[ad_1] Russian electoral officials on Sunday reported attempts to sabotage voting in the occupied regions, where guerrilla forces are loyal to Kyiv. Guerrilla forces have previously killed pro-Moscow officials, blown…
Tag: Russian politics
Is there correlation between Wagner, warlordism, and the Fall of Rome?
[ad_1] By Dr Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele, Senior Fellow, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies Vladimir Putin’s Russia is losing its monopoly on violence, and thus is at risk of becoming…
Russia’s multiculturalism claims are a front for colonialist policies
[ad_1] In today’s Russia, Putin’s policies — obscured by quotes of one nation “united by a common destiny” — are feudal and assimilationist, Aleksandar Đokić writes. “We, the multinational people…
Do Russian oligarchs condemning the war make any difference for Putin?
[ad_1] Only a handful of Russian oligarchs have spoken out against the invasion of Ukraine since February 2022. Has their public condemnation of the war reached the Russian public, and…
Ukrainian drones won’t wake up Russia, but they won’t enrage it either
[ad_1] When the embarrassing truth gets too big to sweep under the rug, the Russian state switches its tactics and tries to exaggerate instead of minimalising. But this is not…