Portrait of the Postmodern Rasputin. Alexander Dugin confesses that the arrival of a “man of destiny” was a mystic vision granted to him long before Putin appeared. Whether Dugin emerged as a spokesman for Putin’s aspirations or was his original seducer, we may never know. …

Part 1: Blood sacrifices on the altar of Greatness Russian thinker Alexander Dugin’s cold corpse would be the most potent sacrifice aimed at halting the progress of Russia’s “Greatness” after February 24, 2022. His idea of Greatness had grown into a cancerous tumor in the minds of a few dozen…

He knows that he could be killed. He could even be poisoned with the infamous “Chekist novichok” poison or perhaps with special “holy water” from the Kremlin. While fearsome government cannibals in suits continue to advance in Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church looks more like a wayward somnambulist muttering about…

It is easy to feel smart and insightful when you are judging the past, every historic event prepackaged and labelled for your convenience. Cleansed of unnecessary human nuances, the bad and good unemotionally defined in historical annals. But here we go. Just as we were starting to rebound from a…

“Three big rooms, two dead women and three dead girls. Their skirts are pulled up, empty wine bottles sticking out from between their legs. On each of the beds, and there are three, lie dead women with their legs spread and bottles inserted.” The writer and once-liaison officer Leonid Rabichev…

Faces, smeared with blood and smoke, mourning their dead children amidst the desolation of their shattered homes, haunt me. The Russian-Ukrainian war. On the day of the Great Judgment, they will be silent in the face of those who bombed their homeland in search of non-existent “militant fascism”. …

I cannot be silent. Not just because I understand the Russian mentality so very well, or because my Ukrainian friends are trapped in small cities under siege, trying to survive bomb and artillery strikes. The final straw was an amateur photo of a dead innocent, a tiny Ukrainian girl wrapped…

Rarely — perhaps never! — are we left alone to enjoy silence and serenity in our world. Today’s globally accepted truth is: you need to speed up, accelerate, accumulate and produce more — otherwise you will find yourself on the margins of History. If you want to keep up with…

By Anna Kultin The groundswell of anger triggered by Putin’s war against Ukraine is reaching a fever pitch. A simple axiom — there is no excuse for war and Putin is a manifestation of evil — is universally accepted. I urge you to understand a few things that may provide…