Nicolè M. Ford, Ph.D.

So latest bit of #russiandisinformation #fakegnus I’ve seen floating from multiple news outlets, as well as individuals on Twitter. The...

Ukraine is not just a neighbouring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space. PUTIN: IN TELEVISED SPEECH, FEBRUARY 23, 2022. (Originally written May 2022, transferred here to my new website Jan 2023.) When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, familiar explanations quickly emerged, particularly arguments blaming NATO expansion as the primary cause of the invasion. Yet Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine revealed the a

(This article was published at the Australian Institute for International Affairs on June 30th, 2022. You can find it here.) New Prime...

Konstantin Khabensky in Trotsky. (Sreda Production Company) (a version of this blog post appeared here in Foreign Policy in 2018-- this...

(A version of this blog post appeared in The Washington Post's The Monkey Cage.) On August 15th, thousands of protesters took to the...