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Should Armenia’s Pashinyan Be Overthrown or Remain in Power?

November 22, 2020

The political future of Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan is uncertain after his country's sudden surrender in the Nagorno-Karabakh War sparked large-scale protests against him, but even though he's t…

Extreme Pro-US BJP Ideologues Mustn’t be Allowed to Sabotage Russian-Indian Relations

November 10, 2020

Opinion

Influential BJP ideologue Subramanian Swamy published an unprecedentedly vitriolic screed against Russia which spits in the face of their decades-long strategic partnership by arguing that Moscow is a…

President Putin’s 2020 Valdai Club Speech Articulated His Vision of Populist Statism

October 28, 2020

Opinion

President Putin's keynote speech at the Valdai Club's 17th annual meeting devoted a significant amount of time to articulating his vision of what can be described as “Populist Statism”, or the emergin…

Putin’s Got His Problems, Too

October 16, 2020

Opinion

Before the first Trump-Biden debate, moderator Chris Wallace listed the six subjects that would be covered: The Trump and Biden records, the Supreme Court, COVID-19, the economy, race and violence in …

UNGA 2020: Trump vs. Putin & Xi

September 24, 2020

Opinion

The speeches given by Presidents Trump, Putin, and Xi via video during the 2020 UN General Assembly predictably revealed that the American leader's assessment of the contemporary international situati…

Unipolar Spin: Why Imperial Leftists Vilify Russia’s Social Democracy

September 16, 2020

Opinion

A lie told a thousand times becomes the truth. In reading countless articles from the Atlantic Council press outlets (NYT, WaPo, VICE News, et al), we take for granted that modern Russia is a right-wi…

Putin Didn’t Fall for Lukashenko’s Grodno Trick

September 8, 2020

Opinion

Lukashenko's entirely speculative claim last week about Poland's supposed intention to annex Belarus' Grodno region was nothing more than an attempt to trick Putin into “pulling a Crimea” by compellin…

Western Media Misperceptions About Belarus, Lukashenko and Putin

August 25, 2020

Opinion

There is a misperception in western media that Lukashenko is Putin’s man. That is not true; Putin views him as an exasperating and rather dim legacy. There is also a misperception in the west that Luk…