I am writing it a few days before the 75th anniversary of defeating Nazi Germany. If Stalin didn’t fight against the Nazism, what did the Russians pay 50 or more million lives for in WW2? And why does Putin feed the European far-right?
Didn’t the USSR fight against the Nazism? Read More »
Estonia condemns new Ukrainian laws introducing criminal liability for extremism, mass riots and the like. Independent Russian observers emphasise that the laws have been practically copied from a similar package adopted in Russia during last year. “Estonia condemns the laws adopted in haste in Ukraine, which are aimed at restricting fundamental rights and freedoms of
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I am posting a large fragment from The Last Gasp of Empire: Russia’s Attempts to Control the Media in the Former Soviet Republics, an overview published by the American journalist David Satter on 8 January 2014. This is a greatly valuable research done on the Kremlin’s so-called soft power, which in a matter of fact is
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I’ve been advised to read an essay by a Russian journalist published on NYTimes.com. This is supposed to reflect the situation in Latvia as much as the Russian journalist writes about his own country. I am now reposting this text here, with some insignificant omissions, replacing “Russia” with “Latvia”, “Moscow” with “Riga”, etc. Will it
Is a Latvian one on one with the beast. Miserable and intimidated? Read More »
This is Juris Kaža’s reply to my comment on his recent post “20 years of freedom and they put you on the sh*t list”. Alehins, I am afraid that you have misread my blogs. I do not recall ever writing anything against Russians, if that is what you mean by speakers of other languages. As
When I look at myself in search for a Soviet, which I strongly believe I’m not, I realise what’s remained in us since those times. This is my hidden knowledge that the only one I can rely and count on is myself, because everyone else is my current or potential but quite natural enemy. This
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