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No memories of an August month?
The Russian Communist Party organized a special event in connection with the anniversary of the August coup against Gorbachev in 1991. The newspaper “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” drew attention to this event and asked some questions. The headline of the article is “THE COMMUNISTS HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN AUGUST 1991“, but could be “It is not easy to…
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The cult of Stalin in today’s Russia is too superficial
From Nezavisimaya Gazeta: …The focus on rehabilitating the “red emperor” in principle unites the authorities and the opposition.Departments of the Russian Communist Party have organized competitions to see who will be the fastest to erect monuments to Stalin. For example: if in the Transbaikal region only an announcement has been made, then in Chuvashia a…
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The President of Serbia in a Russian Perspective…
Political Scientist Bondarenko: “Vučić Can Make a Choice in Favor of the West, and Not of Russia” Serbian President Alexander Vučić will sooner or later have to choose between Russia and the West. This is what political scientist and Balkan expert Oleg Bondarenko said in an interview for a Russian publication “Vučić is trying to…
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Money on the Devil (Diablo *)
(Below: a slightly longer version of a review that I first wrote on the website of a swedish book company) “Play Nice” – an interesting review of the fates and adventures of a game company. This book is about the particular culture in which game creation arose, and especially when the company “Blizzard” was formed…
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Straightforward?
Friday’s White House meeting with Trump, JD Vance, Zelensky and others took place the day after a significant date – February 27. It was the tenth anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow. Nemtsov was in his time the most straightforward and outspoken critic of Putin and the Putin regime. But he fell…