After the USSR collapsed, North Korea was the target of numerous, sometimes very nasty, jokes from the Russian population until the early 2000s. Not so long...
Coincidentally, or due to some invisible triggers, several recent episodes in Russia, taken together, reveal the core purpose and identity of Putin’s Russia. Interestingly enough, if...
The St. Petersburg Economic Forum was, in fact, a rather successful attempt by Vladimir Putin to rally countries and various individuals around the idea that...
It has been a week of bad news for Vladimir Putin. They all point out that the consolidation of Western support for Ukraine, which had...
Vladimir Putin does not understand how it is possible that the "marvellous and great" Russian army he had been building for a quarter of a...