Category: 8. Opinion

In recent months, the small Armenian village of Margara has drawn a steady stream of Western diplomats and foreign journalists. It’s not the stork nests built on the houses or the vineyards against…

The idea that Western media can spread Russian propaganda and enable the Kremlin’s information warfare about the situation in Ukraine has entered the mainstream. But some outlets have inadvertently…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to end the Russo-Ukrainian war within 24 hours of assuming office has fallen flat. As well as failing to extract a single concession from Moscow and

Russian history is a list of famous freemasons, from Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Kutuzov, to the tsars Peter III, Alexander I and Paul I. Despite that heritage, it has been a favourite target for the…

The usage of criminals and wider organized crime groups by Moscow is nothing new. The 2007 cyber attacks against Estonia were organized by proxy groups associated with Putin’s administration. The…

According to the Kremlin’s summary of last week’s phone call between the Presidents of the United States and Russia, Donald Trump supports Vladimir Putin’s idea to organize ice hockey matches between…

The day Voice of America went silent, my friend from Moscow — also a journalist in exile, now living in Europe — posted a photo of me from 11 years ago. In that picture, I’m captured in a strange…

For decades, European security policy rested on the idea of omnipresent U.S. power. Europe was free to trim and water its garden in the comfortable shade of Washington’s nuclear umbrella.

However,…