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Why Russian leaders kill Putin doesn't need a reason to attack Ukraine BY Costica Bradatan UnHerd, March 14, 2022 Costică Brădățan is a Professor of Humanities at Texas Tech University. His most recent book is In Praise of Failure. Why did Smerdyakov kill cats? Just because. The lackey is one of the most washed-out faces in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. He is inconspicuous, elusive, slip..

opinion If Regime Change Came to Moscow The past offers some lessons for the future. By William Courtney The Moscow Times,nMarch 18, 2022 Sergei Kiselev / Moskva News Agency Strains in Russia over the war in Ukraine and punishing economic sanctions could spark regime change in Moscow. Although prospects for this are uncertain, the West might be prudent to begin considering how to deal with any n..

Stalin’s famine: a brief history of the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine The Holodomor, or “murder by starvation”, was a state-engineered famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932–33 which killed an estimated 3.9 million people. Devised by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, the Holodomor crushed the spirit of the Ukrainian peasantry and ensured it would never again rebel against communist rule on the scale se..

Western Companies' Exodus from Russia Leaves Thousands of Russians' Livelihoods on the Line By James Beardsworth The Moscow Times, March 15, 2022 Alexander Avilov / Moskva News Agency When McDonald's first opened its doors in Moscow in 1990, over 30,000 Muscovites queued along Pushkin Square, hoping to get their first taste of the West. The arrival of the golden arches was seen as a symbol of gr..

The Cancellation of Russian Culture by Gary Saul Morson First Things 3 . 14 . 22 In the medieval era, when a thinker successfully claimed divine revelation, he placed his words beyond dispute. Only the hopelessly benighted or demonically inspired could doubt him. In recent decades, the claim of “science” achieves a similar result. Politicians maintain they “just follow the science” while support..

​​The Clock Is Running Out on Putin’s Invasion What does victory look like for the Russian dictator, and does he stand a chance of achieving it? by Shay Khatiri The Bulwark, March 15, 2022 MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Russian government via teleconference on March 10, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik / AFP / Getty) The Russian military has been struggl..

Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship The Stalinisation of Russia As it sinks in that he cannot win in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is resorting to repression at home The Economist March 12th 2022 WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN ordered the invasion of Ukraine, he dreamed of restoring the glory of the Russian empire. He has ended up restoring the terror of Josef Stalin. That is not only because he has unleashed the most..

Russian Forces Squeeze Kyiv, as ‘Unimaginable’ Tragedy Looms in Ukraine By Liz Cookman for AFP and Dave Clark for AFP The Moskow Times, Updated: March 12, 2022 As Russia widens its bombardment, talks between Moscow and Kyiv seemingly go nowhere UNIAN Russian forces inched toward Kyiv Saturday and pounded civilian areas in other Ukrainian cities as concerns grew over the besieged southern port of..

「大ロシア」の再興を求めて…「プーチンの戦争」には隠れた“本質”がある なぜ原発や原子力研究所に固執するのか 歳川 隆雄(ジャーナリスト, 「インサイドライン」編集長) 現代 Business, 2022.03.12 photo by gettyimages 現在も閉じ込められたまま… 2月24日午前5時（現地時間）頃、ロシア軍が全正面においてウクライナへの軍事侵略を開始するまで、同国には運転中の原子力発電所が4カ所、原子炉が15基あった（1986年に発生した史上最悪のチェルノブイリ原発放射能汚染事故で廃炉となった原子炉4基を除く）。 原子力が発電総量の60％弱という“原子力大国”のウクライナにはロブノ原発（4基）、フメルニツキ原発（2基）、南ウクライナ原発（3基）、ザポリージャ原発（6基）がある。そして原子炉はすべて露ロスアトム製の加圧水型軽水炉（PWR）。 隣国ベラルーシから侵攻し..

Russia, Ukraine in High-Level Talks After Hospital Attack Sparks Fury By Dave Clark and Dmitry Zaks for AFP The Moscow Times Updated: March 10, 2022 A local official said the strike on the recently refurbished maternity hospital, which included a pediatric unit, wounded at least 17 staff. Screenshot / Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s Telegram channel The foreign ministers of Russia and Uk..