Thursday, May 2, 2024

Opinions

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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...

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...