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‘Criminal in the Kremlin’: An Interview with Professor Walter Clemens
Below is an interview I conducted recently with Walter Clemens, a professor emeritus of political science at Boston University and an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at...
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Hitler and Putin: A Tale of Two Authoritarians
Will Russia’s unconstitutionally elected president, Vladimir Putin, unleash a full-scale land war against Ukraine?I can give you ten reasons for every possible answer to this question. Which is to say...
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Loose Cannons and Ukrainian Casualties
So now the number of dead Ukrainian soldiers is 722. The number of wounded is 2,625. The Ukrainian army keeps on making slow but steady advances; the pro-Russian terrorists appear to have suffered...
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West's Refusal to Arm Ukraine Invites Guerrilla War
If Russia launches a full-scale invasion and Ukraine is unable to defend itself with its armed forces, the result will be a “people’s war” entailing enormous casualties and millions of refugees....
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Ukraine to Wall Out Putin, Literally
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced on September 10th that he intends to build an extensive set of fortifications along Ukraine’s frontier with Russia and the Russian-occupied enclave of the...
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Will Putin's Successor Be Worse?
Who will succeed Vladimir Putin if and when he falls? Will things get better or worse? Those are the intriguing questions posed by Benjamin Bidder, Moscow correspondent for the German news weekly Der...
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Enthusiasm for Separation and Reform Weakens in Ukraine
Three recent news items deserve our attention.First the good news. According to the Russia-based Sociological Service of the Anti-Corruption Fund the vast majority of residents of Odessa and Kharkiv...
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Ukraine Must Reform to Save Itself
Will NATO Save Ukraine from Russia? I’m surprised by how many people, especially in Ukraine, believe the answer is yes. And I’m no less surprised by how many Western analysts and Russian policymakers...
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Ukraine Should Abandon the Donbas Enclave
Ukraine has two nonnegotiable priorities in its ongoing war with Russia: survival and reform. Ukraine must survive as a sovereign democratic state in the short term if it is to reform, and it must...
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Leave Putin His Scraps
Would territorial retreats whet Vladimir Putin’s imperialist appetite?I’d be rich if I had a hryvnia for every time I’ve heard that question answered in the affirmative. Accordingly, if one concedes an...
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Ukraine's Commitment to Values Ensures Its Independence
At the moment, Russia has lots of hard power and very little soft power, while Ukraine has lots of soft power and little hard power. Russia’s determination to exclude soft power will ultimately be...
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Is Russia Artificial?
Most people would unthinkingly answer: of course not! Just look at all the Russians inside and outside Russia. Just look at the Russian state. They’re real, aren’t they? They’re organic. How could one...
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Ukraine’s Real and Unreal Elections
Ukraine recently witnessed one real election and one pseudo-election, but both may be turning points in the country’s history. The real election, to the Rada (Ukraine’s Parliament in Kyiv), took place...
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Kiev Cuts Subsidies to Separatist-Controlled Enclaves
Even as Putin’s proxies in the Donbas enclave are preparing a major assault on the Ukrainian army, they are also evidently panicking. And all thanks to the Ukrainian government’s recent wise decision...
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Does Ukraine’s Reform Plan Measure Up?
The reform plan of Ukraine’s coalition government-in-the-making has received mixed reviews from a team of Ukraine experts affiliated with the policy discussion website VoxUkraine. According to the...
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Time for a Hybrid War Against Russia?
Should Ukraine embark on a “hybrid war” against the Donbas enclave controlled by Russia and its proxies? One of Ukraine’s best military analysts, Yuri Butusov, the Russian-speaking editor of the...
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Who Will Save the People of the Donbas?
The answer, as is becoming increasingly obvious, is no one. Having ruined the economy of the Donbas enclave they occupy and caused a humanitarian catastrophe, neither Russia nor its terrorist proxies...
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Decoding Putin’s State of the Union Speech
Vladimir Putin’s December 4th “state of the union” address to Russia’s Federal Assembly once again explained why he annexed the Crimea. This time, his explanation reached new ideological heights, while...
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Ukraine's Pro-Reform Cabinet
Ukraine may finally have a cabinet able to introduce radical reforms. For the first time in independent Ukraine’s history, its ministers are young and Western. Youth matters, as it’s a measure of the...
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The Putin-Santa Letters, 2014
The Communist Party of St. Petersburg recently issued a statement to Russian children in which it warned them against the imperialist intentions of the CIA stooge, Santa Claus. (Seriously.)Fortunately,...
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