Andrew E. Kramer of the New York Times reports on how how bad elements of the Russian Orthodox Church are waging war against Ukraine. Excerpt: KYIV, Ukraine — Andriy Pavlenko, an Orthodox church abbot in eastern Ukraine, seemed to be on a selfless...
Per the Daily Mail Online, Excerpt: Megalomania induced by cancer drugs was a factor in Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch his disastrous war in Ukraine, new Western intelligence analysis claims. A senior spy official from Denmark told how ‘delusions of...
Chris Snow, at Medium, with part two of a two-part series of the fall of the Russian Empire. Excerpt: The Soviet collapse didn’t begin or end in 1991. The empire has been collapsing in waves since 1989. Phases of recovery and centralisation of power are followed by...
Chris Snow, at Medium, lays out four ways that Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine may end. Excerpt: We knew since 1986, since Chernobyl, that they were evil and dangerous but not particularly competent. “What emerged as a result of the KGB takeover...
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...
