Как я неоднократно упомянал, русофобия на Западе – в принципе элитный проект. Трудящиеся, как правило, Россию особо не любят, но и нет смысла обычному разнорабочему ее ненавидеть (с исключением особо упоротых бумеров, которые застряли в Холодной Войне). Чего нельзя сказать о людей с университетским образованием, которые слышали чего-то про Украину на CNN и считают, что […]
Перепечатываю часть дискуссии на russians.sexy, где я немного потроллил либеральных националистов: Пуритане – прекрасные чуваки. Но сильно оклеветанные, в том числе в самой США, не говоря уже о СССР-России. Вот несколько интересных фактов, в основном из книги Дэвид Хакетт Фишер, “Семя Альбиона“. (1) Очень интеллектуальные – уровень грамотности даже среди самых ранних поселенцев в Америку в
Трамп борется за Тропическую Гиперборею… извините, за Питтсбург, а не за Париж. Но фактически, все равно за Тропическую Гиперборею – то есть, за прекрасную Россию будущего. Прекрасную, и очень теплую, не вынужденной бороться с вечной мерзлотой, и способной прокормить миллиарды людей. Тем временем, кремлины выступают за Парижские Соглашения: В преддверии официального заявления президента США пресс-секретарь Кремля Дмитрий
Оригинал здесь – http://www.samovar-news.com/2017/02/23/tramp-ne-budet-druzhit-s-rossiej/ Почему не нужно бояться Трампа, но и восторгаться им тоже не стóит рассказал публицист, эксперт по российско-американским отношениям Анатолий Карлин. – В России победу Трампа встретили с каким-то небывалым энтузиазмом. Хотя казалось бы, что нам Трамп, что мы — Трампу? С чем это связано, может, в нем видят такого «американского Путина»? Есть
We do not have anywhere near complete information about what happened at the Lavrov Kerry meeting on Sunday. That in itself is a good sign. It almost certainly means that with the Crimean issue out of the way (and with the western powers having tacitly admitted that the Crimea is now part of Russia) real negotiations
Reprinted from Facebook (2018/02/14): While Gorbachev supports Crimea’s return, Navalny is helping the EU to compile sanctions on those who made it possible (http://www.alde.eu/uploads/media/Crimea_list_FBK_ALDE.pdf). All ideology aside, I really do think that this marks the end of him as a serious politician. (Note that I say this as someone who unlike most pro-Putinists predicted he’d get a
I have managed to find 3 polls querying people on their attitudes towards radical life extension. By far the most comprehensive one is PEW’s August 2013 Living to 120 and Beyond project. The other two are a poll of CARP members, a Canadian pro-elderly advocacy group, and by Russia’s Levada Center. While PEW and Levada polled a representative sample
In response to Putin’s (in)famous NYT op-ed, McCain told CNN he’d love to reciprocate on Pravda. He was probably surprised when they agreed to it – but he may not have gotten quite what he expected, according to Pravda.ru’s chief Vadim Gorshenin. “McCain Looked for a Kremlin Mouthpiece, and was not Mistaken” The Chairman of
In this op-ed piece posted on Lenta, Anton Klyuchkin analyzes the effects of recent Kremlin decisions, admonishing their results for pushing the country away from the West. Looking past the rhetoric, however, a better picture of the retaliatory nature of Russian-American relations comes into view, one in which both sides seem determined to antagonize the
In his Odnako blog Evgeny Super asks why Putin’s image seems to be improving of late. Turned off by the propaganda against the Russian President, he argues, Westerners are beginning to give him grudging respect. The Russian President’s Demonic Image Collapses in the Western Media Literally from the very first day of President Vladimir Putin’s
So apparently an Ambassadorship costs $1.8 million per post in the US. In virtually any other country, even where the situation with corruption is quite dismal, such arrangements would be seen as unquestionably corrupt. And yet the US scores an entirely respectable 73/100 in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), leagues above say Italy which gets
My latest for Experts Panel/Voice of Russia: The Panel states, “On future occasions, Russia might well require Washington to cooperate in similar circumstances; and if such is the case, its handling of the Snowden affair could prove decisive as to how Washington chooses to respond.” Well, let’s imagine this scenario. One fine day, an FSB
Mark Adomanis thinks Russia should extradite – or at least expel – Edward Snowden because… get this, it’s current stance (i.e. leaving him in at Sheremetyevo Airport, an international territory) constitutes “trolling” of the US. This is, to be quite frank, a rather strange argument. Would the US extradite a Russian Snowden? To even ask the
Russian blogger Anton Nossik speculates on why Ryan Fogle’s attempts to recruit Russian intelligence officers seemed to be so amateurish. Why was the American Spy such a Dunce? In Soviet times, there was the following anecdote: An American spends 15 years at spying school getting ready to infiltrate the deep Soviet rear. He studies the
Is discussed at the other blog. To add a couple of things that are Russia specific: (1) We now learn that the FBI had interviewed the older brother at the bequest of an unspecific foreign government – almost certainly Russia. Tamerlan had visited it for 6 months in 2011. I wonder if he established links with some of