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Morson would like to draw a sharp dividing line between the refined sensibilities of Golden Age czarist Russia and the horrors of the Soviet Union.
Another day, another cosmic horror courtesy of the so-called "Russian world." A statue of Iosef Stalin was consecrated on Aug. 15, 2023.
Opinion | Alexander Gabyshev, a self-styled shaman from Russia’s Far East, has been held in compulsory psychiatric treatment since 2019, after he set out on a cross-country trek to Moscow with the goal of peacefully expelling President Vladimir Putin from power and “restoring democracy” to Russia by performing a shamanic ritual on Red Square.
“By its very nature Eurasia is historically destined to comprise a single state entity.” – Nikolai Trubetzkoy, 1925 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has become a…
The Russian writer Pyotr Chaadayev wrote of his country: “We have never advanced along with other people; we are not related to any of the great human families; we belong neither to the West nor to the East, and we possess the traditions of neither. Placed, as it were, outside of the times, we have not been affected by the universal education of mankind.” That was in 1829. The “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” as former British prime minister Winston Churchill described Russia more than a century later, is no closer to being solved today. The philosopher John