The reaction of many Russian opposition figures to the arrest of corrupt figures today ominously echoes the reaction of many ordinary Soviet citizens to the arrest and then execution of many corrupt officials in the late 1930s
Vladimir Putin will use Western values like direct democracy (referenda), freedom of speech and assembly and all the rest for the destruction of the West.
One of the greatest advantages Ukrainians have relative to Russians is the strength of horizontal ties in Ukrainian society, ties that allow them to cooperate with each other in ways that Russians rarely can.
Vladimir Putin’s dismissive remarks that a few Russian fans were able to defeat much more numerous British ones suggests he thinks he won the football wars in Europe.
Four times in the last 100 years, Russians have been deprived of a usable past and thus reduced to the status of children who accept anything new without asking questions,
June 22, 1941 – the Day Hitler and Stalin Ceased to Be Allies 2016-06-23 19:27:06 Staunton, VA, June 22, 2016 – Seventy-five years ago, Adolf Hitler attacked the USSR, thus ending a period of almost two years when he and Joseph Stalin were formally allies as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and a much […]
In 1983, Yury Andropov famously told the Communist Party Plenum that “if we speak openly, we still do not know sufficiently the society in which we live and work.” The same thing could be said of Vladimir Putin.
Russia’s power does “not even come close” to that of the US, Andrey Manoylo says, but Moscow has an advantage because “the US clearly has difficulties with predicting Russia’s activities” due to its simplistic models.
Twelve years ago on this date, Russian nationalists associated with the Russian National Unity organization murdered Nikolai Girenko, a St. Petersburg ethnographer.
Boris Yeltsin is gradually replacing Mikhail Gorbachev as the chief demon for Russian nationalists.
