Tag Archives: belarus

Translation: Putin On Russia’s Eurasian Future

Posted on October 4, 2011 by AK

Things just get keep getting better and better. Not only is Putin returning, but he is also bringing with him a bunch of new, innovative ideas on foreign policy centered around Eurasian integration, on which he expounded in a recent … Continue reading →

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Translation: It’s Time To Shove Off To Belarus!

Posted on October 2, 2011 by AK

In the vein of my recent posts on the myth of Russian emigration, I am now publishing a translation of Уехать в Белоруссию (“Go Off To Belarus”) by Maksim Schweiz writing for Rosbalt news agency. It is a joint effort … Continue reading →

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Russia’s Demographic Resilience V

Posted on February 3, 2011 by AK

I’ve posted Russia’s demographic story for 2010 at Arctic Progress: Russia’s Population Registers Small Decline In 2010. In summary, the excess deaths from the once-in-10,000-years heatwave canceled out most of the increase in births, causing the rate of natural decrease … Continue reading →

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Russia isn’t hated by (most of) its neighbors

Posted on June 8, 2010 by AK

One of the staples of the neocon-Russophobe narrative is that Russia is alone in the world, utterly bereft of friends, left only with the likes of Nicaragua and Nauru to indulge it in its anachronistic “imperial fantasies”. Not really. Conflating … Continue reading →

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Crisis Demography in Eurasia

Posted on May 19, 2010 by AK

In a recent post, Mark Adomanis pointed out that the Russian economy has done significantly better than many other East European nations during the recent crisis and is now mounting a strong recovery. He also speculated on the effects of … Continue reading →

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Sublime News #2

Posted on February 27, 2010 by AK

1. In response to Gregor’s surprise over my lack of mention of the Dubai assassination – don’t think it’s important or that anything substantial will come out of it. Britain may make a media ruckus over the faking of their … Continue reading →

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Voice of the People Part 3

Posted on January 3, 2010 by AK

This is a summary of opinion polls conducted by the Levada-Center, Russia’s Gallup, since February 2009, and continues from Part 1 and Part 2. Along with the original post Lovely Levada, this series constitutes a unique English-language reference for social … Continue reading →

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Victory Day Special: The Poisonous Myths of the Eastern Front

Posted on May 9, 2009 by AK

За нас за вас и за десант и за спецназ! The Red Army was the single greatest contributor to the defeat of Nazi Germany sixty-four years ago, a truly evil empire based on slavery and oppression, and responsible for the … Continue reading →

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News 7 Apr: NATO Founders, Western Media Deconstructed

Posted on April 7, 2008 by AK

America’s desire to have Ukraine and Georgia accede to MAP foundered on European opposition from Germany, France and (somewhat surprisingly) the UK, despite Saakashvili’s implicit comparison of this to Nazi appeasement. Nonetheless, this is good for NATO as an alliance … Continue reading →

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