Monatsarchive: April 2022

Luke Harding (yes, that Luke Harding), Guardian: The historian Anne Applebaum said the Russian government’s methods in Ukraine were darkly familiar. Today’s Moscow is replicating what Soviet forces did in occupied Poland, the Baltic states and the rest of central … Weiterlesen →

Together with Dzhemal, Dugin began to dabble more and more in the politics of the perestroika era. ‘Those two, they wanted power. They were looking for any sort of elevator to the top, and they found it in fascism’, said … Weiterlesen →

Timo Frasch, FAZ: Ha­ben Sie das Foto gesehen, auf dem der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj die Hand der EU-Parlamentspräsidentin Metsola fast zerquetscht, mit einem Unterarm, von dem Putin nur träumen kann?

One evening, a young man appeared at the Klyazma dacha, brought by an acquaintance. He looked no more than 18. His head was shaved, but he had an aristocratic bearing and a quick wit. He was immediately charismatic, and came … Weiterlesen →

In fact, the coming demise of the Soviet Union would vindicate not only ‘primordialist’ theories of nationalism, like Gumilev’s, which saw nationalism as immanent, natural and essential, a fundamental, unchanging and practically genetic identity; the constructivists – those who believed … Weiterlesen →

Wimbledon.com: …it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players with The Championships. It is therefore our intention, with deep regret, to decline entries from Russian and Belarusian players … Weiterlesen →

Gilbert Doctorow: An overthrow of Putin would lead to chaos, and very likely to genuine radicals assuming power.  Their aggressive inclinations for policy to the West would be underpinned by the vast majority of the Russian population, which, in Shakhnazarov’s … Weiterlesen →

Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch: In short, the West has seized a few yachts from Putin’s cronies, stopped serving Big Macs in Red Square, and slapped sanctions on everything except the one thing that really matters. With Russia supplying 40% of its gas and collecting an estimated $850 … Weiterlesen →

Delfi.lt: Anyone defying the ban will face fines. The parliament on Tuesday passed the respective amendments to the Law on Administrative Offences and the Law on Assemblies in a vote of 124 to one with two abstentions. The new legislation … Weiterlesen →

Akhmatova, like the spouses and relations of thousands of Leningraders sent to the camps, began the awful and tedious process of making the rounds of the various police offices and prisons, trying desperately to lobby the ‘organs’ – or the … Weiterlesen →