Given the longstanding servility of the Russian people, Vladimir Putin can be deprived of popular support only by showing how weak he in fact is, according to a commentator, something that requires the opposition within Russia to unite and the West to reduce to a minimum any contacts with him.
Many experts are speculating whether Putin’s regime will fall, but what’s important to analyze are the ways and means, as these could be very dangerous for the world. Nikolay Petrov, currently a visiting senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, has come up with the most sophisticated scenario.
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The Russian opposition made their first test of the upcoming fall elections in Barvikha, a prestigious suburb of Moscow where top Russian officials have their homes. When they uncovered obvious fraud there, they felt that Ella Pamfilova, the new head of the Central Elections Commission proposed by President Vladimir Putin
A Syrian military jet has reportedly either crashed or has been shot down east of Damascus; Israeli press reports that Russian jets fired on Israeli aircraft twice in the last two weeks.
President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met yesterday in Moscow amid reports of Russian aerial incidents against Israel’s jets in Syria.
Two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded yesterday as fighting in the Donbass continued to rumble along, albeit at a reduced pace compared to last week.
ON MY MIND How bad does Russia want a Cold War? Pretty bad, apparently. Up until now, the Kremlin had presented its conflict with the West as a great power struggle. But in an article in the Kremlin mouthpiece Izvestia today, foreign affairs analyst Sergei Karaganov argues that the root of the conflict is actually […]
As the world’s attention shifts, many Russians and many in the West are telling themselves that Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine has been a war like any other regardless of whether they support it or not. But in fact, as Arkady Babchenko points out, this has been something else, “a point of bifurcation” and a fundamental turning point in Russian history.
Thousands of Muscovites have gathered this afternoon to protest the razing of an architectural monument, the old Tagansk Telephone Exchange
