EAST AND WEST

If we want to avoid World War III, Europe needs to offer Russia a way out in Ukraine

25 Jan 2023

What are the scenarios for the war in Ukraine in 2023?

10 Jan 2023

General

Caricature and realpolitik of Russia’s war in Ukraine

2 Jan 2023

Europe Geopolitics United States

The true Western motto is: “We are the masters and have the say”

6 Dec 2022

General

NATO propaganda works – Nachdenkseiten

29 Nov 2022

Economics History

Life in Communist times: was it so much poorer than now?

I did not grow up in a Communist country: to me life behind the Iron Curtain was the stuff of fairy tales happening in some mysterious and dark places

History Ukraine

Russia is not Russia

Recently I found a story reported by Miquel Puertas, the brave Spanish independent blogger who has been living in Donetsk for more than three years now

Geopolitics Russia Ukraine

The Russian perspective on the Ukrainian crisis. Did the West force Putin to play his hand?

Kremlinologists never miss an opportunity to feel complacent about their unparalleled expertise and their unvaluable wisdom

Belarus Geopolitics

No, a Maidan in Belarus is not coming anytime soon – and that’s a good thing

In the world portrayed by the infallible Western globoliberal media, history has really ended, like in that old discredited book by Francis Fukuyama: all countries

Geopolitics Ukraine

No, the future of Europe is not decided in Ukraine

For more than 3 years I have suffered from a bad case of déformation professionnelle. Having kept a close eye on Ukraine at least since the first Maidan in 2004 and visited the country regularly for the past ten years, I was under the impression that the future of the European Union

Languages

The strangest country names in foreign languages

As much as I try, I can never correctly recall the Chinese name for China when I am trying to impress people: it sounds something like Jong-Guò and

Can the US Make Poland Great Again?

It may come as a horrifying shock to many enlightened and progressive citizens of the Old Europe and in the US, but Donald Trump, already “the worst President in US history”

Politics

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

Books Culture

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

Geopolitics History

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

Culture Politics

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”

Geopolitics United States

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

Books Turkey

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 […]

Books Russia Turkey

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.