Tag: tragger
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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Accuses U.S. of Withholding Intelligence Yet Supplying Arms to Israel Prior to Hamas Attack, mid-October 2023
The Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, reported on its Turkish language internet site on October 14, 2023, the answers of Russian MFA spokesperson, Mariya Zakharova, to the questions of Turkish journalist, Esra Karahindiba. The Q&A, which centered around the unfolding Israel-Hamas conflict, its impact on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the effect of attempts to mediate peace negotiations…
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Russian Foreign Ministry Blames U.S. for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Russia’s Special Military Operation against Ukraine, mid-October 2023
During Russian news agency TASS’s joint workshop with the International Journalists Council in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, met with Turkish journalists, during which she answered the questions of Turkish journalist Esra Karahindiba. Karahindiba’s interview with Zakharova was reported in the online version of the Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, on October 14, 2023. The…
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Greece And Israel: Discovering Commonalities Through Facing A Common Adversary
The Russian-language newspaper, Каскад/Cascade, published in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 16, 2023, featured an article on its internet site entitled, Greece – Where There Is Everything. Everything, according to the author, includes the Jewish presence in Greece, and specifically, in Thessaloniki/Salonica. Within its eclectic content that ranges from the dilatorious effects of the pandemic and…
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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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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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“We Have Faith, They Have Religion”
Thus Russtrat director, Elena Panina, begins her May 5, 2023 opinion piece in which she reasons that Russia will prevail in Ukraine because the former is united under the rubric of ‘faith,’ i.e., that ‘God is on our side’ because of the justness of the cause under the banner of which the SMO [Special Military…
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“Street People” – A Graphic Reporting Initiative Depicting the Plight of the Homeless in Russia, late April 2023
The Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta (New Gazette), on its 25 April 2023 internet site edition featured an article in which free-lance journalist, Irina Kravtsova, explained how she came to create the graphic reporting endeavor Street People. As an example of her work, Novaya Gazeta included a snippet from the Street People project. [Kravtsova’s article as…
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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 Arrest of WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia and Reaction to It. Chronology
Voice of America’s Russian language service correspondent Masha Morton has filed a detailed report documenting the chronology of the arrest of The Wall Street Journal reporter in Russia, Evan Gershkovich. Morton’s April 3 account will probably be the most factually-based version of the incident that Russian-only speakers will receive, given the anti-free speech climate in…
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Book Review: Russia in Search of Itself by James Billington
An American scholar with a deep interest in Russian culture, particularly as it relates to the country’s Christian heritage as expressed through Russian Orthodoxy, James Billington was perhaps the foremost chronicler of Russia and its history for over 40 years. Billington first appeared on my radar in the mid-1970s while I was studying Russian Language…
The Dragon is Slain 