by Gordon M. Hahn [This article is the first in a trilogy examining how the West’s biases and wishful thinking have led to unrealistic and unmet expectations of imminent regime collapse in Russia.] Western and Western-tied rusology is plagued by a kind of apocalypticism, constantly predicting the end of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule and […]
by Gordon M. Hahn [Thus article was originally published for ROPV in December 2011 as “The National Republics as Administrative Resource in Russia’s Elections,” Russia – Other Points of View, 12 December 2011, http://www.russiaotherpointsofview.com/2011/12/the-national-republics-as-administrative-resource-in-russias-elections-.html. It discusses key, institutionalized aspect of what I characterized 14 years ago as Putin’s soft “stealth authoritarianism.”] My previous article for ROPV […]
by Gordon M. Hahn Much is being made about the ostensibly omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Russian propaganda machine. In the Western view, it decides Western elections and threatens the ‘global liberal order’. In fact, an anti-Putin media organ has published a comparison of the resources devoted to propaganda or ‘strategic communications (stratcomm) by Russian and […]
Гордон М. Хан В конце 1990-ых и в начале 2000-ых и оптимисты, ожидавшие быстрой консолидации демократии и торжества рыночной экономики в России, и пессимисты, непрерывно констатирующие, что Россия “потеряна”, никак не могут понять нынешнюю Россию. Неисполнимость ожиданий привела к горьким разочарованиям, чрезмерным реакциям и требованиям, прозвучавшим на Западе, проявить бдительность к вроде бы набирающему силу […]
by Gordon M. Hahn As I noted two years ago just after Russia’s military intervention into the Syrian civil war, Russian President Vladimir Putin had several motives in intervening: (1) to preserve both the principle of state and UN sovereignty over Western interventionism and Russia’s role in the Middle East and globally by ensuring Russia’s […]
by Gordon M. Hahn The Western media and DC think tanks continue to get Ukraine wrong. In some cases, the bloopers are intentional, designed to mislead the reader. In other cases, biases are at work or the misnomer is more innocent, resulting from a poorly thought out assessment of the recent events surrounding that country. […]
автор: Гордон Хан (Gordon Hahn) Не принадлежа к числу фанатичных сторонников российского президента Владимира Путина, как и любого другого из действующих политиков, я – фанатичный сторонник точности и честности в репортажах. В этой связи, я никак не могу принадлежать к преданным читателям рупора Демократической партии США, «The Washington Post» или российских официальных средств массовой информации […]
