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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...

Putin’s meddling in US elections backfiring on his own allies at home and on...

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia The Kremlin’s effort to affect the outcome of the 2016 US presidential elections has provoked one consequence Moscow has...

Moscow Can’t Close Ukrainian Language Schools in Russia Because There aren’t Any

Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia A major reason that Moscow has to struggle to find symmetrical responses to anything other countries do is because it...

The Russian subversion of the defense system of Bulgaria – an enabler for “state...

By Mihail Naydenov, for Bulgaria Analytica Hybrid war is not declared. It is being fought, instead. This is the essence of the strategy of today’s...

State memory: 1917 and Russian memory politics

By Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel, for Eurozine ‘Russian memory politics represses both the utopia and the violence. It wants neither to know about the perpetrators...

The Daily Vertical: Putin’s Hybrid Repression (Transcript)

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL Vladimir Putin made all the right noises yesterday when he spoke at the opening of the Wall of Sorrow, a...

Edward Lucas: The Kremlin’s 20 toxic tactics

By Edward Lucas, for CEPA Human weakness means we find it is easier to admire problems than to solve them, to focus on the dangers...

Aleksandr Podrabinek: The American authorities have grounds for what they are doing

By  Rights in Russia In revenge for the misfortunes of Russia Today and Sputnik in the USA, the Kremlin has decided to hit back at...

The Daily Vertical: Correcting History In Lithuania (Transcript)

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL The battle over history is about more than just history. The struggle over memory is about more than memory. Correcting the historical...