Monthly Archives: August 2025

Volodymyr Ishchenko, Jacobin: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has been criticized for recent moves to centralize power. But these developments are less about the actions of a single leader and more the result of decades of state weakness following the dissolution … Continue reading →

Lots of happy people out enjoying a beautiful summer evening, as I experienced in Moscow. I was here in 2018 and had planned to return in 2020, but there was Covid and then the Special Operation. Feels good to be … Continue reading →

Lenin looks as if he’s been shoved into a corner behind the information booth, next to the metro ticket dispensers.

Quite a bit larger, less verbose than the memorial in Мінск, very organic and so less polished than the one at his crash site. Tsoi obviously retains a strong connection in people’s memory and imagination. Something that’s so interesting is … Continue reading →

Alexander Dugin: Alexander Dugin argues that modern Western civilization is guided by the hostile intellects of fallen angels, manifesting as ultraliberal ideology and moral decay, a reality fully comprehensible only through the Christian worldview.