‘Russian Identity is the Soviet Identity of Today,’ Russian Government Advisor Says
Supra-national Russian identity today, Anton Bredikhin says, is the successor of “the Soviet man” and “the Soviet people” and is thus different from and...
The Rise of the New Authoritarians?
The West cannot resort to Cold War–style containment strategies with China and Russia, John Hemmings wrote for The national interest.
The news last week that...
Gulliver Cragg: Lessons from an outrageous film
Paul Moreira, a French filmmaker, is famous for hard-hitting investigations that show viewers “what the authorities don’t want you to see.” So French-speaking reporters...
Just How Bad is Putin? Ever More People Are Counting the Ways
As the number of Vladimir Putin’s violations of international law and normal morality grows, ever more people are offering lists of the actions for...
Putin vs. Lenin?
Last week, AP reported that President Putin had “denounced Lenin and his Bolshevik government for their brutal repressions and accused him of having placed...
On “The Masks of the Revolution” – and on the ethics of journalism
This is a personal opinion post published ahead of the screening of “Les Masques de la Révolution”, on French Canal +, on 01/02/2016
A few...
‘Russia is interested in ruining Ukraine’s image ahead of Dutch referendum’ – Fedchenko
It looks like Kremlin's traditional tactics to use fake video threats, says StopFake.org website founder
Ukraine Todays Viewpoint is joined by the director of Mohyla School...
The Flaws of the Putinversteher’s Russian Hermeneutics
How the escapist axioms of Western apologies of Kremlin policies distort our understanding of the origins and motives of Russia’s current domestic and foreign...
Stereotypes paralyze Russia’s potential for change
The Russian opposition and Western analysts have pointed out repeatedly that Russia’s authorities are actually a “Chekist clan” – former KGB officers who obtained...
Information Warfare: Europe’s Time to Change the Narrative
Vladimir Putin receives a lot of sympathy in Europe. And not just from Russian speakers, but also from nationalists of all stripes who see...