Posts Tagged: Russia Putin
Vladimir Putin: The Murderer
The Ukrainian military has been making gains on the ground against Russian forces, prompting increasing pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin at home. As supporters and arms...
Ukraine, Russia and the West: Could War Erupt?
Having used brutal force to crush nationwide demonstrations in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin has now embarked on a new venture....
Russia’s New Foreign Policy: The Kremlin Has Learned to Bide Its Time
Over the past year, Russia has faced crises of varying degree along its borders. Belarus, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan stand out, as they are Russian allies...
‘Democracy in Russia Has Failed,’ Says Prominent Russian Liberal Political Leader Grigory Yavlinsky
"I don't want to frighten anyone," stated the prominent Russian liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky, "but in fact, the question on the agenda in the next...
Russia’s Shift From ‘Greater Europe’ to ‘Greater Asia’
When the Ukraine crisis broke out in 2014, political analysts pointed out, quite rightly, that Russia without Ukraine would become more Asian. With the country’s...
With Putin’s Proposed Changes, Russia Begins Its Transition to One-Party Rule
On January 15, 2020, in his State of the Nation address to the Russian political elite, Russian president Vladimir Putin proposed some major constitutional amendments,...
How Kremlin Coups Led to Democratic Revolutions
In the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev was under pressure from the fundamentalist communist leaders of East Germany and Czechoslovakia to take action against the reform-minded leaders...
Russia’s Foreign Policy Is Strategic and Rooted in Soviet History
The grand analytical narratives of Russian foreign policy dating from the early 2000s draw radical and opposing conclusions. Some analysts warn that Russia is on...
Russia Will Likely Collapse From the Inside
Russia is historically prone to internal collapse, as is shown by numerous examples from both the imperial and Soviet periods. The collapse usually takes place...
Russia Is Outmaneuvering Trump, and Using the Middle East to Benefit Its Power
For some time now, Russia has been striving to establish itself as the Middle East’s pre-eminent external great power. Through its military involvement in the...
Arab, Russian, and Pakistani Protesters Learn the Lessons of 2011
The recent crackdown in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, in which some 100 people were reportedly killed and hundreds wounded, bears all the hallmarks of the...
Russian Aggression and Putin’s Mass Mobilization
Mass mobilization saved the Russian state on many occasions in past centuries, proving effective against Charles XII, Napoleon I, and Hitler. The Russians are still...
Why Russia and the EU Won’t Cooperate – and Why a New Cold War Is On
Russian relations with Europe are complicated -- and they have military, economic, and often ideological dimensions. The two entities have tried unsuccessfully for centuries to...
Russia’s Perpetual Quest for Military Modernization
When we consider the remaining years of the 2010s and look forward to the 2020s, we can clearly see that Russia’s decline in terms of...
