These will forever be known as the ‘Pandemic Games’, played out in the shadow of Covid one year later than planned. Better late than never, some might say; others would argue these were the Games that never should have happened at all. But go ahead they did, and in …
Read More »‘BANDITS!’ Russians fume at Olympic judges as hot favorite Dina Averina denied gymnastics gold by Israeli rival who DROPPED ribbon
Three-time reigning all-round world champion Averina, 22, had been odds-on favorite to win the gold after topping qualifying ahead of twin sister Arina Averina, but on a day of high drama at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre on Saturday both were left disappointed. Dina Averina finished with a total of 107.650 …
Read More »Washington Post’s branding of Russians & Chinese as ‘uncivilized’ betrays the latent xenophobia fueling America’s New Cold War
The piece, by George F. Will, argued that the efforts of “civilized nations to deter” Beijing and Moscow “are starting to add up.” The headline is striking, even by today’s low, post-Russiagate standards. It clearly implies that – to paraphrase Sergio Leone’s Western masterpiece ‘The Good, the Bad and the …
Read More »VIDEOS show defiant Russians SWIMMING in Moscow’s flooded streets as ‘super rain’ turns roads into canals
After a week of abnormal heat with temperatures of up to 36 degrees Celsius, the city of more than 15 million was showered on Monday by what the media described as “super rain.” Some parts of the Russian capital received roughly 70% of monthly precipitation in a matter of minutes, …
Read More »Soviet collapse taught Russians the danger of being a messianic superpower. Biden makes it clear America hasn’t learnt the lesson
The author Fyodor Dostoevsky had a grand vision for the country. Russia, he believed, would lead the West back to Christ and bring about “universal, spiritual reconciliation.” This it could do, he felt, because its people supposedly had a “capability for high synthesis, a gift for universal reconcilability.” The Russian, …
Read More »Ukrainian plan for new ‘race law,’ which refuses to recognize Russians as ‘indigenous people,’ has echoes of Hitler, Putin warns
The draft law, which aims to define the “indigenous peoples of Ukraine,” was introduced by the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in April. As well as elevating the status of ethnic Ukrainians, it recognizes the status of some minority communities, including Crimean Tatars, Karaite Jews, and Krymchaks. However, it excludes those …
Read More »Skynet? Russians? Twitter jesters have field day after #cyberattack trends amid massive downing of popular websites
The brief online hiatus, which affected websites of numerous news outlets, major services sites like Amazon and Spotify, and even some governments, was quickly attributed to Fastly, a US firm offering cloud computing services, which said a glitch in its systems was responsible. What exactly happened is not clear, but …
Read More »Navalny’s revolutionary zeal feeds global headlines but most Russians prefer stability & steady change using local civic activism
Navalny has risen to prominence internationally over the past six months, widely characterized overseas as a pro-Western liberal democrat who is being persecuted because he represents a popular and genuine threat to President Vladimir Putin’s government. However, polling from Levada, a pollster which has received Western funding and is considered …
Read More »A nation no longer divided? How Russians are increasingly remembering, rather than erasing, the country’s bloody Civil War history
It is said that modern Russia is a conservative country, but that begs the question – what are Russians trying to conserve? The basic principle of conservatism is that a society should develop in accordance with its own traditions. But in the past 105 years, Russia has twice experienced radical …
Read More »Overwhelming majority of Russians believe Crimea is legally part of country, including those who don’t support Putin, poll reveals
That’s according to a new poll from the Levada Center, which has revealed that the events of seven years ago enjoy support even from those who disapprove of President Vladimir Putin. The Levada Center is registered as a foreign agent by the country’s Ministry of Justice. Crimea was re-absorbed into …
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