Opinions

Hybrid war is not declared. It is being fought, instead. This is the essence of the strategy of today’s actors, be they state or non-state, in their aggressive hybrid warfare campaigns.

‘Russian memory politics represses both the utopia and the violence. It wants neither to know about the perpetrators nor to commemorate the victims.’ The editors of Eurozine partner journal ‘Osteuropa’ reflect on the political meaning of Russia’s official commemoration of 1917.

Vladimir Putin made all the right noises yesterday when he spoke at the opening of the Wall of Sorrow, a new monument to victims of Stalinist repression.

Human weakness means we find it is easier to admire problems than to solve them, to focus on the dangers we can see than worry about those that we can’t, and to use the tools we have on hand rather than try to acquire the ones we actually need.

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

The battle over history is about more than just history. The struggle over memory is about more than memory. Correcting the historical record about what happened in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states seven decades ago is more than just an academic exercise.

A new Russian television series, “The Sleepers,” which suggests the CIA is behind murders and terrorist acts in Russia and elsewhere and that its actions justify, indeed require an equally forceful response by…

Just one more sign that ethnicity and language don't necessarily translate into political loyalty. Just one more signal that Moscow's grip on ethnic Russians and Russian speakers abroad is not all it's cracked up to be.

It is long past time calling “the content of Russia media propaganda,” Igor Yakovenko says. Propaganda is about promoting and spreading an ideology, “a system of ideas concerning the future and ways of achieving them.

Belated, partial and out of date: that, broadly, is the West’s reaction to the menace from Russia. By Edward Lucas, for CEPA The belated is merely annoying; all the people now fussing about Kremlin…