Assange @RT: Russia Provides A Platform To Western Dissidents

This about Media, tagged , , , was written by for on April 18, 2012 .21 Comments

As I noted before, the symmetry is amusing to say the least. Anti-regime characters such as Nemtsov and Navalny, who are marginal in Russia (both in popularity and media presence – as is logical, nothing undemocratic about that), are treated as Genuine Voices of the Russian People by the Western media. In its turn, Russia […]

Quiz: Did This Happen In Russia Or A Democratic Country?

This about Politics, tagged , , , , was written by for on March 9, 2012 .1 Comment

Did you know that elections in Britain and the US are marred by mass fraud? At least that would be the inescapable  conclusion if they were to be subjected to the most popular methods to “prove” that Russian elections are rigged in favor of Putin and United Russia. Below I have a translated a delightful […]

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Karlin Freedom Index 2012

This about Politics, tagged , , , was written by for on January 24, 2012 .26 Comments

This is the Karlin Freedom Index for 2012, a political classification system I formulated more than a year ago in response to systemic bias on the part of traditional “freedom indices” such as Freedom House and The Economist Democracy Index (hint: they give massive bonus points for neoliberalism and pro-Western foreign policy orientations). The explanation: […]

Luzhkov Flees To Albion On Heels Of Russian Corruption Investigation

This about Politics, tagged , , , , was written by for on February 3, 2011 .11 Comments

Refused residency in Austria and Latvia, we know learn that the disgraced former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov has been granted an entrance visa to the UK. According to an ITAR-TASS source, it was granted on the basis of “reunifying the family.” His daughters have already been transferred to a London university. His wife Baturina has also […]

Wikileaks As A Mirror On The West

This about Politics, tagged , , , , was written by for on December 2, 2010 .26 Comments

A foreign “subversive” journalist, driven by fevered idealism, publishes reams of leaked internal documents from an Authority that, beneath its carefully positioned mask of civility, honor and justice, views the whole world – of both friend or foe – as its own playground, and engages in the most corrupt and underhanded wheelings and dealing to […]

Exiled Russian Dissident Yury Luzhkov Condemns Putin’s Corrupt, Stalinist Regime

This about Politics, tagged , , , was written by for on October 25, 2010 .19 Comments

This is a headline in a Western newspaper you might be reading in the not-too-distant future. Back in October 8th, ten days after Luzhkov’s dismissal from the Moscow mayoralty by Medvedev, I predicted that “within the next 3 months Luzhkov is going to get hit with corruption charges and will either go on trial or […]

The End of Western Freedom (and why Russians should ignore their hypocritical lectures)

This about Politics, tagged , , was written by for on September 15, 2010 .28 Comments

In a recent post at Streetwise Professor, in reply to a Russophobe commentator, democracy activist* and net-buddy Mark Sleboda compiled a damning indictment of the real state of Western freedom. Newsflash: for the world’s (self-appointed) moral arbitrators, it’s nothing to write home about! It’s well worth reading, which is why I’m reprinting it here with his […]

Interview with Peter Lavelle (Russia Today)

This about Politics, tagged , , , , , , was written by for on August 9, 2010 .15 Comments

The next installment of our Watching the Russia Watchers series at S/O features an interview with Peter Lavelle, the main political analyst at the Russia Today TV network, host of its CrossTalk debate show and Untimely Thoughts blogger. (He also has a Wikipedia page!) Peter is opposed to Western media hegemony, considering it neither fair […]

A Rant on Orientalism & Western “Experts”

This about Society, tagged , , , was written by for on July 24, 2010 .12 Comments

I’ve recently had a debate with… let’s call him Marcus Stein, about whether you have to be proficient in a relevant language to hold really deep and insightful views about a region, culture or civilization, or whether, to put it in Averkoese, “translation, acquired knowledge (of the subject matters), good contacts (to interact with) and […]

Rosstat and Levada are Russophobia’s Bane

This , about Politics, tagged , , , was written by for on July 1, 2010 .27 Comments

Still no economic collapse. Still no anti-Putin bunt. Still no demographic apocalypse. As the years pass by, Russophobe canard after Russophobe trope is relegated to the dust-heap of history, only to rise back out of its grave, zombie-like, whenever Boris Nemtsov pens a brilliant indictment hysterical screed on the failures of Putinism or when the militsiya […]

The Nazi-Soviet Pact as Second Munich

This about History, tagged , , , , , , , was written by for 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 […]

Top 50 Russophobe Myths

This , about Politics, tagged , , , , , was written by for on July 4, 2009 .40 Comments

This is a list of common Russophobe myths about Russia and its people, and the successor to a March 2008 post on a similar theme. Please be sure to check the supporting notes at the bottom before dismissing this as neo-Soviet propaganda. Also partially available en français & на русском thanks to Alexandre Latsa’s translation. 1 MYTH: Life has […]