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Crimea

President Donald Trump on the second day of the 2018 NATO Summit on July 12, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.

By Trump’s Logic, If Russia Controls Germany, Then Canada Controls the U.S.

Right now, about 40 percent of U.S. imported oil comes from Canada.
By Jack Crosbie

British Intelligence: Yes, Russian Spy Was Poisoned by Kremlin

London has solid intelligence to back up its claim of Kremlin culpability in the March 4 attack.
By John R. Schindler

Russia Has an Ideology—and It’s as Entrenched as Communism Was

The last four years have witnessed Moscow’s march on one Western institution after another.
By John R. Schindler

Putin’s Re-Election Ensures 6 More Years of Rocky Relations

By Harlan Ullman
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin Pushes Propaganda in Crimea Ahead of Russian Election to Send Global Message

By Davis Richardson

A Poisoned Russian Spy Just Inflamed Cold War 2.0

By John R. Schindler
President Donald Trump.

Trump’s War of Words Is Inching America Toward a Multi-Pronged Battle

By Harlan Ullman
President Donald Trump.

Trump Has Good Instincts but Lacks Know-How

By Harlan Ullman
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Social Media Is Helping Putin Kill Our Democracy

By John R. Schindler
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his New Year address to Russians in central Moscow on December 31, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Alexey NIKOLSKY (Photo credit should read )

Turf for ‘New Cold War’ Shifts to Elections in Eastern Europe

By John A. Tures
Members of the U.S. Army 1-6 Field Artillery division conduct a joint military exercise with the Afghan National Army in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.

Internal Dangers Pose Biggest Threat to US Military Might

By Harlan Ullman
Poland's Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz speaks during a joint UK/Poland press conference in London on October 12, 2017.

Poland Pushes Back Against Putin’s Special War

By John R. Schindler
A navy man inspects a cannon of the Romanian frigate "Regina Maria" during a military drill on the Black Sea.

NATO Should Pivot to the Black Sea, End Russia’s Free Ride

By Harlan Ullman
Vasyl Hrytsak, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine.

Ukraine Accuses Russia of the Unthinkable: Terror Attacks Against Its Own People

By John R. Schindler
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

NATO, Baltic States Alarmed by Russia’s Impending 100K Personnel War Games

By Micah Halpern
A Russian Sukhoi SU-35S fighter performs outside Moscow on August 25, 2015.

Putin Flexes Russia’s Muscles and Sends Jets to US

By Micah Halpern
Russian President Vladimir Putin

What Putin Really Wants—And Why We Cannot Give It to Him

By Jakub Janda
BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 19: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting to discuss the Ukrainian peace process at the German federal Chancellery on October 19, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany, known as the Normandy Four, met in Berlin to discuss implementation of the peace plan known as the Minsk Protocol, a roadmap for resolving the conflict in Ukraine after Russian forces invaded in 2014 and annexed the peninsula of Crimea. The United States has threatened renewed sanctions on Russia if the country did not either implement the plan in the coming months or arrive at a plan on how to do so.

On Alaska Day, Russians Still Dream of Getting Alaska Back

By Mikhail Klikushin
A Yuliya Magdych design

Ukrainian Designer Yuliya Magdych Has Designed the Perfect Vacation Frock

By Michelle Honig
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The Desire to Please Dictators: Why Trump’s Crimea Gaffe Matters

By John R. Schindler
Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko is surrounded by media upon her arrival at Kyiv Boryspil Airport on May 25, 2016 in Boryspil, Ukraine. Savchenko was captured while fighting Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine and put on trial in Russia on charges she was complicit in the deaths of two Russian journalists. In March she was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison, but was reportedly swapped for two Russian fighters captured by Ukrainian forces.

Freed Ukrainian Pilot Curses at Putin and Walks in Public Fountain

By Mikhail Klikushin
PICTURED: Normal in Europe

An American’s Recap of the ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ 2016

By Dana Schwartz
President Obama, Vladamir Putin. (Photo: (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images), Photo credit should read MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images)

Obama Fails to Fight Putin’s Propaganda Machine

By John R. Schindler
US National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden speaks to European officials via videoconference during a parliamentary hearing on improving the protection of whistleblowers, at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France, on June 24, 2014. (Photo: FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP/Getty Images)

US Reliance on Too Much SIGINT and Too Little Spycraft Is Dangerous and Expensive

By Ken Silverstein
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