“Crimean saboteurs” – latest victims of Kremlin’s hostage strategy
The escalations in occupied Crimea on 7-8 August, in the course of which Russia has accused Ukraine of staging “terror…
Peace with the Newts. Will Donbas turn into a new Munich?
The Karel Čapek novel War with the Newts was written two years before Munich. And it describes in…
Understand and don’t forgive
Western leaders confer. They confer on how to react to the latest round of Russian aggression, which has…
St. Petersburg conscripts sent to Eastern Ukraine
The 138th Motorized Rifle Brigade RF, which will soon be sent to Eastern Ukraine, is made up largely…
Higher stage of Putinism
(A far-sighted article from April this year. The author, a Soviet political prisoner, victim of a stabbing in…
Russian and foreign volunteers in Ukraine: lost idealism and ennui
Photo: ‘Batman’ unit from Saint Petersburg In February 1999, Aleksandr Borodai, son of a Eurasianist philosopher and Igor…
The Drug of Independence
Perhaps nowhere in the world was the desire for Scottish independence as strong as it was in Russia.…