Russian historians wrote detailed accounts of Russia's takeover of the Crimea, Finland, Ukraine, Poland, and other lands, but they did not describe these areas as Russian colonies. Instead, mainstream Russian historians argued that 'Russia colonized itself'. The discourse of self-colonization was ...
Zelenskyy, adviser Andriy Yermak and some of Ukraine's most senior generals spoke with Martha Raddatz to address pressing questions in Russia's invasion
(In annexing Crimea, Russia itself broke a promise: In the Budapest Memorandum, a treaty Russia signed with the U.S. and U.K. in 1994, it committed "to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing bord...
After international sanctions were imposed on Russia following its annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Russian government started promoting the idea of itsown sovereign internet, the RuNet. The war with Ukraine and the consequent sanctions have given new life to the concept. In March 2022, the Krem...
Putin’s latest red line, therefore, is nothing new. The war in Ukraine has been going on in its current form for two-and-a-half years (though it is more than 10 years since Russia illegally annexed Crimea), and the Russian president has not resorted to nuclear weapons, either ta...
Once the upstart foreigner stole Russia’s throne, there was no stopping her enlightened reforms, her empire's expansion, and her pursuit of love and legacy.
Crimea, which had already voted in a referendum to become part of the future independent Russia when the USSR was dissolved, six months before the rest of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic declared its independence, voted again in a referendum. For four years, Crimea was claimed by both Russia and...
The party showed how Russia’s technocrats had begun to internalise and accept their role as cogs in the Kremlin’s war machine, the former official says. “Arkady’s an easy-going guy, and he’s not very self-aware.” VEB, the Kremlin development bank Shuvalov runs, did not respond to...
Last year was not the first time Putin had withheld plans of an invasion from close advisers. When Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, he did not inform his own security council — instead on one occasion gaming out the peninsula’s annexation with his defence minister, Sergei Shoigu,...
If Russia believes that it can still mobilise and has another trick up its sleeve, it won’t do it. Or they may try very risky strategies, as the Germans did in the first world war. I think there is a chance that Ukrainians will push forward during the spring if they have integrated...