It’s only through these means – encouraging their audience to use proxies to access Western-censored Russian media, offering generous and comprehensive packages for incentivizing qualified professionals to migrate to Russia, and working closely with those who are already deeply rooted here and considered to be reliable – that publicly financed Russian international media can survive…
Putin means what he says: Russia’s back is to the wall, and there is nowhere to which Russia can now retreat – for them it is existential. The collective West was already angry. And it is apoplectic after President Putin shocked western leaders by ordering a special military operation in Ukraine, which is being widely…
When Russia’s Vladimir Putin demanded that the U.S. rule out Ukraine as a future member of the NATO alliance, the U.S. archly replied: NATO has an open-door policy. Any nation, including Ukraine, may apply for membership and be admitted. We’re not changing that. In the Bucharest declaration of 2008, NATO had put Ukraine and Georgia,…
If Kiev was really so confident in its military capabilities, not only would it not be calling up reservists and militarizing civilians, but it wouldn’t be urgently requesting foreign mercenary assistance nor ridiculously comparing President Putin to Hitler. Its forces also wouldn’t deploy heavy weapons in residential areas in order to essentially exploit the civilians…
In the forefront, the United States, which still refuses to respect international law and especially the United Nations Charter, has given dilatory answers to the Russian proposal for a treaty guaranteeing peace and is escalating tensions in Ukraine. They have raised the tension by accusing Russia of preparing for war. Behind the scenes, Washington is…
War is cruelty on a level most of us can’t process. But even more cruel are those who orchestrate it and then run away and hide the moment the knife is drawn from the sheath. The baptism of fire from western analysts and newsrooms is that the “invasion” of Ukraine is unjust and that “Putin…
