Politics
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The Senate report on Russian meddling is a sign of unfettered self-righteousness and amateurishness
They think you are a cretin. They think you are a cretin who will believe anything they say and that they can get away with anything. There is not other plausible explanation if you want to understand the reasoning behind the new Senate Democratic minority report on the Russian “assault” on democracies worldwide. The 206-page… Continue reading
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Saakashvili threatens Poroshenko – and Western media fails to report it
Something strange is happening in Ukraine. Again, one might think. After having entered Ukraine forcing his way through the border in September, having toured the country calling for protests since, now Saakashvili is marching for the impeachment of President Poroshenko. We knew this much. The conflict, however, seemed to have escalated to a whole new… Continue reading
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Who is Mikheil Saakashvili and what does he want in Ukraine?
He has been called a “real fighter against corruption” and a “political adventurer”. Many certainly remember him as the President of Georgia Continue reading
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Кто такой Михаил Саакашвили, откуда он взялся и что ищет в Украине?
Его называют «политическим авантюристом» и «подлинным борцом с коррупцией». Но как Саакашвили возник Continue reading
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The top 10 mainstream media fake news of 2017
What is fake news? Everybody has become familiar with the phrase since last year US election. In the aftermath of one of the most unlikely defeats in the history Continue reading
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Book review: “Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win The White House”
Luke Harding’s latest book “Collusion: how Russia helped Trump win the White House” purports to be the definitive account of Russiagate Continue reading
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“There is no way out of the crisis for Europe” Interview with Peter Hitchens
East & West: Mr Hitchens, you have called the European Union “a continuation of German by other means”. How did it come to this? Peter Hitchens: It was always its purpose. The ‘preventing peace’ claim it ceaselessly makes is an admission of this. Germany, by nature of its size, position and wealth, is bound… Continue reading
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The dangers of power: a plea for direct democracy
In the last few years a host of organisations such as 38 degrees, change.org and Aavaz have sprung up with the intention of stimulating grass roots activism Continue reading
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Modern liberals have nothing to do with leftists
That the old concepts of left and right do not make sense anymore, has been said a thousand times. Still, especially among commentators from the United States, the category “the Left” Continue reading
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Nationalism, freedom and populism
Русская версия здесь A few days ago, I proposed a little experiment to two young women, one from Poland and the other one from Belarus Continue reading
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Serbia and the EU – a long journey to nowhere
The Serbian leadership wants to get Serbia in EU and they want it badly. This has been the main goal of every single goverment for the past 17 years Continue reading
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The West has entered its own Brezhnev era
All across the world there has been an increasing rejection of the neoliberal order. In the UK we had Brexit, while the rise of Le Pen in France or Geert Wilders in Holland, not to mention Donald Trump Continue reading
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The battle of the trolls (and no, they are not Russian)
I have lost count of how many times I have found articles in the media (it can easily be more than a hundred) saying that the internet is supposedly infested by hordes of Russian professional trolls Continue reading
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Was the Montenegro coup “fake news”?
Last October, on Election Day, Montenegro’s authorities claimed to have thwarted a coup and a terrorist act against Montenegrin independence Continue reading
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10 books to understand the world today
Everyone likes to be informed and up-to-date. In the age of the incessant news feed, people feel cut off from the world if they don’t consume news Continue reading
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Why little Englanders can’t stop Re-Moaning
In 2016 we were introduced to the pejorative epithet “Little Englander”, a term which embodied the inward and exceptionally backward thinking Continue reading
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Why the Ukrainian crisis was a turning point
I have often been asked: why do you care so much about Ukraine? Continue reading
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DONALD TRUMP IS NOT THE NEW REAGAN – HE IS THE NEW CLINTON
Donald Trump has been constantly attacked for being a “populist”, for appealing to the losers of globalization and for painting an apocalyptic picture of contemporary America Continue reading
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Miquel Puertas from Donetsk: “I believe in the European values but the EU has become a prison of nations”
“The further a society drifts away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell Interview with Gonzo Blogger Miquel Puertas Continue reading
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Obama has literally gotten away with murder
Farewells are always a bit ceremonial and hypocritical but, really, I don’t get all this last minute outpouring of good feelings for the leaving President of the United States Continue reading
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The liberal world – tales from utopia
It feels so good to be a liberal. I don’t doubt that most people, if they had a choice, would prefer to live in a liberal world. A liberal is, by definition, on the right side of history and has universal justice on his side. To tell it all, until recently I thought I was… Continue reading
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Letter to Harvard Prof. Serhii Plokhy
Dear Prof. Plokhy, I am reading your latest book on the history of Ukraine. It is not the first book I read on the subject and it will probably not be the last one. I hold the institution of Harvard, where you happen to teach, in very high esteem Continue reading
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The Russians are coming
The Russian bear for hundreds of years has been viewed as presenting an existential threat to the West. This threat has periodically been marked for history’s sake in some small little convenient heading such as the “Great Game” or the “Cold War” Continue reading
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Взгляд из Донецка – Факты и мифы патриотической войны
Каким я вижу будущее Донбасса? Вопрос, который способен поставить в тупик любого, даже самого профессионального и искушенного политолога. Мне проще ответить, каким я не вижу будущее Донбасса Continue reading
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The future of the Donbass
From our correspondent in Donetsk At the moment of truth in Ukraine’s “Revolution of Dignity” in February 2014, when President Yanukovich hastily left Ukraine Continue reading
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