In Failed Crusade: America and the tragedy of post-communist Russia (2001), the late Russian scholar Stephen Cohen has written an explosive text that, understood, can provide the necessary critical historiography of Russia’s “time of troubles” from 1985-2000.

By misjudging the size and importance of Russia’s economy, the West might have taken steps toward its own isolation

Hillary Clinton was involved in the Russiagate hoax from beginning to end.

What could possibly go wrong?

As the world is moving slowly but surely to the edge of the abyss, there is a parallel crisis going within the nations that claim to exemplify the best of “western values” while undermining and violating them at every point.

Toward a war of attrition? Or major power war?

In Davos and beyond, NATO’s upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order.

Russia’s very existence is under threat. The country has to take serious measures to ensure it survives

Her 2016 campaign manager says she approved a plan to plant a false Russia claim with a reporter.

Americans are notoriously self-centered. We have our way, and it is the right way. The rest of the world is out there, and it is its problem. Fine. But who actually runs US foreign policy?