
Victor Monteverdi (a pseudonym) is an independent observer.

After Putin
Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin–all were at the helm of unintended revolutions that centralized Russian authority.

Russian Roulette
It’s high time to discuss not only Putin’s errors—but our own.

Russia’s War in Ukraine: Putin’s Soviet Delusion
Soviet mythology is a driving force in the Kremlin’s justification of war. On the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, experts address the long shadow of the USSR. Part two in a series.