Posts Tagged
Russian neocolonialism

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  2019/09/15 - 18:57 • Op-ed, Ukraine

  Portnikov describes three often unacknowledged truths about Ukraine

  In a wide-ranging and even programmatic interview with the After Empire portal, Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov describes three often unacknowledged truths about Ukraine and Ukrainians that not only now play but will continue to...

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  2019/08/31 - 11:59 • Op-ed, Russian Aggression

  Portnikov: A cup that cracked

  The Church of Greece became the first after the Patriarchate of Constantinople to recognize the Ukrainian autocephaly. At first glance, this is not the most important recent news – especially against the background of what is...

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  2019/02/24 - 14:04 • International, Russian Aggression

  Ukraine has separated from Russia, but Russia hasn’t from Ukraine, Shelin says

  “The victory of the Kyiv revolution in February 2014 marked the final divorce of Ukraine and Russia and thus became one of the most important events of the 21st century, Sergey Shelin says; but in the five years since, Ukraine has made...

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  2019/02/17 - 13:54 • International, More

  Putinism is a genuinely new threat and not simply a revival of...

  Putinism represents a new threat to the world, one very different in fundamental ways from those of earlier imperial dictatorships, Igor Yakovenko says; and the greatest danger today is that many people are refusing to recognize how...

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  2019/01/11 - 12:03 • International, More

  Ukrainian autocephaly a defeat for Putin but a victory for a future...

  Many commentators have suggested that the grant of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is a great victory for Ukrainians but a defeat for Russians, but that is not the case, Andrey Illarionov says. It is a defeat for Vladimir...

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  2018/12/20 - 20:21 • Russian Aggression

  ‘Putin’s Ribbentrop’ emphasizes Moscow still wants all of Ukraine, Portnikov says

  Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow will not recognize the Donbas “republics” because to do so would be “to lose all the rest of Ukraine and leave it to the Nazis,” a clear indication from “Putin’s...

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• 2018/12/11 - 15:40 • International, More

  Putinism – a greater threat to humanity than anything the West has...

  Speaking to the Forum of Free Russia in Vilnius, Igor Yakovenko says that “over its many thousand years of history, humanity has not once been faced with any challenge and mortal threat comparable to the Putin regime,” a regime that...

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  2018/04/21 - 12:17 • International, More

  Broad coalition of non-Russians launch Internet petition drive against Putin’s language policies

  Representatives of a significant cross-section of non-Russian nations now within the borders of the Russian Federation have launched an online petition on Change.org to oppose Moscow’s plans to make the study of non-Russian languages...

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  2017/06/06 - 01:01 • International, More

  The worst Russophobes in the world are in the Kremlin, Kornyev says

  Russian leaders like Vladimir Putin routinely denounce others as Russophobes, but most of those they target do not hate or fear the Russian people, Sergey Kornyev says. In fact, the real Russophobes are those in the Kremlin itself who seek...

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  2017/05/12 - 12:06 • International, More

  Russia’s ideology is ‘traditional great powerness cleansed of communism,’ Pavlova says

  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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