Category: Soviet Union
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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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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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Putin Portrays SMO as a Spiritual Endeavor in Victory Day Speech, Early May 2024
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2024, once again used the occasion of the country’s Victory Day celebration as a bully pulpit to denounce the “Western elite” (i.e., the countries of the U.S.-led NATO alliance) for encouraging the former Soviet bloc countries to seek independence, in the wake of which monuments, memorials, and…
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Armenia and Azerbaijan: Baerbock Calls for New Negotiations
German news agency, ZDF, using as its sources the German news agency, dpa, and the French news agency, AFP, published an article on its internet site on November 3, 2023, concerning the invitation by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (of the Alliance 90/Green Party) to Armenia and Azerbaijan to renewed negotiations under her mediation to…
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Ukrainian, Russian Newspapers Differ in Accounts of November Ramstein Contact Group Session on Aid to Ukraine; Bulgarian Newspaper Reports Türkiye’s Disregard for Russia Sanctions, November 2023
In her November 22, 2023, article for the weekly Ukrainian Russian-language socio-political journal and daily news internet resource, Fokus, Darya Denisova stressed U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s provocative challenge to the West to continue its “unwavering” financial aid to Ukraine to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchist schemes never come to fruition. At…
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Putin Uses Victory Day Speech To Laud “Participants” in the Ukraine SMO, 9 May 2023
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2023, spoke at the military parade in Moscow on Red Square to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany on that day in 1945. Using the May 9 celebration as a springboard, Putin in his 10-minute speech brought to the fore the “Special…
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The “Greatest Generation” and its Legacy: A Perspective
Just the other day, January 20, 2023, to be exact, I turned 75, i.e., the day that marked ¾ of a century of existence on Planet Earth. If you’ve done your math, you’ve figured out that I was born approximately four weeks into the new year of 1948, just 2 ½ years after the end…
The Dragon is Slain 