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2017/05/23 - 05:34 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Vladimir Putin’s “rabid” anti-Ukrainian propaganda resembles and is intended to have a similar outcome to Soviet state anti-Semitism, or “anti-Zionism” as it was called, Yevgeny Ikhlov says. And like the earlier one, Putin’s...
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2017/05/12 - 12:06 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Both supporters and critics of the Putin regime often say his regime lacks an ideology – Aleksandr Podrabinek is only the latest – but in fact, Irina Pavlova says, it does: “traditional Russian great powerness (velikoderzhaviye),...
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2017/05/12 - 11:43 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
The Izborsky Club, a group of Russian nationalist intellectuals that has often been extremely influential in the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin, is now calling for an updated version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, an accord that like the 1939...
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2017/05/06 - 08:11 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Because imperialism has been and remains at the root of almost all of Russia’s problems, Aleksandr Skobov says, Russian opposition parties, which today are almost as imperialist as the Kremlin, must make the right of free and unilateral...
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2017/05/02 - 09:11 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Alexei Navalny and the liberals who support him have focused almost exclusively on the issue of corruption, a stance that reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of Russia’s largest problem and in fact distracts attention from it,...
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2017/03/29 - 21:52 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Arguing that the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are more russophobic than any other nation in the world, the Russian propaganda site, SputnikPogrom, outlines how Moscow must work to split up the three countries into smaller units...
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2017/02/06 - 06:47 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, War in the Donbas
Like many Russian nationalists, Vladimir Putin has long insisted that Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are not separate nations but a single “triune” people who thus should be part of a single state; but this week, his actions in...
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2017/01/12 - 11:35 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Moscow analyst Yuri Christensen says that Moscow plans to “export separatism” across the entire former Soviet space, including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to break those countries to its will, confident that it can do so because the...
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2017/01/11 - 11:57 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Talk the supposedly “hybrid” nature of the Russian state now with its insistence that everyone avoid comparing it with any other regime intentionally or not obscures how Putin “reproduced precisely the Stalinist mechanism of power”...
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2016/12/26 - 20:42 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics
Twenty-five years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev bowed to the inevitable and handed over the nuclear codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, thus bringing to an end the inglorious history of the Soviet Union which Ronald Reagan precisely...
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