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Apr 7, 2022
For Russian leader Vladimir Putin, public opinion acts as both a constraint and a license. He is constrained to avoid actions that drive down his job approval. There might have been...
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Mar 16, 2022
A whistleblower claiming to be from the FSB (Russia’s successor to the Soviet KGB) has disclosed what he or she purports to be the Kremlin’s victory plan now that...
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Mar 1, 2022
On Sunday, February 27, 2022, the diminutive new German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, of the Social-Democratic Party, approached the Bundestag podium to address a full audience regarding...
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Feb 28, 2022
From the start of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, Ukraine has proven a worthy opponent in the fight for minds. Ukraine’s narrative has prevailed. Russia has...
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Feb 25, 2022
Here is what Russians, who get their news from the Kremlin’s so-called information technologists (read: propagandists), are being told about the war with Ukraine by the Russian...
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Feb 24, 2022
In his 2014-2015 wars with Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin was hypersensitive to casualties. I imagine he remains so, even as earlier today as he ordered the full-scale...
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Feb 20, 2022
TASS, a prominent wire service in the Russian news media, has done a lot to help Russian President Vladimir Putin craft an alternate reality about what is happening along the...
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Feb 12, 2022
His may be the lone military voice speaking out publicly against Putin’s actions regarding Ukraine, but it is a significant voice, nonetheless. As Michael McFaul, a former...
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Jan 25, 2022
At the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine's Crimea and Donbas regions in the spring of 2014, German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Russia's Vladimir Putin to...