Tag: Medvedev

Eurasianism Rapidly Evolving into Russian Fascism, Kantor Says

July 21, 2014

Staunton, July 20 -Eurasianism, which has acquired enormous influence in the Kremlin, is playing “a destructive role” in relation to Russian society and its real culture and on the political level is rapidly evolving toward “Russian fascism,” just as Berdyaev, Likhachev, and Solovyev warned, according to Moscow commentator Maksim Kantor. In a wide-ranging 5,200-word essay […]

An Expert’s Guide to Russia’s Security Apparatus

September 5, 2013

Russia has long been a country identified with secretive and elite security and police agencies; from the Oprichina of Ivan the Terrible, the Okhrana of the Tsar’s, the Cheka and KGB of the Bolsheviks and Soviet Union, to the FSB of today. Due to the multitude of differing agencies, often times with varying levels of […]