Gloating and Anxiety: How Russians React to War Reaching Their Homes
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Jamestown Foundation
The war in Ukraine unleashed by President Vladimir Putin has finally reached Russian territory. This includes not only raids...
Putin’s nuclear threats will escalate as Ukraine’s counteroffensive unfolds
By Diane Francis, for UkraineAlert
Ukraine’s counteroffensive is still in its early stages but concerns are already mounting that Russia may eventually resort to desperate...
Russian Victim-Blaming Unmasked
By Elena Davlikanova, for CEPA
There are ways to understand, and be horrified by, Russian popular attitudes to the war, despite the regime’s best efforts...
From Apathy to Denunciations: How the Russian Majority is Adapting to the War
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Russia.Post
At the end of May, an annual conference was hosted in Moscow by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) on the...
Gloating and Anxiety: How Russians React to War Reaching Their Homes
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Jamestown Foundation
The war in Ukraine unleashed by President Vladimir Putin has finally reached Russian territory. This includes not only raids by...
Russia Unleashes a Terror Flood
By Elena Davlikanova, for CEPA
Ukrainians are clear that Russia sabotaged the Kakhovska dam and caused the enormous damage that resulted. Once again, they suggest, the...
Damned If They Did, Damned If They Didn’t
By Francis Harris, for CEPA
Russia is once again the prime suspect as it denies responsibility for the Kakhovka Dam catastrophe.
First, the facts — The Kakhovka Dam,...
Russia’s Regime Lured by the Bait of Falsehood
By Ben Dubow, for CEPA
Putin’s administration has so bastardized the truth that it can no longer describe events on the battlefield.
Over a year ago, Vladimir...
Is The West Really Responsible for Putin’s Imperialism?
By Walter Clemens, for CEPA
The idea that Russia was somehow provoked to invade Ukraine is bad history, whether it comes from the Kremlin or the...
Russia’s Milestone on the Road to Dictatorship
By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA
The evolution from authoritarian state to dictatorship can happen in a moment, but more often it’s a lengthier and stuttering...