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Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Analysis: The Riddle of Why Russians Don't Protest Against the War in Ukraine

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by Nomad Although now a British citizen, Oxford-educated political philosopher Vlad Vexler was born in the Soviet Union. For this reason...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Alexander Nevzorov: Where Putin's Disastrous War in Ukraine Will Leave Russia

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by Nomad Russian and Soviet television journalist, a film director and a former member of the Russian parliament, Alexander Nevzorov is...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

Putin's Disastrous Misadventure in Ukraine

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by Nomad
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Russian Invasion of Ukraine: A Dark Day for Europe

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by Nomad
Monday, February 1, 2021

Scenes from the Alexei Navalny Protests in Russia

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by Nomad Embed from Getty Images Throughout Russia, demonstrators launched a second round of protests calling for jailed opposition lead...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Democracy's Darker Side and How It Has Been Exploited By Putin and the Far Right

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by Nomad "The Tyranny of the Minorities" The other night, I was talking to a conservative friend about democracy. He ...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Obsolete Ideals: The Truth Behind Putin's Eulogy for Western Liberalism

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by Nomad In Conflict with the Majority Q uite a few eyebrows were raised recently when President Vladimir Putin, in an interview...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

The Colorful Mr. Sater: A Few Notes on Trump's Former Business Partner

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by Nomad Donald Trump, Tevfik Arif and Felix Sater in 2007 / Getty Postponed Times Two Soon after the Michael Cohen hearings, Ho...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Trump's 1987 Moscow Trip: The Recruitment of Agent Orange?

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by Nomad In 1987, real estate mogul Donald Trump was invited to Moscow by the Soviets- with the approval of the KGB. What this busi...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Lyudmila Alexeyeva's Final Speech

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by Nomad A few days before her death on 8 December, 91-year-old human rights campaigner Lyudmila Alexeyeva sent her along a message t...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Masha Gessen: The Decline of Democratic Values in Russia is a Warning to the World

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by Nomad Never heard of Masha Gessen? This Russian-American journalist has an important message for liberal democracies around the...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Operation InfeKtion: The Seven Commandments of Fake News - Part 2

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by Nomad Operation InfeKtion: The Seven Commandments of Fake News is part two of a three-part NYT op-ed series takes a closer look...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Operation InfeKtion: Meet the KGB Spies who Invented Fake News - Part 1

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by Nomad "If you don't know who to trust anymore, this might be the thing that's making you feel that way. If you feel...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

The Search For My Grandfather in the KGB's Ukrainian Files

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by  Bernie Neufeld, Guest Contributor O ne of our nomads, Linda, recently asked me if I would be interested in posting an article writ...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Weekly Recap (Sept. 10-16) and a Musical Sanity Break

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by Nomad F or most of this week, the nation's eyes were turned to the Carolinas as monster hurricane named Florence threatened E...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Sanity Sunday - Weekly Review (August 6-12) and Nomadic Playlist 5

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by Nomad Paleobiologist,  J. William Schopf, once pointed out that "for four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by p...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

FBI Indictment Of Russian Officers Reveals Extent of Putin's Attack on US Election System

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by Nomad Amid the hubbub of Trump's catastrophic NATO meeting and humiliating summit with Vladimir Putin, the indictment of 12 Ru...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Putin's Grand Offensive Against the West and What We Must Do About It - Part 2

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by Nomad In part one of this two-part series, we looked at Putin's strategy and the origins of his ire with the West. Writing...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

Sanity Sunday- Weekly Review and Nomadic Playlist 2

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by Nomad The Week in Review- Calamitous Even by Trump's usual standards, this was a calamitous week of mind-numbing bombshells...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Putin's Grand Offensive Against the West and What We Must Do About It - Part 1

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by Nomad In a piece for Foreign Affairs ,  Michael Anthony McFaul , the US ambassador to Russia between 2012 and 2014, offers us s...