Chris Snow, at Medium, with part one of a two-part series of the fall of the Russian Empire. Excerpt: The Soviet Union has been collapsing in waves since 1989. The first stage of the Soviet Empire decline (1970s and 80s), was followed by a second phase of...
At the Wall Street Journal (paywalled except for the lede) Tunku Varadarajan reveals: Excerpt: Cyril Hovorun, a 48-year-old Ukrainian, has worked in the innermost sanctum of the Russian establishment. An Orthodox monk, he was for 10 years the private secretary and...
BY YULIA LATYNINA, at The Hill: Excerpt: To understand the relationship, we must turn to a speech given on Dec. 1 at a forum in Sochi by one of the most mysterious and influential figures of the Russian court: Mikhail Kovalchuk, currently head of the famous...
Photo by Nati Melnychuk under the Unsplash license. Rehman Chishti at the Kyiv Post: Putin’s war machine understands the power of faith and has deliberately sought to destroy Ukrainian churches. Both sides have relied upon Christian themes during the fighting –...
First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Kiriyenko, Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons From Benoit Faucon at The Wall Street Journal an exclusive scoop: One afternoon late August, as Russia’s military pursued its invasion in...
