Tag archives for Russia
Is an armistice in Ukraine still possible?
If you’ve been following the news from Ukraine, the situation sucks big time: Zelenskiy bypasses General Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, by contacting his subordinates directly,…
PUTIN MUST DIE!
Путин должен умереть! Idea for Russia: Despite being "the father of the Korean economic miracle", General Park Chung-hee brutally suppressed protests, arrested and tortured activists, imposed censorship. In Oct. 1979,…
The Blog Posts I Failed to Write Because of Putin
As a chronic procrastinator, I started writing drafts for several blog posts, only to get muddled and never finish any. Just as I was into an XXL-sized “Explaining Putin”... the…
Soviet Winter Nostalgia
For someone who lived in a "formerly communist" Eastern European country, hence a victim of the forced "Bolshevization" of a third of Europe, it might seem bizarre (or a sort…
No, the label Champagne hasn’t been confiscated by Russia!
From now on, I guess I'd prefer the Russian propaganda and check their claims rather than assuming that the Western disinformation is anything but a too hot Cold War. Vladimir…