Items tagged with: Russian imperialism

OPINION: NATO poses a threat to Russian imperialism not Russian national security

Moscow’s passive response to Finnish NATO membership is confirmation that Putin never really saw the alliance as a security threat to Russia. In reality, he merely exploited NATO expansion as a smokescreen for Russian imperial aggression against...

Sunday, 23 April 2023 01:51

Victoire! French state news agency AFP adopts “Kyiv” spelling for Ukrainian capital

More and more international media outlets are switching to the Ukrainian-language “Kyiv” transliteration when referring to the country’s capital city as Ukraine seeks to assert an increasingly independent identity amid an eight-year undeclared...

Tuesday, 04 January 2022 02:53

Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine obsession could plunge Europe into a major war

The Russian president’s recent essay on the "historical unity" of Russians and Ukrainians lays bare his dangerous imperial delusions and refusal to accept the loss of Ukraine

Monday, 19 July 2021 01:11

Girkin: my bodyguards in Ukraine war were all Russian Orthodox Church monks

One of the leading figures in Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine War has admitted that his personal security detail during his time in eastern Ukraine consisted exclusively of monks from the Russian Orthodox Church’s Sviatohirsk Cave Monastery

Monday, 15 October 2018 13:02

ORTHODOX INDEPENDENCE: Putin in panic as Ukraine prepares to break free from Russian religious dominance

The loss of Russian Orthodox authority over Ukraine would represent a geopolitical earthquake for Vladimir Putin and a huge setback for his imperial ambitions in the former Soviet space

Tuesday, 09 October 2018 00:11

UKRAINE WEAPONIZES COMICS: A new generation of Ukrainian superheroes joins the hybrid war against Russia

The team behind “The Will” comic book franchise aim to create an inspirational and entertaining Ukrainian alternative to the potent cultural imperialism of Vladimir Putin’s “Russian World”

Wednesday, 03 October 2018 01:43

Inside Putin’s Ukraine War

New book explores why the Kremlin is prepared to risk everything in order to prevent the loss of Ukraine

Thursday, 19 July 2018 10:04

HELSINKI SUMMIT: Putin enters talks in pole position as Trump is already echoing the Kremlin’s preferred Ukraine narratives

The American President’s public and private comments on Ukraine are often disturbingly similar to Russia’s preferred talking points and strikingly out of step with official American policy

Saturday, 07 July 2018 15:51

Orthodox Independence Bid

Ukraine's recent appeal to Constantinople could lead to historic recognition for a unified Ukrainian Orthodox Church and further the ongoing geopolitical divorce between Ukraine and Russia

Saturday, 19 May 2018 15:33

OPINION: Russian retreat from Ukraine is a tale of unforced Kremlin errors and self-defeating imperial hubris

Russia's imperialistic attitude towards independent Ukraine has turned an instinctive ally into an aggrieved adversary - and Vladimir Putin must personally accept much of the responsibility for the collapse of Kremlin influence in Moscow's...

Thursday, 12 April 2018 00:21

HOW PUTIN LOST UKRAINE: The Kremlin hubris that led Russia into self-defeating Ukraine hybrid war

Russia’s imperial ambitions came undone because Vladimir Putin fatally underestimated the strength of Ukrainian national spirit

Monday, 24 April 2017 02:29

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