Russia bashing and the demonization of Vladimir Putin are the West’s new political media fads of our time. The tone of the commentary is getting increasingly strident and any boundaries of what’s permissible disappear. Hating and getting things wrong related to Russia and Russians is a one-way bet; there is no […]
Eurasian Union
¥uan and Waterloo of Petro$ (II)
Part I The BRICS The BRICS met in 2013 in Durban, South Africa, to, among other steps, create their own credit rating agency, sidelining the “biased agendas” of the Moody’s/Standard & Poor’s variety. They endorsed plans to create a joint foreign exchange reserves pool. Initially it will include US$100 billion. […]
Is Tyagnibok thwarting US-EU agenda for Ukraine?
The Ukrainian Svoboda political party, whose leader Oleg Tyagnybok is known for his implacable contempt for the people like «Moskals» (derogatory for Russians), «Yids» (a Jewish slang ethnonym of Yiddish origin) and «Lyakhy» (the old Ukrainian exonym for the Poles), failed to reach the threshold level needed to get into […]
¥uan and Waterloo of Petro$ (I)
Ongoing western sanctions due Ukraine are pushing China and Russia to close cooperation – the great Eurasian axis is already in motion. Despite the headlines in mainstream western media related to civil war in Ukraine the primary war is being fought monetarily. The Russia-China Strategic Partnership (RCSP) is truly global […]
The West’s Fatal Russia Mistakes: 1989-2014
As Germany and many other nations celebrate the 25th anniversary of the demolition of Berlin Wall, the event which symbolized the end of the Cold War, it is important to analyze why U.S. – Russia relations are presently at an even more confrontational state, and why Francis Fukuyama’s famously-proclaimed the […]
Ukraine suffers humanitarian, economic and military disaster (III)
Part I Part II The situation in religious sphere is getting worse too. Nazis restarted taking cathedrals, beating priests and church members and capturing property. The Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, canonically related to the Patriarchate of Moscow, the Metropolitan of Borispol and Brovarsk Anthony stated accidents of naked […]
Ukraine suffers humanitarian, economic and military disaster (II)
Part I Ukrainian Nazism is deeply rooted. Mikola Mikhnovsky, the author of “The Independent Ukraine” manifest, called to hate one’s wife, if she was Muscovite. The Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN) was founded in the 1930-s of XX century. It was tainted by the cooperation with Nazi Germany and the […]
Ukraine suffers humanitarian, economic and military disaster (I)
Not long ago the main purposes of the non-profit NGO “Ukrainians of Russia”, which I have the honor to chair, were promotion and popularization of the Ukrainian culture in Russia, organization of cultural events, participation in scientific and educational programs devoted to Ukraine, its people, history and culture. Unfortunately, since […]
Stop Postulating the Clash of Civilizations
The British are mystified by their Muslim citizens becoming “jihadists” and joining the so-called Islamic State. They are horrified by the beheading of an American journalist by “John” a British citizen and member of the IS. I must admit that I, too am horrified. It is not Islamic at all. […]
The Galician Backhand (II)
Part I Playing With Fire Bandera’s fascist ideas were rightfully repressed during the Soviet period, but after Ukraine’s independence in 1991, they began to attract followers anew. Although they remained largely on the political fringe, the extreme nationalists received a boost in legitimacy when former President Viktor Yuschenko (the hero […]
The Galician Backhand (I)
Ever since it regained independence in 1918, Poland has sought to restore its former Commonwealth in one way or another. The region of Galicia, historically shared between Poles and Ukrainians, has been the focal point of this mission, both then and now. Poland, while arrogantly convincing itself that it is […]
Putin to Western elites: Play-time is over
For the last days the Western media did their best to ignore Russian president’s speech at the Valdai Club gathering in Sochi or to twist its meaning. Regardless of what you think or don’t think of Putin this is probably the most important political speech since Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech […]
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