So, the meeting between Donald Trump and turned out to be brief, meaningless, and strange. There will be no ceasefire on the Russian-Ukrainian front; the war will continue. Until a peace agreement is reached or indefinitely – it’s anyone’s guess. But even if Russia has enough soldiers and weapons to keep fighting, will it have enough resources to maintain economic stability for as long?

#Alaska #WarinUkraine #militaryindustrialcomplex #India #China #Taxation #oil #Putin #Russia #sanctions #USA #shadowfleet #Trump #finance

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The announcement of the August 15 meeting between Donald Trump and in Alaska shocked the entire world without exaggeration. Even seasoned observers needed several days to realize — this was not a guess, a prank, or a hoax. The range of assessments and forecasts for the upcoming summit was enormous: from hopes that the war would end very soon to skepticism about whether everything might fall apart at the last moment. Let’s try to understand the position both sides approached this rendezvous from and what might follow afterward.

#Alaska #WarinUkraine #diplomacy #historicalanalogies #Putin #Russia #USA #Trump

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The forested Sandarmokh tract seems to threaten the Russian authorities by its very existence. From their point of view, since people do not forget about it, their memory must be reformatted—by any means and at any cost.

#thecaseofYuriDmitriev #dictatorship #historicalmemory #Karelia #NKVD #Putin #repressions #Sandarmokh #theUSSR #Stalin #FSB

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The problem of Russia's return to peace is multi-layered. One layer is the reverse structural restructuring, partial or complete. The second is the preservation and lifting of sanctions and other restrictions. The third is the social consequences, related not only to the absorption by the labor market of more than half a million former fighters but also to disruptions in business groups tied to the war.

#Analytics #militaryindustrialcomplex #war #investments #world #Putin #Russia #sanctions #USA #Trump #Ukraine #Economy

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Today, many representatives of national-regional movements in political exile have a clear disappointment in the Russian federal project, since it has repeatedly (both after 1918 and after 1991) led only to yet another revival of a centralist empire. Therefore, they find no common ground even with the new liberal opposition, which in its dreams of a beautiful future Russia sometimes oddly repeats Kremlin unitarist ideas.

#future #decoloniality #Yeltsin #Empire #History #nation #society #aftertheUSSR #protests #Putin #republics #Russia #federalism #language

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In August 1975, in Helsinki, 35 countries from Europe and North America, from the USSR and the USA to Malta and Luxembourg, signed the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). This treaty became the pinnacle of the détente period (a policy of easing international tensions), when the West and the Soviet bloc tried to implement the principle of «peaceful coexistence» at least on one continent.

#Brezhnev #East #democracy #dictatorship #diplomacy #west #History #aftertheUSSR #humanrightsactivists #Putin #Russia #Sakharov #HelsinkiAccords

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Right-wing populism is not a universal ideology, and everything beyond anti-globalist and anti-immigrant sentiments is subject to tactical moves that have their local characteristics depending on the local agenda. Yet, it is possible to highlight the reasons for the successes of right-wing populists using the example of Marine Le Pen's party in France.

#Analytics #WarinUkraine #elections #democracy #europe #JeanMarieLePen #MarineLePin #society #rights #Putin #ultraright #France

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«There is no crime I wouldn’t commit to realize myself,» Valery Gergiev liked to repeat the words of his idol, Herbert von Karajan. But the renowned German conductor, who became the face of the Third Reich for self-realization, never stooped to shoddy work. That can no longer be said about Gergiev.

#zpatriotism #BolshoiTheatre #ValeryGergiev #WarinUkraine #HerbertvonKarajan #dictatorship #Canada #classicalmusic #Latvia #MariinskyTheatre #Netherlands #propaganda #protests #Putin #SergeyNovikov #SergeiProkofiev #Ukraine #JuliaNavalnaya

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Boris Akunin has been sentenced in absentia in Russia to 14 years, Dmitry Bykov declared wanted: two of the most important Russian writers have been subjected to exemplary criminal repressions. This is a milestone and another signal, as they say, for the entire intelligentsia. Although what signals are there, everything is already clear. Rather, this is a milestone for the repressive apparatus itself, which is worth noting.

#akulin #bulls #dictatorship #dissidents #intelligentsia #kgb #movie #literature #aftertheUSSR #Putin #repressions #series #Sovietpower

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Recruitment of foreign youth has always been part of the KGB’s work abroad. But never before have Soviet special services had such fantastic opportunities as those now available to the Russian ones—when the Russian-speaking diaspora numbers in the tens of millions.

#agentsofinfluence #AndreyBelyeninov #East #diplomacy #west #softpower #education #aftertheUSSR #legalfund #Putin #Russianspecialservices #Russia #RussianWorldFoundation #Emigration

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The sharp and simultaneous escalation of Russian-Azerbaijani and Russian-Armenian relations that occurred recently reveals much about the Kremlin’s entire foreign policy.

#Azerbaijan #Aliyev #Armenia #foreignpolicy #diplomacy #Yerevan #migrants #Moscow #odkb #aftertheUSSR #Putin #Russia #RecepErdogan #Turkey #Shos #EmmanuelMacron

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There will be much more written about Zelensky – both good and bad, admiring and hateful, grateful and contemptuous. For now, we have been given the opportunity to trace how this man, by fate and his own ambitions, found himself on the Golgotha of war.

#biography #VladimirZelensky #WarinUkraine #DNR #Donbass #bookclub #Putin #Russia #Ukraine

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