Finnish Intelligence Officer Explains the Russian Mindset (Long and scholarly)
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ricochet.com ^
| April 4, 2022 | Martti J. Kari. and Jon Gabriel
https://archive.ph/ErO1v https://archive.ph/ErO1v https://archive.ph/ErO1v https://archive.ph/ErO1v Former Finnish intelligence colonel Martti J. Kari. Russia has always befuddled Western analysts, a fact best summed up by Winston Churchill who said the multicontinental colossus is “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” More
recently, “experts” wondered why Putin was pushing forces to Ukraine’s border, then why he launched such a massive attack, and now why on earth he’s reducing cities to rubble and pushing civilians into mass graves. Studying Russian history and culture over the past few years has given me inklings into the “Russian mind” but I’ve only scratched the surface....
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Polish Scholar Sees Six Possible Russian Futures
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Window on Eurasia ^
| Oct 2021 | P. Goble
Kazimierz Woycicki, a specialist on Eastern Europe at the University of Warsaw, says that there are six possible scenarios for Russia’s future. From
Moscow’s perspective, four are disastrous; and two are more hopeful although apparently in the Polish scholar’s view less likely. The four negative scenarios, he suggests, include “the territorial disintegration of the Russian Federation,” “the gradual but peaceful falling apart of Russia,” “the Balkanization of Russia,” and “the fall of Russia under the influence of China” (k-politika.ru/mrachnye-prognozy-v-polsh The two more positive ones at least from the perspective of the Russian leadership at the present time, Woycicki argues, are...
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Polish Scholar Sees Six Possible Russian Futures
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Window on Eurasia ^
| Oct 2021 | Paul Goble
Kazimierz Woycicki, a specialist on Eastern Europe at the University of Warsaw, says that there are six possible scenarios for Russia’s future. From
Moscow’s perspective, four are disastrous; and two are more hopeful although apparently in the Polish scholar’s view less likely. The four negative scenarios, he suggests, include “the territorial disintegration of the Russian Federation,” “the gradual but peaceful falling apart of Russia,” “the Balkanization of Russia,” and “the fall of Russia under the influence of China” (k-politika.ru/mrachnye-prognozy-v-polsh The two more positive ones at least from the perspective of the Russian leadership at the present time, Woycicki argues, are...
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US Scholar Who Consulted Reagan On Russia Asks Putin For Russian Citizenship
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UDUR Point ^
| 16 May 2021 | Sumaira Hussain
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th May, 2021) Former US President Ronald Reagan's adviser on Russia, Suzanne Massie, has traveled to Moscow to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin for a Russian passport. The
90-year-old is considered one of the most significant figures in the late Cold War period of US-Soviet relations. "I devoted many years of my life to bringing the peoples of the United States and Russia closer to one another. It is utterly important and necessary for me today to stay in Russia in order to continue my cause. If President Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] finds it possible...
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Russian-born scholar: False allegations of affair with Flynn used as pretext for FBI probe
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Just the News ^
| July 5, 2020 - 6:28pm | Alex Nitzberg
Svetlana Lokhova's life flipped upside down when she became ensnared in what she describes as a completely false narrative that she had recruited Michael Flynn to work with the Russian government. Lokhova,
an immigrant from Russia to Britain who worked as an academic at the world-renowned Cambridge University, found herself facing allegations that she had been involved in an affair with Flynn. A new mother at the time, Lokhova described herself as "absolutely gobsmacked" by the allegations. She explained during an interview on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast that she met Flynn once in 2014 when he visited Cambridge while...
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Leading Russian scholar admits: Ukrainian Church has right to Independence
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Unian ^
| 11 September 2018
Russian religious expert Sergei Chapnin explains why the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has every reason to grant the status of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church In an op-ed published by Vedomosti, Chapnin noted that the issue of Ukrainian autocephaly dates back to the early 20th century, while those associated with the
status of the Kyiv church goes back to the late 17th century. "But if the Patriarch of Constantinople preserves the continuity of his institutions for almost 1500 years, the Moscow Patriarchate, after the total destruction of all church institutions in 1917 and the re-emergence of some of them...
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Richard Pipes, Scholar Of Russian History, Dies At 94
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Radio Free Europe ^
| 5/18/2018
Richard Pipes, a renowned U.S. historian of Russia and an aide to former President Ronald Reagan, has died at the age of 94. Pipes
died early on May 17 at a nursing home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, his son Daniel said. Born in Poland in 1923, Pipes and his family fled the Nazi occupation of the country and moved to the United States in 1940. Pipes taught history at Harvard University, where he spent his entire academic career until retirement in 1996. He wrote numerous histories of Russia and the Soviet Union, becoming a world authority on the subject. In 1976,...
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Scholar Unravels ‘The Big Lie’ Surrounding The Tump Campaign And Russian Collusion [VIDEO]
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Review of Victor Davis Hanson Video on The Daily Caller ^
| 05/13/2017 | Review of Victor Davis Hanson Video via Ginni Thomas, The Daily Caller
<p>Scholar Victor Davis Hanson says there’s a “big lie” surrounding the “boogeyman of Russian collusion” that Democrats and the media rally around, according to an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.</p>
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