Russia has long accused the United States—falsely—of funding research in former Soviet republics. Now it has a new audience.
Alexander Lukashenko may not be confident that the Belarusian army would remain loyal if soldiers were sent to die in a foreign country.
And what it says about the message it’s trying to send to its own people.
There is much fighting ahead, but there will be no rapid victory for Russia. What we can learn from Putin’s response.
It’s a throwback to the Cold War, but this time it has a partner in China.
Russia suggests the Ukraine crisis is about NATO expansion when addressing the West. But Putin tells his own people something very different.
At least six such videos have come out of the Ukraine crisis since 2014.