Tag: Russian world

Putin Much Less Dangerous Personally Than is His ‘Russian World’ Idea, Piontkovsky Says

May 24, 2014

Staunton, May 18 – Vladimir Putin’s conception of a “Russian world,” of “the idea of the uniqueness of the Russian man,” is “much more dangerous for the world than is Putin himself,” according to Andrey Piontkovsky. And the West must fight “this nightmare” by discrediting its author and showing that it “doesn’t work” Speaking to […]

Refusing to ‘Die for Narva’ Would Be End of NATO and the West, Piontkovsky Says

April 29, 2014

Staunton, April 29 – The Kremlin thought it had a winning propaganda theme offered up by some in the United States by “the sacramental question: ‘Do you want to die for Narva?’” Andrey Pionkovsky says, because in fact no one in the West “will ever go to war with Russia in the defense of Estonia” […]

Putin’s Program of ‘Empire and Dictatorship Rather than Nation State and Democracy’ Will End in Catastrophe, Analyst Says

April 22, 2014

Staunton, April 22 – Vladimir Putin’s “Russian world” project of “empire instead of a nation state and dictatorship instead of democracy” is far more popular his country than calls for the development of a civic nation, Mariya Snegova says, but it will end, as all other such projects in Russian history have, with “a catastrophe” […]