Category: Russia

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Will Youtube be blocked in Russia? A personal reflection

    With english subtitles. There are rumors that Youtube will soon be blocked in Russia, which doesn’t seem unlikely. Last year in the month of Mars Facebook and Instagram as well as Twitter was blocked. But Youtube has created some kind of problem for legislators in the State governed by the Putin regime. There are 90…

  • “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…

  • 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…