Russia’s war has shattered Merkel’s legacy. But her coddling of Putin didn’t stop at Ukraine: Germany befriended and empowered every one of his malign, authoritarian-leaning…
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Putin has sanctified Russia’s bloody war on Ukraine with a contorted but wildly popular mix of historical memory, Orthodox Christianity and messianic nationalism. It could…
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Strategic antisemitism: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s tirade on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Jews and Hitler was no slip of the tongue. It was part…
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After centuries of Tsarist and Soviet repression, the Putin era was a reversal of fortunes for Russian Jews, particularly for Chabad. But Russia’s Ukraine war…
Recent victories for Hungary’s Orban and Serbia’s Vucic are gifts for Putin. Amidst Russian atrocities in Ukraine, where is Western pressure on Europe’s most Kremlin-friendly…
Marina Ovsyannikova, the journalist who dramatically demonstrated against the Ukraine war live on Russian TV, wrote in German newspaper Die Welt on why she finally…
For Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and the rest of the spokespeople for the pro-Russia, pro-authoritarian populist right, U.S. conservatives’ support for Ukraine and for Kyiv’s…
There’s never been a shortage of Russian genocidal fantasies about Ukraine but, until recently, they were confined to the political margins. Now, those fantasies and…
Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has radically ruptured the millions-strong Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora — our own families and friends included. Is the ex-Soviet Jewish world…
There’s never been a shortage of Russian genocidal fantasies about Ukraine but, until recently, they were confined to the margins. Now, those fantasies and their…
Since her 2017 defeat, far right politician Marine Le Pen has been busy mutating into a more palatable candidate for mainstream voters. In two weeks,…
The fascist manifesto: Amid revelations of war crimes in Bucha and elsewhere, this is what a recent article by a pro-Putin propagandist tells us about…
From Roman Abramovich to Moshe Kantor and Lev Leviev: Russia’s war on Ukraine has finally revealed, for those who preferred to remain blind, the true…
Listening to Ukraine’s valiant president, I think of Mordechai Anielewicz, who led the Warsaw Ghetto uprising: Like Zelenskyy, he pleaded for help and stood ready…
Putin’s callous calculus is unmoved by Russian tactical failures and Ukraine’s resistance. Almost as ruthless as Saddam, but with actual nuclear weapons, it’s premature and…
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Will Putin’s clear lies on Ukraine be a wake-up call to those U.S. Jews who’ve swallowed lies and conspiracy theories at home – even when…
In his recent address on Russian TV about Ukraine, where he red-flagged “fifth columnists” who are “traitors to the nation,” Putin did not explicitly say…