Tag: Greek

Moscow’s Efforts To ‘De-Turkify’ Crimea Outrageous And Absurd

February 4, 2015
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, February 3 – Calls by Russian politicians to rename Crimea “Tavrida” or “Tavriya” are part of an effort by Moscow to “de-Turkify” the peninsula and thereby separate the Crimean Tatars from the land “on which they arose and evolved,” according to Bekir Mamutov, editor in chief of “Kyyrym.” Mamutov, who is also a member […]

Aleksandr Dugin and Greece’s SYRIZA Connection

January 28, 2015
Explorations of the Global Far Right
Spotlight
Ukraine

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 all, a few words about Dugin himself (interested readers will find my longer piece on Dugin here, and a thesis on him by my colleague Andreas […]