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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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Book review: “The Age of Anger” by Pankaj Mishra
I will tell you straight away: for those like me who feel that the nineteenth century is unsurpassed Continue reading
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Brzezinski and the history textbook
I have a little quirk: wherever I travel, I try to get a copy of a local history textbook. So the other day, I opened my copy of a Polish history 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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Who is not afraid of Donald Trump? President Madman and the political use of fear
The America First policies that were espoused by Trump throughout his presidential campaign seem to have been cast into the streams of history Continue reading
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Russia and Turkey: Restless Partners? Interview with Russian expert Ivan Starodubtsev
Ivan Starodubtsev is a well-known Russian political scientist, businessman and expert on Turkey, and has lived and worked in this country for a long time. His name, as a specialist in Turkey, is often found on the pages of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, and he is a regular guest on the program “From Two to… Continue reading
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Россия и Турция – беспокойные соседи? Интервью с Иваном Стародубцевым
Иван Стародубцев – известный политолог, бизнесмен и главный эксперт по Турции в России, долгое время живший и работавший в этой стране. Его имя, как специалиста по Турции, часто встречается на страницах газет «Московский комсомолец», звучит в эфирах передачи «От двух до пяти» на радиостанции «Вести ФМ» и на центральных телеканалах. Continue reading
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The lesson of Ukraine did not teach people anything at all
A few months back I wrote down my impressions from my latest trip to Belarus. The piece was titled “In Belarus a Maidan is only waiting to happen” Continue reading
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Do we live in a mediacracy?
Power as generally understood is divided in the legislative, executive and judiciary branches. And then there is the press, which has been labeled the Fourth Estate Continue reading
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Nietzsche and the rise of Germany
Nietzsche was born in 1844, the son of a Lutheran pastor, in a provincial town in Thuringia. In 1866 Prussia united the whole of Northern Germany and in 1871 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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