Tuesday, February 08, 2022

Finlandization

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The Silent Estate? [Vaikeneva valtiomahti?] by Esko Salminen. Kleio ja nykypäivä. Edita. Helsinki, 1996. 323 pp. In this newly-published stu...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Welcome to the refugees

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Nicolas Tenzer, on the Poland-Belarus standoff: The use by the criminal regime of Belarus of migrants, who were purposely brought to this co...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

Russia 'at war' with UK, says former British spy

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Russia 'at war' with UK, says former British spy    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4V0u0EU9ro
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Finland and Sweden face Zapad 2017

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As Russia's Zapad 2017 military exercise across the Baltic Sea approaches, Finland and Sweden feel vulnerable in a new way. Former U.S. ...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Russia and its Conflict with Islam

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At Hoover Institution, an excerpt from Robert Service''s upcoming Hoover Press book Russia and its Islamic World : It is widely as...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Multipolarity and Ukraine

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Stephen Blank, in Kyiv Post : The only sovereignty Moscow recognizes or respects is its own. It certainly does not believe itself to be...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Irina Ratushinskaya

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I was very sad to hear the news of the passing of the Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya, some of whose work I translated in the 1980s and 199...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Panic and sabotage

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The Russian Reader has published an English translation of the Novaya Gazeta article by Elena Milashina, in which she describes the backg...
Friday, June 30, 2017

The Last of the Colonialists

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A remarkable essay in The American Interest by analyst Vladislav Inozemtsev on the last of the great European empires: To pump more mon...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Dugin and Klokotov shaped Russia's current anti-Western strategy

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An article  by Charles Firth, published last March on the news.com.au website, makes it clear that the Ukraine war, Brexit and the Trump...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Protest Activity Growing in Russia Despite Putin’s Apparent Lack of Attention, Experts Say

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Paul Goble             Staunton, June 18 – Protest actions have been increasing in number, size, intensity and subject matter and are like...

Putin May Be Crying ‘Wolf’ Once Too Often, Gudkov Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, June 12 – After a brief break from its “besieged fortress” rhetoric, the Kremlin has returned to the idea...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Moscow Worried Russian ‘Too Obviously Ceasing to Be Language of Majority’ in Ukraine, Shchetkina Says

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by Paul Goble   Staunton, June 11 – The Kremlin isn’t pleased that the number of Ukrainians who use Russian is declining, but it is far...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Jihad Freelancers

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http://www.4freerussia.org/jihad-freelancers/ JIHAD FREELANCERS jun 08 2017 by Denis Sokolov The demonization of the Russian presid...
Thursday, June 01, 2017

The Russian Government and the 1999 Apartment Bombings - 2

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 Catherine Fitzpatrick took a different view of this issue. Her extensive and detailed reply was published on her Minding Russia blog in 201...