Category: Debate

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • “Attention capitalism”?

    This was an interesting essay. Just a quote from the beginning of a quite long article behind a payment wall: “I try to hold people’s attention for a living. For more than 13 years, I’ve been hosting a cable news show, and when I’m not doing that, I spend a lot of time alternating between…