by Gordon M. Hahn Although the Maidan regime in Ukraine continues to deny, mostly ignore, its leading members’ role in organizing and executing the 20 February 2014 snipers massacre that targeted both police and demonstrators in order to escalate the demonstrations and that indeed led to the overthrown of President Viktor Yanukovych, some of the […]
by Gordon M. Hahn Introduction I have written extensively exposing the Western and liberal Russian bias and wishful thinking that has for years produced bad analysis claiming the imminent demise of the soft authoritarian regime in Russia under President Vladimir Putin. This does not mean that a transformation of the regime he has played the […]
by Gordon M. Hahn Three almost uninterrupted centuries of Russian self-comparison, self-assessment, self-identification with the West and ever deeper involvement in the intra-Western geopolitical and imperial competition have come to an end. Harsh lessons Russians have drawn from its three centuries of intimate interaction with the West — its Occidental Era — were reinforced by […]
by Gordon M. Hahn UPDATE: On 11 December 2018, the 100th birthday of the Soviet Union’s and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s perhaps most important opponent, Alesksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended and keynoted the opening of a monument in Moscow to Solzhenitsyn. In his speech, Putin called Solzhenitsyn “a true patriot” and noted “the […]
by Gordon M. Hahn The alienation of post-Cold War Russia has proceeded in waves. Each successive Western overreach for not just maintaining but expanding its global hegemony has produced a new wav of Russian alienation. What will probably be the last wave, one that might help spark a wave of ultra-nationalism afterward has begun. This […]
by Gordon M. Hahn By way of a brief update of an old article, there follows immediately below the most recent list of the most dangerous countries for journalists to operate in for the year 2017, according to the independent internationalist journalists’ rights organization, Reporters Without Borders. UPDATES: The view that Russia is a cauldron […]
by Gordon M. Hahn The World Bank recently announced that Russia jumped from 35th to 31st place in its annual ‘Doing Business Report’ evaluating the ease of doing business in 190 countries based on parameters such as ease in starting a business, registering property, getting loans, paying taxes, and enforcing contracts (www.doingbusiness.org/~/media/wbg/doingbusiness/documents/profiles/country/rus.pdf). Russia’s rank in […]
