The European Parliament is by definition, by etymology, a “talking shop.” However, the reality is that the talk on the house floor when the subject turns to Russia and international security is a monologue, not debate.
Continue reading “News flash: Europe is brain dead and on the drip”
During his visit to the European Parliament on 30 May, ZMIANA National Board Member Janusz Niedzwiecki cast light on the arrest last week of Europe’s first prisoner of conscience, Mateusz Piskorski, and other chilling developments in Poland’s new political repression.
Against the background of cockeyed values from our political establishment, I will weigh in with my own personal appreciation of Donald Trump and his character.
How nice it would be if similar rough and tumble debates on foreign policy were allowed to appear on prime time television in the USA.
Continue reading “Press Freedom in Russia? Tune in to the Political Talk Shows to See for Yourself”
The Kremlin invited 100 Moscow-based foreign reporters to make the trip to Palmyra for the concert on 5 May. Judging by the column inches which followed in Western mainstream media, the return on this investment was poor though not hopeless.
Continue reading “Postscript to the Mariinsky Theater’s Concert in Palmyra”
The notion that the Immortal Regiment is a Kremlin-promoted gimmick could not have been farther from what I witnessed yesterday. It is an initiative fully owned by its participants.
In this essay we will examine the remarkable performance of the Mariinsky Theater orchestra in Palmyra on 5 May from three perspectives: at face value, in terms of the objectives set out by its organizer, with mention of all key actors; its political dimension as seen from Moscow; and its political dimension as seen by Western mainstream media
Inevitably there are issues affecting the greater world where game playing and incompetence in one country must stop. A major international airport is one such case. Read on…
“Realism” has been injected into the ongoing presidential campaign as a guiding principle by candidate Donald Trump. He has no proprietary rights over it, and it would be a good thing if other candidates in the Congressional and not only presidential race gave it a test drive as well, because it is the only approach to international affairs that can save us from needless confrontation and risk of nuclear war
We may take as a given from yesterday’s non-event that one of two charges made against Bill Browder by Russian state television on 13 April is winning support in the West on the basis of independently made discoveries here: that the Magnitsky affair was fraudulent and misrepresented from the beginning….
Gilbert Doctorow 