Category: Russian literature
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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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Russian Foreign Policy Pugilist, Putin Advocate Medvedev Continues Attempts To Humiliate Ukrainian President Zelensky, late December 2024
Former Russian President and current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, continued his harangue directed at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his December 20, 2024 Telegram post. Medvedev is a Russian nationalist and backer of Putin’s foreign policy, the cornerstone of which, as evidenced by the ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine, is…
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Conversion of Turkish Peoples Historically to Russian Orthodoxy Serves To Placate Tensions Between Russians and Turks
Russian internet site https://russtrat.ru, which serves as a propaganda organ for the Putin regime, published an article on its ‘analytics’ page addressing the commonly-held misconception that all Turks are Muslims. The Gagauz ethnic Turkic people are cited as a case in point of those who converted to [Russian] Orthodoxy. Also examined are other Turkic peoples…
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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…
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The Nechayev Affair: The Murder of the Student Ivanov in November 1869
This post is supplemental to my post, Dostoevsky and the [Russian Orthodox] Church, in order to add context and a partial raison d’etre for Dostoevsky’s writing the novel Demons. It is a translation of an article published by A.I. Rakitin in 2014 at ©”Загадочные преступления прошлого” (Mysterious Crimes of the Past). The translation by LOC…
The Dragon is Slain 