Most people in the West make two fatal mistakes about Moscow ‘media,’ Yakovenko says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Most people in the West continue to make two “fatal” mistakes about the media in Putin’s Russia, Igor Yakovenko...
Russians so overwhelmingly apolitical that poll numbers are meaningless, Kagarlitsky says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Given that 90 percent of Russian society is “apolitical,” Moscow commentator Boris Kagarlitsky says, “it is impossible” to say...
Putin’s ‘hybrid peace’ more threatening to Ukraine than his ‘hybrid war,’ Portnikov says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric about Ukraine has changed in order to curry favor with Russians in advance of the presidential...
Edward Lucas: The repressive state
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
How many political prisoners languish in Russia’s jails and penal colonies? The short answer is that nobody knows. Harassment makes...
Edward Lucas: Russian political theater
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
Russia is having a presidential election this year. Right? Wrong. In fact, the Kremlin is staging a play about an...
Putin’s Russia now ‘an empire of lies,’ not ‘an evil empire,’ Pastukhov says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
At the everyday level, Vladimir Pastukhov says, it is unlikely that Russians lie more than people in other countries...
Russia can only affect Lithuanian society with internal problems – analyst
By The Baltic Times
The Kremlin can only have an effect on Lithuania's society, if it is shaken by internal problems, says Lilia Shevtsova, political...
Claire Wardle: Disinformation gets worse
By Claire Wardle, for Nieman Lab
“We’re in a terrifying moment where our global information streams are polluted with a dizzying array of mis- and...
Russia is practicing a form of geopolitical guerilla war against the West
By Octavian Manea, for Defence Matters
What does Russia want? How should the Russian campaign against the West be understood?
Mark Galleotti participated via skype in...
The Daily Vertical: Russia’s Worst-Kept Secret (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
Well, it looks like TASS just spilled the beans.
Russia's state news agency has apparently just revealed one of the Kremlin's...