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Turkic Peoples Should Back Putin as the Mongol Khan of Today, Kazakh Activist Says

August 12, 2014

Staunton, August 12 – Usually when Russians or others talk about the Russian state as the successor to the Mongol Golden Horde, they do so from the perspective of those who believe Moscow hasn’t yet but should escape from that “yoke” and become a modern state. But there are exceptions, people who believe that Moscow […]

Neither War Nor Peace? – Putin’s Trotskyite Strategy in Ukraine

August 11, 2014

Staunton, August 10 – Now that the defeat of the Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine is within sight and Western sanctions are beginning to bite, many commentators are arguing that Vladimir Putin must choose between sending in the Russian army as part of a full-scale invasion or suing for peace and an end of Western […]