Putin to weaponize emigration?
Russia is a problem when aggressive and Putinised. But it’s no less of a challenge when it is isolated, sanctioned
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Analyses & Alternatives
Russia loses in every scenario in Ukraine
Through his bad judgment, Putin has already closed pretty much any visible “exit ramps”. The situation calls for a diligently thought out diplomatic strategy, to avert a lasting and irreversible regional or worldwide catastrophe.
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How long before the West intervenes in Ukraine?
Photo credit: © Reuters “The enemy had the audacity to fire on us while we were peacefully bombing his cities”
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A regime change in Moscow?
Will the madman in the Kremlin press the nuclear button? Vladimir Putin is losing the war. Or, at least, there
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Déjà vu – Churchills or Chamberlains?
Do the West’s leaders not realise that Yalta-2 is even now being written? If they do, they ought to be
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The shape of things to come – contain or appease ?
A view from Sofia on the legacy of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis Painting: Caesar Crosses the Rubicon, 1875, Adolphe Yvon Like
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Bailing out Vladimir?
The leaders of Germany and France are seeking to bail out Russian ruler Vladimir Putin—and to save their own special
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Bulgargaz as an extension or a competitor of Gazprom
The tension over the change at the top of the state gas trader is highly indicative of the state and
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Russian army officers speak out against a war with Ukraine
Veteran soldier Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov’s draft Appeal is an all-out attack on Vladimir Putin. So what will be the repercussions?
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Vladimir’s war
Why Vladimir Putin is more or less certain to resort to force and try to bite off yet another part
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