Chris Snow at Medium exposes Russian propaganda, means and ends. Excerpt: Orwell wrote the following about fascism in 1936: “If you pretend that it is merely an aberration which will presently pass off of its own accord, you are dreaming a dream from which you...
Jesus called Satan “a liar and the father of lies.” There can be no doubt about the camp to which Putin belongs. Elena Gorokhova, in the the New York Times back in 2011: Vranyo is a special Russian word for lying — a special form of lying. I learned of it...
Chris Snow, at Medium, with part one of a two-part series of the fall of the Russian Empire. Excerpt: The Soviet Union has been collapsing in waves since 1989. The first stage of the Soviet Empire decline (1970s and 80s), was followed by a second phase of...
At the Wall Street Journal (paywalled except for the lede) Tunku Varadarajan reveals: Excerpt: Cyril Hovorun, a 48-year-old Ukrainian, has worked in the innermost sanctum of the Russian establishment. An Orthodox monk, he was for 10 years the private secretary and...
BY YULIA LATYNINA, at The Hill: Excerpt: To understand the relationship, we must turn to a speech given on Dec. 1 at a forum in Sochi by one of the most mysterious and influential figures of the Russian court: Mikhail Kovalchuk, currently head of the famous...
