Putin believed his own propaganda and fatally underestimated Ukraine
By Taras Kuzio, for UkraineAlert
Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to pose as an unrivaled expert on Ukrainian history and identity politics. However, it is...
Edward Lukas: Out of Shot
By Edward Lukas, for CEPA
Gangster dramas are the best guide to the Kremlin’s mindset.
Applebaum? Snyder? Belton? Or maybe some Dostoyevsky or Solzhenitsyn? Putin’s war...
Be Afraid, Russia Tells Occupied Ukraine
By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA
The Kremlin is using a variety of tactics to intimidate and exploit the people of the occupied zones.
Vladimir Putin told...
Is a Military Coup Expected in Russia?
By Kseniya Kirillova, for Jamestown Foundation
Pro-Kremlin sociologists record an extremely low level of protest activity in Russia against the background of the Ukrainian war....
Russian Cyberattacks Need an International Criminal Court Response
By Lindsay Freeman, for CEPA
International law needs to keep pace with the changing nature of warfare. The ICC is best placed to take action.
In...
Russia as Evil: False Historical Parallels. Some peculiarities of Russian Political Culture
Today, many people are trying to compare Putin’s Russia regime with Hitler’s Germany. Indeed, the two states have much in common, particularly the human-hating...
How to Ensure Putinism Survives Putin
By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA
There are moves to have Putinism installed as a state ideology to last beyond the president’s time in office.
Alexander Dugin,...
How Solntsepyok, a brutal 2021 propaganda film, primed Russians for war with Ukraine
By Greg Dolgopolov, for The Conversation
The war in Ukraine is as much a bloody conflict as it is a propaganda war.
The doublespeak in Russian media is...
Russian Propaganda — Words No Longer Matter
By Kseniya Kirillova, for CEPA
Pro-Kremlin narratives constantly contradict each other, but most of its consumers don’t care.
In the eyes of one of Russia’s leading...
Why soldiers commit war crimes – and what we can do about it
By Mia Martin Hobbs, for The Conversation
In 2020, the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force released the Afghanistan Inquiry into Australian Defence Force Special Forces atrocities...