Russian billionaire Boris Rotenberg is suing four Nordic banks for not doing business with him, Bloomberg reports. The oligarch, an associate of President Vladimir Putin, is on the U.S. sanctions […]
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Ukraine Peace Talks Get Help From Putin. Crazy, right?
Russia is letting Zelensky lay out “red lines” to convince voters he can compromise without capitulating, writes Leonid Bershidsky for Bloomberg from Moscow. No, he is not actually living in […]
Biology Is the Only Limiting Factor for Putin’s Power
Since Vladimir Putin came to power 20 years ago, Russia has lost its influence in Georgia, the Balkans, and Ukraine. Moscow shut down all of the Russian military bases aboard, […]
Mueller: Russia Had Blackmail on Trump
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirmed that Russia had blackmail leverage over Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, nymag.com reports. Naturally, to establish that Russia had leverage over Trump is not […]
Israeli historian lets Russian dictator change his chapter on dangers of dictatorship
A section from a book by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari discussing lies told by Russian President Vladimir Putin was omitted from the Russian translation of “21 Lessons for the […]
Daily Beast: Oliver Stone’s New “Documentary” is a Pro-Putin Propaganda
When at the end of June Oliver Stone announced that he would present new documentary, Revealing Ukraine, at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, not many people noticed, writes The Daily Beast. The […]
Ukraine’s envoy to UN: What’s next? USSR revival?
Volodymyr Yelchenko, Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, drew parallels between Vladimir Putin’s desire to issue passports to Ukrainians with a novel by George Orwell. Taking to Twitter on […]
Putin says Russia may offer fast-tracked passports to all Ukrainians, not only to those living in Donbas
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia may start granting Russian citizenship, under a simplified procedure, to all Ukrainians, not only to those living in Russia-occupied Donbas, eastern Ukraine. […]
Ukraine preparing new anti-Russian sanctions due to Putin’s decree on issuing passports in Donbas
Ukraine is preparing a new package of sanctions against Russia because of the decision of President Vladimir Putin to simplify the procedure for issuing Russian passports to residents of the […]
Bild: He is Back. Putin has Revived the Cult of Stalin
Er ist wieder da. [He is back. – YT] For some time now one of the three worst mass murderers in history has been considered as a role model and […]
Enemy at the gate: Ukraine’s decisive battle for freedom
Meddling in elections is nothing new for the Kremlin, and Ukraine is not an exception. Russia has no constraints in applying the widest range of instruments to reverse its loss […]
Putin’s bank moves to Budapest. It will be immune to all restrictions and regulations
The Moscow-based International Investment Bank is moving its headquarters to Budapest. The Hungarian Parliament debated the international agreement establishing the bank’s new headquarters yesterday – there are a number of […]
Ukraine’s spy chief: Sanctions hurting Putin
EU and US economic sanctions on Russia had a much bigger impact than previously thought, Ukraine’s spy chief has said, euobserver reports. “One of the estimates which we managed to […]
How Putin Lost Ukraine for Good
Russian President Vladimir Putin will go down in history as having “lost Ukraine” for good. Putin has experienced two “geopolitical tragedies” with the disintegration of the USSR in 1991 and disintegration […]
