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Ukraine’s top military commander said this week that his troops are locked in a “stalemate” with Russia and that “no deep and beautiful breakthrough” is on the horizon Continue reading

More than 20 months after Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the dominant conventional wisdom is that Vladimir Putin’s autocratic and imperial regime has been isolated and ostracized. Moscow’s relations with the West have been all but severed. Putin’s travel is severely limited due to war crimes indictments. And the Russian economy is cut off from global financial markets due to sanctions. Continue reading

Vladimir Putin makes a rare foreign trip, visiting Beijing to attend the Belt and Road Forum, where he is greeted warmly by Xi Jinping. The two autocratic leaders claimed they were trying to establish a “fairer, multipolar world.” Continue reading

It’s been almost a decade since Russia illegally annexed Crimea with Vladimir Putin calling the peninsula sacred ground. And the public reaction to this first forceful change of borders in … Continue reading

We’ve got Georgia on our minds because fifteen years ago this week, a new era of Russian imperial expansion commenced with Moscow’s August 2008 invasion of that South Caucasus country. Continue reading

One month after a short-lived armed insurrection directly challenged Vladimir Putin’s rule, the man who orchestrated it all is still roaming free. Continue reading

Two weeks after Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin launched, and then abandoned, an insurrection that shook Vladimir Putin’s regime to the core, the fallout, repercussions, and consequences continue to unfold. Continue reading