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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: espionage
Wikileaks As A Mirror On The West
EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.Ru (Wikileaks как зеркальное отображение Запада); almost as if to prove my point here! A foreign “subversive” journalist, driven by fevered idealism, publishes reams of leaked internal documents from an Authority … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile, The Sublime Cables
Tagged assange, authoritarianism, azerbaijan, cablegate, china, corruption, crime, espionage, feminism, georgia, imperialism, islam, islamophobia, rant, russia, surkov, sweden, terrorism, usa, western hypocrisy, western media, wikileaks
25 Comments
Spooks, Mercs or Merchants over Iceland?
This is a reprint of a post from Arctic Progress. Back when Iceland tipped over into financial collapse during 2008 and the UK seized Icelandic banks’ assets using anti-terrorist laws as fig cover, Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar stated that Russia … Continue reading
Posted in Arctic Visions, Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged arctic, espionage, iceland, military, nato
7 Comments
The Death of Sergei Tretyakov & Spook Flame Wars
Sergei Tretyakov, the Russian traitor / US patriot (whatever you prefer), died June 13, 2010, at the age of 53. The Russian “illegals” were rounded up on June 27. The two week gap is exactly the same as the amount … Continue reading
Translation: Russia’s Phantom Tandem, Real Triumvirate and the Kremlin Clan Wars
In the post with A Good Treaty’s interview, the commentator peter recommended this book, ВЛАСТЬ-2010: 60 биографий (Power in 2010: 60 biographies) by Vladimir Pribylovsky, as a “useful primer on who’s who in the Kremlin”. I happen to agree – with … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Translations
Tagged authoritarianism, corruption, espionage, human rights, liberasty, medvedev, politics, putin, russia, russians, russophobes, translation, western hypocrisy, western media
38 Comments
Interview with Kevin Rothrock (A Good Treaty)
Kicking off the Watching the Russia Watchers interview series at S/O is the promising new blogger A Good Treaty. He is a DC-based foreign policy analyst who prefers a “good treaty with Russia” to only treating with a good Russia: as a … Continue reading
The Road to Economic Sovereignty
Review of “Kicking Away the Ladder” (H. Chang) Chang, Ha-Joon – Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002) Category: economy; history; industrial policy; Rating: 5/5 Summary: Kicking Away the Ladder:How the Economic and Intellectual Histories of Capitalism Have … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged china, corruption, economy, education, espionage, finance, france, germany, history, international relations, japan, review, Reviews, russia, sweden, uk, usa, western hypocrisy
5 Comments
Shifting Winds: The End Of Pax Americana
Every once in a while, there occurs a major shift in the international arena. The First World War and its consequences were the seminal change of the last century, collapsing ancient empires and ushering in a new era of ethno-nationalist … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged central asia, chaos, china, economy, energy, espionage, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, iran, islam, israel, middle east, military, morale, nato, peak oil, poland, resource depletion, technology, ukraine, usa, vision, war
20 Comments
Myth of the Yellow Peril
Chinese in Russia number in the hundreds of thousands, so the Far East is not in danger of demographic domination by the Chinese. Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged china, demography, espionage, geopolitics, international relations, military
12 Comments
News 2 May: Russia’s Second Oil Peak
For all the noise being made this month about Georgia, about NATO, about Tibet, etc, possibly the most portentous is that it seems Russia hit its oil peak (strictly speaking, its second – the first happened in 1987), well in … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, china, climate change, demography, economy, education, energy, espionage, geopolitics, georgia, hi-tech, history, humor, military, news 2008, opinion poll, space
5 Comments
Editorial: Lying Liars and their Lies
1. The Myth of Russian Corruption In this blog, I have documented how a) corruption in Russia is similar to the average for middle-income countries and b) it has improved slightly under Putin. This is backed by data from the … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged corruption, espionage, medvedev, politics, russophobes, western media
5 Comments