Opinions

Russia is once again the prime suspect as it denies responsibility for the Kakhovka Dam catastrophe. First, the facts — The Kakhovka Dam, behind which lies a huge reservoir of 18bn cubic kilometers of water, was breached on June 6.

Putin’s administration has so bastardized the truth that it can no longer describe events on the battlefield. Over a year ago, Vladimir Putin launched a “special military operation” to allegedly rid Ukraine of Nazis.

The idea that Russia was somehow provoked to invade Ukraine is bad history, whether it comes from the Kremlin or the West. Consider this.

The evolution from authoritarian state to dictatorship can happen in a moment, but more often it’s a lengthier and stuttering process. China’s transformation has taken years, and so too has Russia’s.

The departure from his job as Fox News host Tucker Carlson on April 24 sent ripples all the way to Moscow. The decision seemed so important to the Kremlin that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov publicly…

As the United States continues to investigate the massive leak of classified Pentagon documents that include key strategic insights into plans for a Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian propaganda is trying to make the most of the situation (Euromaidan Press, April 10).

It’s one of the curiosities of the information war that for many years the US did not respond in kind to Russian propaganda targeting US citizens.

With Russia’s annual Victory Day celebrations less than one month away, the Kremlin has taken the highly unusual step of canceling a number of military parades in regional capitals.

Finland has just become the thirty-first member of NATO and the silence from across the border in Russia is deafening.

Of the various parties embroiled in Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine, few have attracted as much international attention as the paramilitary Wagner Group.