Going Native: Russian Studies in the West
Did Western scholars tasked with researching the Soviet Union and Russia contribute to the West’s misunderstanding of this vast tyranny and its neoimperial aspirations?
Obstacles to Russian Decolonization
What hinders the decolonization of Russia? Why do keeping the colonies and even expanding farther the Russian empire seem like a good idea to Russia’s elite and public at large?
Neoimperial Russia: A Self-Hating Western Country
During the past half a millennium, Russia was firmly molded into a Western state. But beginning in the 19 th century, many Russian elites and governing circles began portraying their country as the moral and civilizational antithesis of the supposedly ‘corrupted West.’
Life is Cheap in Russia
Wars cost lives. Life is invaluable, because once taken, a person is gone forever. But in autocracies dictators like to cheapen human life.
Germany’s Robust Indecisiveness or Winking at Russia?
In its reluctance to help Ukraine decisively, Germany looks bad in its European and North American allies’ eyes. Berlin’s equivocations and numerous unfulfilled promises are of liking and strategic advantage only to the Kremlin. What in the past appeared to be caution dictated by Germany’s dark history, now...
Russian and Democracy
At present, not a single state with Russian as its official or co-official language is a democracy. It is obviously people, not languages, who decide on a given polity’s political system and actual governance.
