The draft Doctrine on Information Security posted this week on the website of the Russian Security Council contains provisions which threaten not only the citizens of Russia but its neighbors and the West.
Putin’s social compact with the middle class is in danger of rupture because the Kremlin is now attacking the middle class, the ten to fifteen million people who have been able to achieve something.
The literature on the GULAG is enormous, but that about another group of Stalin’s victims, the “special settlers,” is far smaller, even though several million people were deported.
The approval by the Duma of the so-called Yarova-Ozerov package of legislation will among other things drive many followers even of Russia’s “traditional” religions into the underground.
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 […]
