After peaking in 2007 at the height of its oil boom, the Russian economy slid off the rails, with GDP collapsing by 25% from peak to trough. Attempts to stem the decline by arresting pessimistic economists failed. Its image as a tiger economy, heavily promoted by Kremlin ideologues, was revealed to be a sham. Though […]
The Russophobes Were Right… (About The Wrong Country)
This Post about Demographics,
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for Da Russophile on September 17, 2011 .87 Comments
The Nazi-Soviet Pact as Second Munich
This Translation about History,
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for Da Russophile on August 24, 2009 .64 Comments
On the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of non-aggression between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, signed on August 23, 1939 (also my birthday!), historians, ideologues and everyone in between inevitably fall into a game of recriminations, revisionism and relativism. The anti-Soviet side maintains that the Pact gave Germany a free hand in the […]
Ukraine, Georgia and Latvia, Beacons of Freedom
This Post about Politics,
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for Da Russophile on October 9, 2008 .8 Comments
I am being a sarcastic, of course. Ukraine has banned broadcasting of Russian TV channels. Georgia cut access to the .ru domain and banned Russian TV channels (and Euronews!), no doubt to silence any questioning voices over their criminal aggression as opposed to the likes of Fox, CNN or the BBC, which swallowed the psychopathic […]
