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Monthly Archives: August 2009
The Nazi-Soviet Pact as Second Munich
On the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of non-aggression between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, signed on August 23, 1939 (also my birthday!), historians, ideologues and everyone in between inevitably fall into a game of recriminations, revisionism and … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged baltics, britain, france, history, human rights, international relations, poland, politics, russophobes, soviet union, stalin, visegrad, western hypocrisy, western media
65 Comments
Perils of Water
Three interesting stories, all tied with Russia and water. 1. The explosion at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Siberia. Though the official Russian version is that it was a blown transformer, the Chechen separatists / terrorists are claiming that it’s their … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged chechnya, corruption, georgia, international relations, military, nato, politics, putin, usa, video, western media
7 Comments
Translation: “Radio Liberty – The Liberty of Mendacity”
One of my readers, Fedia Kriukov, kindly pointed me to a LiveJournal blog post by Ksenia Larina from August 13th, 2009. She’s been working with the liberal “Echo of Moscow” radio station since 1991 and her husband, Rinat Valiulin, had … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Translations
Tagged corruption, human rights, liberasty, russophobes, translation, western hypocrisy, western media
13 Comments
One Nation under CCTV
Now we’ve all known for some time that Britain is degenerating into a neoliberal version of East Germany, with its endemic surveillance and database wet dreams, and few things really surprise me any more, but every so often it manages … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, britain, collapse, corruption, crime, demography, economy, eire, energy, human rights, matrix, politics, resource depletion, scotland, western media
16 Comments
New Russia-Georgia War?
Whispers of war are heard in the Caucasus, as the anniversary of last year’s South Ossetian War approaches. Will the guns of August be fired in anger to mark the occasion? Vote below. This poll will be open throughout August. … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged armenia, chechnya, geopolitics, georgia, imperialism, international relations, military, nato, war, western hypocrisy, western media
45 Comments
Reconsidering Parshev
In most Russian bookstores, there is a bookshelf or two dedicated to so-called “patriotic literature” – reappraisals of Stalin against “liberal revisionism”, overviews of Russia’s secret super-weapons, the exploits of its special forces and Russian theo-philosophy. Much of it is … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, central asia, china, economy, geopolitics, georgia, history, morale, peak oil, resource depletion, ukraine, usa, vision
13 Comments
Missing the Forest for the Trees
Russia is commonly represented as one of the most corrupt countries in the world in the Western media, ruled over by Kremlin clans who sugarcoat their kleptocracy with bombastic nationalism. The most oft-cited evidence comes from Transparency International. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged corruption, crime, economy, guest, russians, western media
6 Comments