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…
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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 only ‘color revolution’ likely in Russia now would be ‘brown’
“The only ‘color revolution,’ which is likely in Russia at the present moment,” Vladimir Pastukhov says, would be…
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…
Fascism exploited and distorted in Putin’s Russia for propaganda’s sake
For most of the 20th century, the Russians lived under the iron grip of an authoritarian Marxist-Leninist form…
Putin ‘has caught up and surpassed Mussolini’
With the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin has caught up with and surpassed Italian Fascist leader Benito…
Russian analyst: ‘There is nothing specifically Russian’ in Putin’s ‘Russian world’
“There is nothing [specifically] Russian in ‘the Russian world,” according to Konstantin Zarubin. Its political philosophy reduces to…
Fascism in Putin’s Russia likely to be fascism of the extreme left
Most in Russia and many in the West are so used to thinking of fascism and especially Nazism…
German parliamentarian demands to ban Russian fascist Dugin from Schengen area
Opposition to the planned trip to Germany of Alexander Dugin, Kremlin loudspeaker and one of the most infamous…
Russian politician: Putin’s war in Ukraine opened the way to fascism in Russia
The war Vladimir Putin is conducting in Ukraine is leading not just to the economic destruction of Russia…
Aleksandr Dugin and the SYRIZA connection
Following the previous article on the far left/right coalition government in Greece, I was asked to provide more…
Letter to the editor: This is not just a Ukrainian war. It will spread. All war does.
This morning I woke up to watching live stream of hundreds of Auschwitz survivors celebrating the 70 year…
Nationalism and fascism in contemporary Russia
Today’s reality is that fascism, Nazism and patriotism in contemporary Russian society are now one and the same.…
Higher stage of Putinism
(A far-sighted article from April this year. The author, a Soviet political prisoner, victim of a stabbing in…
Ukrofascist-in-law and inveterate friend of the Kyiv junta visits Lviv
Viktor Shenderovich, a columnist for Gordon and a famous Russian writer and satirist, gives us his impressions of…
Ukrainian war “radicalizing Russian extreme right”
Members of the Russian extreme right are taking part in the fighting in Ukraine on both sides, and…
If Russia isn’t the West, then what is she? Full text of article accused of extremism and censored in Russia
Bad news for Russian officials, TV preachers, and fascist ideologists: Russian culture became great when Russia became Europe.…
Ukrainians in Spain fight the anti-Ukrainian movement in universities
The biggest Spanish newspaper El País wrote that Ukraine considers the cultural cycle at the prestigious Madrid Complutense…
More pro-Russian far right conferences in Europe
One of the consequences of the Kremlin’s adventurism in Ukraine appears to have been an invigoration of European…