Russian journalism is emerging from pro-Western wishful thinking to something resembling consciousness of the national interest. For these salutary changes in Russian informational space, one can only thank President Obama and his neocon-dominated administration. Read on…
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The Worm Turns: Russian Pundits on the Ukrainian Crisis and Western Sanctions
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An Open Letter to Guy Verhofstadt
Universal geniuses do not exist in nature, as Guy Verhofstadt’s ill-informed and wrongheaded remarks on the electoral victory of Vladimir Putin demonstrate amply. Read on…
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More on Russia in NATO: Mr Putin Tips His Hand?
In the midst of the brouhaha over the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, which provided a platform for Russian push-back over America’s democracy agenda, and following closely upon the release of U.S. diplomatic cables revealing NATO’s recent approval of an operational plan to repel a Russian invasion of the Baltics, which contradicts the official identification of Russia as a friendly power posing no threat to the Alliance, Vladimir Putin has chosen to drop the mask and call openly for Russian accession to NATO. Read on….