Center for Eurasian Strategic Intelligence, a fraudulent "hawkish" think tank
Readers of this blog may have heard of the Center for Eurasian Strategic Intelligence (CESI) that seems to promote a "hawkish" view on Russia's foreign policy. In his Twitter, Edward Lucas has recently...
View ArticleA Putin in the heart of Europe?
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s declaration in summer 2014 that his government was going “to build an illiberal nation state” was far from a revelation. Rather, it was a statement of a...
View ArticleA comment on the involvement of the Patriot of Ukraine in the Ukrainian...
Adrian Karatnycky, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has written a good article, titled "Warlords and armed groups threaten Ukraine’s rebuilding", in which he discusses important issues related to...
View ArticleЛикбез по определениям и классификации
Учитывая терминологический беспорядок в русскоязычном и украиноязычном медиа-пространстве, я решил составить краткий ликбез, в котором объясняются различные понятия ("крайне правые", "фашисты"и т.д.),...
View ArticleGreek left-wing SYRIZA forms a coalition with the pro-Kremlin far right
After a landslide victory in the early parliamentary elections held on 25 January 2015, the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) that secured 149 seats in the new parliament has surprised the...
View ArticleAleksandr Dugin and the SYRIZA connection
Following the previous article on the far left/right coalition government in Greece, I was asked to provide more comments on the connections between SYRIZA and Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin.First of...
View ArticleOn the statement of the University of Piraeus regarding Kotzias and Dugin
Following the publications in this blog and elsewhere about the contacts between current Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Russian fascist Aleksandr Dugin, Professor Angel Kotios, speaking on...
View ArticleWhither the Ukrainian Far Right?
IntroductionThe early presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine that took place in May and October 2014 correspondingly proved to be disastrous for the Ukrainian party-political far...
View ArticleGerman Die Linke delegation visits right-wing terrorists in Eastern Ukraine
Just two weeks after the leader of the pro-Russian right-wing terrorist organisation "Donetsk People's Republic" (DNR) Aleksandr Zakharchenkodeclared that Ukraine was run by "miserable Jews", a...
View ArticleThe far right "International Russian Conservative Forum" to take place in Russia
The Russian fascist Rodina (Motherland) party that was founded by Russia's current Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin is organising a large conference titled "International Russian Conservative...
View ArticleThe Uneasy Reality of Antifascism in Ukraine
The Uneasy Reality of Antifascism in UkraineFirst published in German language in Beton International: Zeitung für Literatur und Gesellschaft (10 March 2015). The German version can be found...
View ArticleThe three pins of a murderous grenade by the Rada
In the course of the violent protests that took place by the Verkhovna Rada (the building of the Ukrainian parliament) on August 31, three National Guards were killed, and several dozens more...
View ArticleRussian politicians building an international extreme right alliance
(This article originally appeared in Norwegian in Verdens Gang.)Russia seems to be getting serious about building an international alliance of extreme right parties that would aim at undermining the...
View ArticleA new book: Alina Polyakova - The Dark Side of European Integration
A new book published in the "Explorations of the Far Right" book series which I edit for ibidem-Verlag:Alina Polyakova, The Dark Side of European Integration: Social Foundations and Cultural...
View ArticleRussian fascist militants give money to Swedish counterparts
One of the previous posts addressed the issue of two Russian far right organisations, namely the Rodina party and the Russian Imperial Movement (Russkoe Imperskoe Dvizhenie, RID), engaged in building...
View ArticleThe Crimean blockade (in English and Russian)
My article on the Crimean blockade in English and Russian:"The Crimean blockade: how Ukraine is losing Crimea for the third time" (openDemocracy)"Догнать и перекрыть" (Грани.Ру)
View ArticleThe far right "March of Heroes" in Kyiv, Ukraine (photo report)
A number of Ukrainian far right organisations, in particular, the All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom" (Svoboda) and Right Sector, took part in the "March of Heroes" held in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on 14...
View ArticleA new book: Jean-Yves Camus, Nicolas Lebourg: Les Droites extrêmes en Europe
Jean-Yves Camus, Nicolas Lebourg, Les Droites extrêmes en Europe (Paris: Seuil, 2015), 320 pages.La fin du XXe siècle a vu, à la droite de l’échiquier politique, l’émergence de partis extrêmes ou...
View ArticleMoscow opts for conspiracy theories to explain the Flight 9268 crash
The crash of the Metrojet Flight 9268 operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia has presented Moscow with a dilemma: what explanation of the crash would be most useful for the Kremlin's positioning both...
View ArticleDmytro Yarosh’s Resignation from the Right Sector
The recent resignation of Dmytro Yarosh from the leadership of the Right Sector may be a sign of the forthcoming changes in the strategies of both the Right Sector and the Ukrainian state.In order to...
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