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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…

Constructive Criticisms of Russian Strategy, and in Particular Towards Belarus

August 24, 2020 Opinion

Like all countries, Russia is imperfect and its strategies can always be improved upon, especially in regards to the ongoing Hybrid War on Belarus which surprisingly seems to have caught the Kremlin o…

Scenario Forecasting: Here’s How Russia Could ‘Pull a Crimea’ in Belarus

August 22, 2020 Opinion

President Putin's reaffirmation of Russia's CSTO mutual defense obligations to Belarus has led to speculation that he might be considering a repeat of the Crimea scenario to (re)unify the two countrie…

Russian-Belarusian Relations: Back to Being Brothers?

August 21, 2020 Opinion

Several recent developments in Russian-Belarusian relations -- in particular, Belarus' return of 32 suspected Wagner mercenaries to Russia, Belarusian opposition leader Tsepkalo's departure from Russi…

Lukashenko Has No One To Blame But Himself For Belarus’ Color Revolution Unrest

August 13, 2020 Opinion

It was entirely predictable that the Color Revolution unrest that Lukashenko himself earlier kindled by partially laying the blame for this regime change attempt on Russia, which he did in a misguided…

Trump Insists on a Putin Visit to US

August 13, 2020 Opinion

The US President Donald Trump’s remark on Monday that a G7 summit is no longer on the cards for the month of September leaves many questions unanswered. We do not know the circumstances in which Trump…