THE RUSSIA DESK

CALEB MAUPIN—In the case of civic activism and political struggle, Navalny has always been in favor of a setup in which authorities, including, judges, can be dispensed with quickly, and then shot. While talk about the danger of social media ...
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CALEB MAUPIN—Artemi Panarin is praised by US mainstream media for embracing the string of disruptive protests in Russia. Panarin echoes the US State Department script, presenting the current unsanctioned protests as a fight for freedom against a tyrannical regime. Because ...
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In a telephone interview on Thursday (11 February) the Ambassador of Russia to the EU Vladimir Chizhov evokes the recent visit of EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell to Moscow, which he helped arrange. Vladimir Chizhov is a career diplomat. Before being ...
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N. BALDWIN—The Putin government does seem to be aware that there is dissatisfaction among Russians about the economic stagnation they have been enduring or several years. Ben Aris, a journalist who has been covering Russia fairly since the 1990’s, recently ...
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MoA—Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is still not approved for use within the EU but that will soon happen. It could be produced relatively fast if Russia would give licenses to EU companies. Van der Leyen sent Borrell to Moscow to ask ...
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A weekend edition of our INDISPENSABLE videos encompassing key stories for activists and political educators, featuring The Russiagate hoax implosion, and perhaps one of the most promising developments in the mass communications field: as Big Tech, joined at the hip ...
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MoA—It is amusing to what extent the editors of the New York Times resort to lying in their attempts to portray the incarceration of the right wing racist Alexei Navalny as the best thing that happened since the invention of ...
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MOON OF ALABAMA—he President of Russia Vladimir Putin has given a great speech to the Davos 2021 online forum organized by the World Economic Forum. As usual it created little echo in the 'western' media. Putin sees a new danger ...
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PEPE ESCOBAR—Xi and Putin’s speeches were de facto complementary – emphasizing sustainable, win-win economic development for all actors, especially across the Global South, coupled with the necessity of a new socio-political contract in international relations. This drive should be based ...
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F W. ENGDAHL—The US government’s NGO for Color Revolution regime change, the NED, in a piece published on January 25 echoes Nuland’s call for a social media-led destabilization of Putin. Writing about the Moscow arrest of Navalny just three days ...
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MAX PARRY—Sutton’s accusation that the German state sponsored the Bolsheviks first came from the Alexander Kerensky-led Provisional Government which took power following the abdication of Nicholas II in the February Revolution. The short-lived interim government based its claims on telegraphic ...
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The way of life of the Russian ethnic group was originally communal in nature with its own peculiar culture. The social organisation of Russian society is based on the institution of a community with traditional moral values and the priority ...
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