraine spent last week, covering the most interesting domestic…
Zelenskyy seeks a summit with Putin again
The Kremlin has, since early April, deployed overwhelming military forces around Ukraine, with high publicity and dire rhetorical…
Deconstructing Putin: it is time the West learned to be bold
A state in decline is a dangerous thing. An autocrat in decline is even more so. Putin’s provocations…
Putin regime “on the road to committing suicide,” Piontkovsky says
Read also: Transfer of Russian military units towards Ukraine’s border to be finished by end of April, –…
Putin to turn a deaf ear to Biden’s words, Portnikov says
He’s going to act from the position of strength, which involves the use of sanctions and pressure on…
Putin has two reasons to kill his opponents and the West has to counter both, Shulipa says
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with…
Moscow presents US as sinking into chaos
Four years ago, in November 2016, Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election was celebrated in…
US presidential election ‘extraordinarily unwelcome’ for Putin, Shlosberg says
If Vladimir Putin was pleased with the results of the 2016 US presidential election in which his operatives…
Supreme power of Putin’s FSB. Part 2: commercialization and criminalization, from “Bandit St. Petersburg” onward
[editorial]During this year, Russia’s Dossier Center collected information about the structure, personnel, methods of work, and the main stages of…
Vitaly Portnikov: Putin cannot be an ally or even an intermediary for the Belarusian people
She believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin could lean on Alyaksndr Lukashenka and make him enter into a…
New Donbas ceasefire appears to be holding despite spike in violations on first day
Last week amid a string of strange disparate events in the country, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy announced another ceasefire…
Vitaly Portnikov: Russia has no intention of adhering to the upcoming ceasefire agreement
[editorial]On July 22, the Trilateral Contact Group held a video conference during which all the parties agreed on…
Putin and Milosevic: Blood brothers
Slobodan Milosevic and Vladimir Putin are cut from the same cloth. Just as the West’s experience with Milosevic…
Current crisis pushing Russia toward Mussolini-style fascism, Pereslegin says
The Russian futurologist says that what happened across Europe in the 1930s is likely to be repeated given…
Will a new ‘revolution of anecdotes’ undermine Putin? A baker’s dozen of jokes about the Russian president
[editorial]In the post-Soviet countries, an anecdote almost always refers to any short humorous story while the word’s typical…
Putin restoring Brezhnev constitution that led to perestroika, Shtepa says
But in restoring what is very much a Leonid Brezhnev-style constitution, the Russian regionalist says, the Kremlin leader…