War in Ukraine
Putin has been rattling his saber, making threats and calling for mobilization. Just last week the news and social media were full of stories and images of torture, killings and mass graves. In the fa
Sep. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
The Kremlin admitted Monday that errors had been made during the mobilisation of reservists for the military action in Ukraine and said no decision had been taken to close Russia’s borders. “Indeed, t
Sep. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
A new wave of arson attacks on local governments and military recruitment centers is gaining momentum in reaction to mobilization. Following Vladimir Putin’s announcement of the Russian mobilization,
Sep. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan says the ongoing partial mobilization in Russia and referenda being run in occupied regions of Ukraine suggest that the Russians are “struggling bad
Sep. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has shared a clip of a Russian jet dramatically crashing to the ground in flames after being hit by a U.S.-donated Stinger missile. In the short video, whic
Sep. 26, 2022
The death toll has risen to 13 people, including seven children, after a man opened fire Monday at his former school in central Russia, authorities said. The attack was the latest in a series of schoo
Sep. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
Fresh hostilities broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region last week. As a result, nearly 100 people have been killed in the busiest week of violence in the region since
Sep. 26, 2022
There were few surprises in the Italian elections held on Sep. 25. The center-right coalition won 44% of the votes for the Senate, far more than the center-left coalition, with 27%, according to the v
Sep. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that the United States expressed concern to Russia over the threats of using nuclear weapons in the war with Ukraine. “We’re focused on making sure that
Sep. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
Russian authorities on Sunday, Sep. 25, promised to fix the mistakes in their troop call-up for Ukraine, after some public outrage over students, older or sick people being mistakenly ordered to repor
Sep. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to overcome fundamental structural challenges in attempting to mobilize large numbers of Russians to continue his war in Ukraine. The “partial mobilization
Sep. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
A British man freed from captivity in east Ukraine in a prisoner swap told Sunday, Sep. 25, how his captors stabbed him in the back and forced him to sing the Russian national anthem. Aiden Aslin, who
Sep. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
Backed Into a Corner ( Read Part I here.) Yet while the nuclear threats are directed against NATO countries rather than Ukraine, Ukraine is the reason why Russia is in trouble and which now seems to o
Sep. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
Roman Gerstein, an 83-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, has a blunt riposte for Kremlin justifications of its invasion: “There are no Nazis here.” For supporters of Russian President Vladimir Put
Sep. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
Slightly after dusk on Sep. 22, Ukrainian air defense operators near Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine detected a swarm of Russian drones volleying over the front lines. Coming at them were some of Moscow’
Sep. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
Pressure ratcheted up on President Vladimir Putin as his decision to send reservists to Ukraine triggered spreading protests and hundreds of arrests at home, and Western leaders tore into the Russian
Sep. 25, 2022
Abu Dhabi’s indifference to the war in Ukraine is not driven by the financial windfall it reaps from Kremlin-linked fugitives flocking there en masse so much as peddling the myth of authoritarian stab
Sep. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
The European Union is facing a tough balancing act over how to deal with Russians fleeing military mobilisation, as some countries look to block entry and others offer possible refuge. President Vladi
Sep. 25, 2022
Washington is a city known for being muggy and rushed: Everyone is late for something, and today’s top news is tomorrow’s forgotten history. However, the topic of Ukraine, now nearly seven months afte
Sep. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
One of the most famous movies in history, Dr. Strangelove by director Stanley Kubrick, is also known by the less known subtitle of How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. What was a dark com
Sep. 25, 2022