Category: news

  • 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…

  • Acts of Protest !

    Russians in exile took part in protests against the Putin regime’s war in Ukraine on the anniversary of the invasion, February 24. Such was carried out in more than fifty cities around the world, according to Lyubov Sobol who speaks at the beginning of this clip (with English subtitles) / CNN

  • Who said: “We will take Kyiv in three days” !?

    The phrase “возьмем Киев за три дня” ( = We’ll take Kyiv in three days !) has become something of a catchphrase on the Russian web. Also internationally. Not really catching. Who said that in the first place? It is said to have come from the Russian military (one rumor says that Putin uttered it…