Opinions

At a time when each day brings fresh evidence that Russia is headed in a very dangerous direction and many news items that leave one shaking one’s head or feeling the need to say “I’m not making this up,”…

Russia's annexation of Crimea last year caught almost everyone off guard. The Russian military disguised its actions, and denied them - but those "little green men" who popped up in the Black Sea peninsula were a textbook case of the Russian practice of military deception - or maskirovka.

The time for diplomacy will come again, but it is not now: Ukraine urgently needs military support, and a counter to Russian propaganda, Timothy Garton Ash wrote for The Giuardian.

A fake video has been spreading in the Web since May, 2014. We can see on it alleged members of the Ukrainian Right Sector organization presumably killing an ex-policemanchief from Donetsk.

You can learn a lot about someone from their delusions. Consider Vladimir Putin's comments on January 26. Speaking to students at St.

The Russian Federation’s propaganda and other aggressive actions in the information space have recently been the subject of buoyant discussion within the context of events in eastern Ukraine.

ВЦИОМ, наконец, решился измерить отношение россиян к теракту в редакции журнала «Шарли Эбдо». Не прошло и 20 дней после трагедии.

If Ukraine starts to copy the Kremlin's propaganda machine and to manipulate facts, it will not be believed anymore, just like Russia.

Terrorist speakers and pro-Russian media in Ukraine are notorious for rapidly shifting statements in the wake of disasters they cause.

"One does not economize on ideology" -- so, according to historian Roy Medvedev, went a favorite saying of Mikhail Suslov, the man responsible for maintaining the purity of Marxism-Leninism in 1970's Soviet Union.