Category: Russia
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“The very least..”
In the thirty-ninth chapter of the book of Jeremiah, we can read about “the very least” or “the poor, those who had nothing”, and who remained in the land, after the great powers Egypt – Jer. chapter 37 – and Babel, had brought their armies back and forth – fighting, exploiting and ravaging. Jer. 39:10…
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From Marching to Crashing
Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Wagner boss – has apparently died in a plane crash above Tver in Russia. I have been thinking about that man all this year, and especially after the campaign in June. It was then that he organized his soldiers in a “march of justice”. This march was prepared over several weeks…
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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
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“A sea of ideas” – but no ideology!
Are the former Soviet states somehow betrayed? In connection with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine renounced its nuclear weapons. Russia and all former Soviet republics – including Ukraine – renounced their marxist ideology, to embrace the freedom offered by the West. But the West has possibly failed to…