Archiv des Autors: Michael Wehle

In fact, the coming demise of the Soviet Union would vindicate not only ‘primordialist’ theories of nationalism, like Gumilev’s, which saw nationalism as immanent, natural and essential, a fundamental, unchanging and practically genetic identity; the constructivists – those who believed … Weiterlesen →

Wimbledon.com: …it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of Russian or Belarusian players with The Championships. It is therefore our intention, with deep regret, to decline entries from Russian and Belarusian players … Weiterlesen →

Gilbert Doctorow: An overthrow of Putin would lead to chaos, and very likely to genuine radicals assuming power.  Their aggressive inclinations for policy to the West would be underpinned by the vast majority of the Russian population, which, in Shakhnazarov’s … Weiterlesen →

Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch: In short, the West has seized a few yachts from Putin’s cronies, stopped serving Big Macs in Red Square, and slapped sanctions on everything except the one thing that really matters. With Russia supplying 40% of its gas and collecting an estimated $850 … Weiterlesen →

Delfi.lt: Anyone defying the ban will face fines. The parliament on Tuesday passed the respective amendments to the Law on Administrative Offences and the Law on Assemblies in a vote of 124 to one with two abstentions. The new legislation … Weiterlesen →

Akhmatova, like the spouses and relations of thousands of Leningraders sent to the camps, began the awful and tedious process of making the rounds of the various police offices and prisons, trying desperately to lobby the ‘organs’ – or the … Weiterlesen →

During the frightening years of the Yezhov terror, I spent seventeen months waiting in prison queues in Leningrad. One day, somehow, someone ‚picked me out‘. On that occasion there was a woman standing behind me, her lips blue with cold, … Weiterlesen →

FAZ: Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaften in mehreren Bundesländern haben einem Bericht zufolge mehr als 140 Ermittlungsverfahren wegen der Befürwortung des russischen Angriffskriegs eingeleitet. In der Mehrheit der Fälle geht es um die Verwendung des „Z“-Symbols, mit dem die russische Armee in … Weiterlesen →