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Moscow’s full-scale war did not come as a surprise to us, but we didn’t believe it would so closely replay those old atrocities. Whenever I receive guests in Tallinn ..I show them a room where portraits line the wallse depicting Estonian heads of government before WWII. I ask my guests to look at the dates of their deaths; all lost their lives at the hands of Soviet occupants in the 1940s or died in Soviet captivity. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine did not come as a surprise to Estonia, but we did not believe it would so closely replay those old...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired five generals and one police colonel, according to a report from Moscow-based media group RBC, amid the country's military failures in Ukraine. -snip- RBC reported on Wednesday that it had obtained a copy of Putin's decree and listed the names and positions of the individuals who were reportedly dismissed from their posts. Those fired included Major General of Police Vasily Kukushkin, who was head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Vladimir region; Major General Alexander Laas, deputy head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for...

15 Explanations For The Slow But Steady Pace Of Russia’s Special Military Operation The present piece will attempt to provide some cogent explanations for helping everyone better understand the evolving military-strategic dynamics at play that are responsible for this. Observers across the world are debating the reasons why Russia’s ongoing special military operation in Ukraine is still raging despite over 80 days of fighting. Critics and supporters of that Eurasian Great Power alike largely seemed in agreement that the Kremlin would crush Kiev within a few days, if not a couple weeks at the absolute most. That obviously hasn’t happened,...

Civilians in Andriivka, a village about 60 kilometres west of Kyiv, are coming to terms with the devastation and trauma that they suffered during the month they spent under Russian occupation. When Russian soldiers first arrived in early March they expected to be welcomed as liberators. Once they realised that the locals did not want them there, they turned murderous.