Medinsky is, like Alexander Dugin, convinced of the superiority of the ‘Russian race’, and in 2013, he claimed that Russians had ‘one more chromosome’ (than other ethnicities), not realising that usually, those with an extra chromosome have Down syndrome
Russia is now a war economy
The Navy ignores on its website the participation of the X Mas in the fighting of the Nazi-Fascists. This is unacceptable because History cannot be written in half
This is an important card in trade negotiations with the US
Today you are under the sway of two powers like Russia and this new US, who deeply detest your value base. They are united by what they consider to be a common enemy: you. You are surrounded, somehow
The Russian project for the United States also directly affects Europe, as NATO is, albeit informally, disbanding. Only a part of the Italians seems not to realise this
This sounds like a ‘merketing’ or sociological topic. In reality, as the Tik Tok case in Romania has shown, as well as things to know in order to devise a marketing strategy, it is now also about geopolitics
The American president admires the way Putin defeated his enemies at home and is ready to take deferential advice from him. Like Putin, Trump is above all a man of resentment and revenge. Nothing consolidates an alliance better than shared hatred. Putin masterfully plays on Trump’s paranoid conspiracy theories and his unhealthy thirst for revenge. He convinced him that support for Ukraine was Biden’s policy, so he absolutely had to distance himself from it if he didn’t want to turn to men who had served in the Democratic administration
The tragedy of Katyn – where 22,000 Poles (army officers, but also politicians, journalists, professors and industrialists) were slaughtered by the Russians – has practically disappeared from school textbooks in Russia. The confirmation of this policy came with the war against Ukraine. Putin is Stalin’s successor
Putin ‘forgets’ that Ukraine was a historical entity in its own right for more than 1,200 years, when Rus, the first Slavic state, was created in that vast territory stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, bordered by the Dnepr and Dnestr, with Kiev as capital – when St Petersburg and Moscow did not even exist
