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Putin and Milosevic: Blood brothers
Slobodan Milosevic and Vladimir Putin are cut from the same cloth. Just as the West’s experience with Milosevic…
Kremlin has lost control of the future, but also the past
Russia, it is sometime said, is a country with an unpredictable past; but Russian governments have worked hard…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 2: Hitler’s Anschluss
Read the previous part: The interwar prelude If Stalin had an ambition for the conquest of Poland, so…
Putin making the same mistake Hitler did, Piontkovsky says
After meeting with the leaders of Britain and France, Adolf Hitler concluded that he was dealing with non-entities…
Russia remains a Byzantine state and that may doom it, ‘Gazeta’ editors say
The photographs of Vladimir Putin sitting on what many falsely supposed was the throne of Byzantine emperors have…
10 reasons why Ukraine’s Donbas is not and will not become a Northern Ireland
At a time when many commentators are seeking to explain what is going on in Ukraine by searching…
Is Ukraine 2015 going to be a repetition of Hungary 1956?
Moscow’s actions in Ukraine now “strikingly recall the behavior of the Soviet Union” during the Cold War which…
Three more historical parallels for Putin
Whenever people are confronted by changes that call into question existing paradigms, their first reaction typically is to…