After the Swaggering Celebrations, a ‘Now What?’ Moment for Russia
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The Victory Day parade on the Red Square in Moscow last Saturday (May 9) was a glorious and perfectly smooth affair, which duly filled the hearts of millions…
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Gazprom Must Compromise on EU Charges, but Putin Cannot
(EDM) The European Commission delivered, on April 22, a “statement of objections” resulting from its probe launched back in September 2012, which amounts to charging Gazprom with abusing its dominant position…
The Faltering Russian Economy Makes a Renewed Ukraine Offensive More Likely
(EDM) “Boring” is perhaps the prevalent impression of President Vladimir Putin’s televised four-hour-long Q & A session that aired last Thursday (April 16), which was meant to demonstrate his good health…
Iranian Deal Leaves Russia in Deeper Isolation
(EDM) Moscow tried its best to present the hard-negotiated deal in Lausanne, Switzerland, on curtailing and controlling the Iranian nuclear program as a success of its firm diplomatic position for a…
Putin’s Conveniently Imperfect Memory
(EDM) The Kremlin press service announced last week that President Vladimir Putin would not celebrate the 15thanniversary of his first election, which occurred on March 26, 2000 (RBC.ru, March 26). Indeed,…
Two Summits and a Military Exercise
(EDM) The postponed Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan summit took place last Friday (March 20) in Astana, but the program was cut so short that the only point for staging the event appeared to be…
Baev: Air drops of paratroopers near the North Pole hardly makes the right impression on potential investors
(Vice News) Today Russia is wrapping up a massive military exercise in the Arctic. The five-day excursion involved some 80,000 troops, 220 aircraft, 41 ships, and 15 submarines. While the scale and…
Free Rein of Special Services Makes Russia Ungovernable
(EDM) It took a week for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to produce a pair of plausible suspects in the shocking murder of Boris Nemtsov on February 28 (see EDM,…
Murder That Revealed Truth
(EDM) The photograph that hit millions of computer and smartphone screens late Friday (February 27) night, Moscow time, has instantly become a clear-focused image of what Russia has become amidst the…
After Debaltseve—Is There Chance for Ceasefire?
(EDM) It is entirely correct to say that the “Minsk Two” agreement, reached on February 12, after painstakingly long talks between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, was broken…