According to recently declassified US intelligence, Russian intelligence is pursuing a systematic program of pro-Kremlin propaganda through private links between Russian operatives and unsuspecting US and Western targets. CNN writes about it. US intelligence agencies believe that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)…
Three-quarters of Russians—75%—believe that the country needs to improve relations with the United States and other Western countries. These are the data of a survey conducted by Levada Center at the end of November. 16 percent of Russian citizens are against improving relations with opponents. At the same time, as it turned out, 70% of respondents have an attitude towards the United States...
Russia will look for a symmetrical response to new US sanctions, said Russian Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukaev. “These sanctions are personal in nature, they are directed against individual individuals and individual companies and are not sectoral in nature, therefore, I think that here...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev called on residents of the country to abandon Western goods. He stated this at a meeting with agricultural producers of Kazakhstan. “Western clothing—you can live without it. Is it true? Without foie gras, bananas, which are generally harmful to us,” the Head said jokingly...
When George Kennan wrote his famous Long Telegram, he mentioned Joseph Stalin only three times. Seventy years later, Vladimir Putin's name adorns almost every page of the scores of memos and documents that attempt to understand the worldview behind strategic behavior...
“Russia’s most pressing problem is not Western-imposed sanctions or the protracted conflict in Ukraine. The problem is economic,” writes Nick Butler in The Financial Times, seeing “the risk that economic problems will lead to political instability both within Russia...
Is President Vladimir Putin strong or weak? And is Russia a paper tiger, or can it growl? It suddenly became a hot topic of discussion among experts on Russia. It is quite interesting to follow the progress of these discussions, but at the same time they ...
It all started with a red and black ribbon, which was made a symbol of pride in the USSR's victory over Nazi Germany. Self-satisfied stickers on cars proclaimed: “Thank you grandfather for the victory” or “On to Berlin!” That same year, expressions of patriotism in Russia became more militant. "Some car enthusiasts...
In a veiled appeal to the West, Russia opposed any attempt to foment a "color revolution" in Armenia, using protests against higher electricity prices for political purposes. For more than ten days, crowds of mainly young people have been gathering in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, demanding ...
Chatham House, the UK's Royal Institute of International Affairs, has released a 58-page report, The Russian Challenge, which contains many brilliant and exceptionally correct assessments of the ideological root causes, working methods and economic characteristics of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin. I have not found any flaws in those ...