Is Trump a Sleeper Agent for Moscow?
The media are having a field day over the fact that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke supports Donald Trump for president. Trump...
Andreas Umland: Forget Ukraine Fatigue
How the Kremlin’s Hybrid War against Ukraine Spoiled the Euromaidan Revolution, Andreas Umland wrote for Intersection Project.
Contrary to the high expectations following the formation...
Jens Siegert: On Taboos, Glasnost and Anti-glasnost
Source: Russia Blog (Heinrich Boell Foundation).
The first Russian words I learnt (after ‘da’, ‘net’, ‘na zdorovye’ and ‘Sputnik’) were perestroika and glasnost – ‘restructuring’...
Putin Allying with Europe’s Far Right Not Just to Change European Policies but to...
Most commentators have suggested that Vladimir Putin is supporting the Russian extreme right to force the governments of Germany and other European countries to...
What explains the sometimes obsessive anti-Americanism of Russian elites?
Speaking earlier this month at the Munich Security Conference, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned that his country and the West are headed towards...
Gross incompetence
Besides oil an gas, other major exports for the Kremlin include whataboutism and other logical fallacies. This story, however, concerns domestic consumption of whataboutism....
The Useful Idiots Show
During the 1950s, there was a term that was sometimes used to describe people who were exploited by Soviet communists to publicly support their...
‘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...