Newspeak as editorial policy: the Kremlin goes Orwellian on Orwell
A key concept in Nineteen Eighty-Four is “Newspeak.” A language designed by the novel’s IngSoc [English Socialist] Party…
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Putin’s Victory Parade – a horrific Orwellian exercise, Khots says
“’The Victory Parade’ in Putin’s Russia is unique in its absurdity, one in which an imperial army presents…
‘Enemy of the people’ is a Russian — not an American — term
An enormous and completely justified effort is now going to determine how Moscow influenced the US elections last…
Putin’s Syrian campaign a truly ‘Orwellian one,’ Kalashnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s military campaign in Syria, Moscow commentator Maxim Kalashnikov says, is “Orwellian in the purest way, completely…
Orwell Art: lessons on democracy, civic engagement and global citizenship
When a voice remains silent and a story untold, the world is deprived of some aspect of truth…