He warned the EU should consider a variety of potential red lines that could trigger “high impact” sanctions and other “serious consequences” from the bloc and its partners, including the UK. In addition to conventional conflict, “hybrid warfare” techniques can include other tactics, such as information campaigns and attacks onRead More →
Ukraine invasion fears as Putin faces Covid backlash in Russia The Russian military is set to strike the EU border with an invasion of Ukraine, with an attack potentially set to take place as early as January next year. According to an assessment by NATO and the Ukrainian military intelligenceRead More →
The head of the Ukrainian defense intelligence agency, Commander Kyrylo Budanov, described a possible Russian attack on his country involving around 100,000 troops. Brigadier General Budanov explained that the invasion would involve airstrikes and artillery bombardments. The invasion would begin with an air assault on Ukrainian positions. The Military TimesRead More →
The Russian Imperial Government chose him for their army because he could bring down a horse from a distance of 50 meters. At the start of the 1917 revolution, there were nearly a million Nagant revolvers in the hands of Russian soldiers and officers. This weapon literally became the symbolRead More →
How exactly does a newspaper editor win a Nobel Peace Prize and live to tell the story? First, you survive a war, and then you break your own news to everyone with a headline like this, along with a photo of the newsroom on the newspaper’s website: “The whole NovayaRead More →
As the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics came to a close and country results gathered, attention turned to individual athletes. This is the case of 19-year-old Ukrainian high jumper Yarolsava Mahuchikh, who went overnight to be celebrated for winning a bronze medal in the high jump event to be questioned forRead More →
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a social uprising that unfolded in two phases, the first in February and the other in October. The day after the Revolution was the bloody Russian Civil War with an estimated death toll of between 5 and 12 million people. The working class andRead More →
World War I saw empires collapse, and among these was the Russian empire of Tsar Nicholas II. When Nicholas declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary in July 1914, he was the absolute ruler of a kingdom of nearly 150 million people stretching from central Europe to the Pacific and theRead More →
In November 1917, the Russian Civil War broke out as several factions vied for the power to determine the country’s political future. The Bolshevik Socialist Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, had overthrown the provisional government as different groups fought for control. The two largest groups involved in the fighting wereRead More →
During his annual New Year’s address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the 75th anniversary of the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany as the country’s main event in 2020. The celebrations were supposed to culminate with a parade. pompous military in Red Square and the opening of aRead More →
On this day in history, March 8, 1917, the first phase of the Russian Revolution began in present-day St. Petersburg. The March Revolution (sometimes referred to as the February Revolution due to the country’s Julian calendar) saw many protests against the Tsarist regime due to the lack of food. ForRead More →
We know that communism has led to some of the worst crimes against humanity. Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were monsters, killing millions of their own countrymen. But these were not aberrations. Not many people know that the world’s first communist revolution in Russia, which began exactly 101 years ago,Read More →
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Russia’s recent military exercises – Vostok 2018 – have succeeded in achieving at least one of its goals: to draw attention to Moscow’s growing martial power and ambition. The events that followed also sparked a backlash: US concern about which guns Russia is selling to whom. Russia, however, says itsRead More →