Dmitry Shusharin

We must be consistent and methodical in assessing the actions of Russian authorities, and a lot of their actions will then no longer seem strange and self-defeating. This thought occurred to me in connection with the statements of a Kremlin-friendly spin doctor who said Vladimir Putin knew about...

Vladimir Putin acknowledged that a terrorist attack happened over the Sinai. He did so after the G20 powers granted his wish and excluded Australia, known for its tough stance in the investigation of the Malaysian aircraft’s crash over the Donbas, from talks on Syria. Following this, Putin...

Very much has been said about the Kremlin as a beneficiary of terrorism. Just for this reason, it is worthwhile to continue this discussion because sometimes there are things that deserve to be discussed because very much, not very little, has already been said about them. This particularly applies...

Ukrainians are interested to know what is happening in Russia, primarily the moods within Russian society. Regrettably, no good news there. Ukrainophobia is uniting all social strata and groups, although there aren’t many. There are two large groups of people in power, near those in power,...

Ukraine’s election is exclusively that countries domestic business, which is why I refrained from any publications for two weeks. The major news is forbidden ground, so writing on other subjects is basically pointless. But recently things happened which make one place the outcome of the...

MOSCOW – People usually start reading books by authors who have made their name (as is often the case with Nobel Prize winners). However, this does not mean that they will read their message. It is important to understand the message conveyed by the Belarusian author, Svetlana Alexievich,...

A time of boredom and routine begins in Russia, for an absolute minority. Meanwhile, for the majority the show is going on and becoming ever more colorful. Russian intelligentsia loved the title of Hannah Arendt’s book about the Eichman trial in Jerusalem, A Report on the Banality of Evil....

Mikhail Khodorkovsky has said bombastically that he will not go to Ukraine if he is invited to. Nobody has invited him so far. He will not go because Ukraine is at war with Russia.A few days later the Investigation Committee summoned his father for an interrogation. Many used to cry out before...

This text was not intended to be printed because it is a summary of the book I am finishing now. It contains many things The Day’s readers know from my other publications. Still I requested editors to publish it. What caused me to do so was a Russian press campaign which produced very similar...

I will say it immediately, to avoid beating about the bush. The past month’s developments, including the absence of significant events (speaking of warfare in Ukraine), show the Kremlin’s strengthening and success of its strategy. Now it is not a “hybrid war,” but a “...