Trump’s Orwellian “rigged” campaign is straight out of Putin’s propaganda playbook
The US 2016 presidential campaign is nothing short of Orwellian. A billionaire real estate mogul who’s lived the…
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Project to monitor left-right coalitions launched at Euromaidan Press
Reft & light, a new independent project to monitor authoritarian left-right alliances and the Ukrainian far right has been…
The far-right front of Russian active measures in Europe
Tactical collaboration with the European, especially German, extreme right characterised even the Cold War period of Russian history…
Pro-Russian activism of Mateusz Piskorski, detained in Poland
On May 18-19, 2016, the media reported that Poland's Internal Security Agency searched the homes of the leaders of…
Moscow enjoying great success with far left parties in Europe, new study finds
Vladimir Putin has achieved major success in reaching out to far right parties in Europe, a development that…
Ethnic Russian Muslims – an increasing problem for Moscow, experts say
In one of the longest, most closely researched and heavily footnoted studied published to date, Rais Suleymanov says…
Putin allying with Europe’s far right to change Europe, Eidman says
Most commentators have suggested that Vladimir Putin is supporting the Russian extreme right to force the governments of…
Russian fascist militants give money to Swedish counterparts
One of the previous posts addressed the issue of two Russian far right organisations, namely the Rodina party…
Russian politicians building an international extreme right alliance
Russia seems to be getting serious about building an international alliance of extreme right parties that would aim…
The three pins of a deadly grenade near the Ukrainian parliament
In the course of the violent protests that took place by the Verkhovna Rada (the building of the…
Spectre of Ukrainian “fascism”: Information wars, political manipulation and reality
The 2014 Ukrainian revolution made the country’s far right a topic of international debate. Once the object of…
Far-right activist “Manson” on trial in Kyiv for killing of pro-Russian journalist Buzina
Andriy Medvedko, also known under his alias “Manson”, is a 26-year-old far-right activist who has recently been named…
The Azov regiment is “outraged” by statements in the USA House of Representatives
The House of Representatives of the US Congress is considering an amendment refusing to train the Azov regiment…
State of EU-Russia relations: A brief analysis of the EP vote
On 10 June 2015, the European Parliament adopted a resolution "on the state of EU-Russia relations". It is…
What does the fascist conference in St. Petersburg tell us about contemporary Russia?
On the 9th of May, Russia will plunge into ritualised mass celebrations to commemorate the 70th anniversary of…
Cast your vote for the most lunatic fascist at the International Russian Conservative Forum
The "International Russian Conservative" aka fascism Forum that was hosted by the Russian party ‘Rodina,’ a close ally of…
5 explanations for the Russian “Kyiv junta” myth
On 22 March 2015, Russia's party ‘Rodina’ (‘Motherland’), which caucuses with Putin’s ‘United Russia’ party and was formerly led by…
Russia hosts Fascist Forum in St. Petersburg
Today Russian conservatives welcomed members of Europe's far-right ultranationalist parties to participate in a forum entitled "International Russian…
Timothy Snyder: Ukraine is but one aspect of a much larger strategy that threatens European order
In the year since Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, Russia has done much to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty. It annexed Crimea…
The uneasy reality of antifascism in Ukraine
For almost twenty years of Ukraine’s independence, the term “antifascism” used to have very limited currency in the…