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In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: chechnya
Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn’t Know It From The Western Media
The above photo, part of a photo report by Ridus, shows the Anti-Orange protest at Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow on February 4th. Does that look like 35,000 people to you, let alone 20,000 or 15,000?Because those were the most commonly cited figures … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged chaos, chechnya, liberasty, politics, protest, putin, rant, russia, russian media, western hypocrisy, western media
61 Comments
Interview with Mark Chapman (The Kremlin Stooge)
Next in our line of Watching the Russia Watchers interviews is Mark Chapman, the fiery Canadian sailor who’s been blazing a path of destruction through the fetid Russophobe ranks since July 2010. That was when he first set up The Kremlin Stooge, … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Watching the Russia Watchers
Tagged arctic, blogging, canada, chechnya, corruption, futurism, geopolitics, history, human rights, international relations, interview, khodorkovsky, liberasty, medvedev, oligarchs, politics, putin, russia, russians, russophobes, sochi, terrorism, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
15 Comments
In Which La Russophobe Interviews The Russophile Sociopath Blogging At Sublime Oblivion
Two weeks ago, I received a Facebook message from Kim Zigfeld, she of the infamous La Russophobe, asking me if I was interested in an interview with her. It didn’t take long for me to come to the right decision. … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged chechnya, corruption, georgia, human rights, humor, imperialism, interview, khodorkovsky, kprf, liberasty, medvedev, nato, navalny, nemtsov, pakistan, politics, putin, rant, rogozin, russia, russophobes, usa, western hypocrisy, western media, yeltsin
19 Comments
Chechnya, A Once And Future War?
Truly, if Willian Burns were to issue an anthology of his Moscow cables during his 2005-2008 ambassadorship, I’d seriously consider buying it. Just consider this cable from May 2006, on Chechnya’s “Once and Future War”, a nuanced US view of … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, The Sublime Cables
Tagged cable, chechnya, corruption, human rights, imperialism, islam, nationalism, politics, russia, terrorism, usa, war, wikileaks, william burns
7 Comments
Cable Intermezzo: A Caucasus Wedding
One of the most endearing and surprising cables came from William Burns, US Ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008: a beautifully written account of a Daghestani wedding scene that might as well have come from a latter-day Prisoner of … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, The Sublime Cables
Tagged caucasus, chechnya, daghestan, kadyrov, politics, romance, russia
5 Comments
Interview with Peter Lavelle (Russia Today)
The next installment of our Watching the Russia Watchers series at S/O features an interview with Peter Lavelle, the main political analyst at the Russia Today TV network, host of its CrossTalk debate show and Untimely Thoughts blogger. (He also … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Watching the Russia Watchers
Tagged blogging, chechnya, collapse, corruption, futurism, georgia, global warming, human rights, international relations, interview, islam, islamophobia, israel, journalism, palestine, politics, putin, rise of the rest, russia, russians, russophobes, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
13 Comments
Sublime News #8 – #9
1. The revolution in Kyrgyzstan to be covered in Sublime News #10 – this issue is packed enough as it is. For now, read Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Resurgence (free Stratfor) for a summary. 2. Putin made a conciliatory speech on the 70th … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime News
Tagged afghanistan, asia, authoritarianism, caucasus, central asia, chechnya, china, climate change, coal, collapse, demography, economy, energy, humor, hungary, imperialism, india, iraq, islam, israel, kyrgyzstan, liberasty, mexico, middle east, military, news 2010, north korea, palestine, peak oil, poland, resource depletion, rise of the rest, russia, russophobes, shale gas, thermoeconomics, turkey, uk, ukraine, usa, venezuela, volcanos
9 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
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
46 Comments
Top 50 Russophobe Myths
This is a list of common Russophobe myths about Russia and its people, and the successor to a March 2008 post on a similar theme. Please be sure to check the supporting notes at the bottom before dismissing this as neo-Soviet … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged baltics, chechnya, china, communism, core article, culture, economy, geopolitics, georgia, history, human rights, international relations, kosovo, liberasty, medvedev, military, morale, opinion poll, putin, russians, russophobes, serbia, soviet union, stalin, ukraine, visegrad, western hypocrisy, western media
44 Comments