It’s necessary now to put both the word “former” and the word “president” in quotation marks when referring to Vladimir Putin. He stands accused of rigging his elections (both by purging the ballot form and stuffing the ballot box) and therefore...

With every day that passes, it becomes more and more difficult to understand why Russians hold their “former president” Vladimir Putin [see note below for an explanation of the quotation marks] in such high esteem. On the foreign policy front, at...

There are some people who are so repugnant that not even they themselves can listen to their own discourse. The “president” of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is one of them. Russia’s Vladimir Putin, shown above holding hands with Ahmadinejad, is...

In the lead-up to Russia’s comical-yet-obscene parade of obsolete, creaking Soviet-made military hardware through Red Square last week, the dictator Vladimir Putin declared that his nation would soon surpass the United Kingdom in terms of GDP. Putin...

To prevent him from participating in the formation of a shadow parliament, the Kremlin has once again arrested dissident leader Oleg Kozlovsky.

The New York Times reports that casualties in the Myanmar typhoon, originally reported as being in the hundreds by the psychopathic military junta that rules the country, will likely top a ghastly 100,000. The horrifying scene on the ground is shown...

Vladimir Socor of the Jamestown Foundation reports that “from April 29 through May 3, Russia sent additional troops to Georgia’s Abkhazia region on the pretense of ‘peacekeeping’ and ostensibly on behalf of the Commonwealth of Independent...

Meet Russian lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina and her two young children. Arrested on December 8, 2004, she was sentenced to six years in prison for being associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. His crime? He dared to consider challenging Vladimir Putin for...

In a devastating report, the Times of London exposes the horrifying excesses of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which begins to look just like Tsarist Russia of the last century in terms of the massive chasm between rich and poor, which led to the Bolshevik...

My latest essay on the Pajamas Media blog exposes the many ways in which Russian preparation to host the 2014 Winter Olympics has resulted in total failure that could end in Russia’s divestment from the games. Given the proximity of the site to...