Category: Elections
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Putin Social Media Bulldog Dmitri Medvedev Compares Trump’s Agenda to Soviet Writer Bulgakov’s Satire of Bolshevism, early January 2025
Former Russian President and current deputy chairman of Russia’s National Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, dedicated his January 9, 2025, Telegram post to a revisionist analysis of Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov’s anti-Soviet novel, A Dog’s Heart (Собачье Сердце/Sobach’e Serdtse), as related to in-coming U.S. President Donald Trump’s stated goals. In Medvedev’s world, Trump’s agenda represents grandiose…
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Putin Ally Dmitri Medvedev Makes Ukraine-Centric Observations From Three Recent Events, Early December 2024
In his December 1, 2024 Telegram post, former President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev, who now serves as the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, addressed “three events at the very beginning of winter” that had caught his attention, which, from his perspective, related to the situation in Ukraine. Medvedev’s post begins below [translated from…
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Dmitri Medvedev, Former Russian President/Current Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Claims: Ukrainian Defeat Assured Despite Germany Sending Taurus Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine
Following is a November 12, 2024 post by Dmitri Medvedev, former President of Russia and currently Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, to Telegram. In this post, Medvedev is reacting to statements by the Chairman of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, vowing, if elected, to supply Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles.…
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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Questions A Trump Presidency’s Ability To Overcome “The System”
Dmitri Medvedev, former President of Russia and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, on November 6, 2024, posted a short, succinct message on Telegram, his communication conduit of choice, briefly commenting on expectations under a Trump presidency regarding the situation in Ukraine as well as relations with allies. The language in which he…
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The Political Dangers of a Rift in the Relations of Blacks and Jews
This article, originally appearing in the February 7, 2024 edition of the New York Times, was featured on the Greek-language internet site of the Greek newspaper, Kathimerini, on February 13 under the banner of the New York Times|International Edition. The New York Times has maintained a 25-year partnership with Kathimerini, offering to its Greek subscribers…
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Greece Wants a West-Leaning and Democratic Türkiye, mid-May 2023
AKP Leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the left; CHP Leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on the right The Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, known for its independent reporting and anti-Islamist stance, on 14 May 2023, as Presidential and Parliamentary elections voting was coming to a close, claimed that Türkiye’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had lost the election to…
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‘Dead Souls’ To Be Revived in Turkish Presidential Elections? Possibly, According to Turkish Political Analysts, mid-April 2023
The Greek newspaper, Kathemerini, in its internet edition for April 16, 2023, featured an article by Manolis Kostidis based on the opinion of Turkish political analysts that Turkiye’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), at the helm of which is Islamist conservative Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, may use the identities of the victims of the earthquake…
The Dragon is Slain 