Известный российский историк и общественный деятель поговорил с УНИАН о секретах, используемых российской пропагандой, и о том, чем стоит гордиться Украине.
“The risk of confrontation with the use of nuclear weapons in Europe is higher than at any time since the 1980s.”
Igor Ivanov, former Russian foreign minister (1998–2004), Brussels, 18 March 2016
The most hard-core nuclear maniac among the Kremlin chiefs is the man behind the “Ryazan’ training exercise”,1 Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev.
http://www.diplomaatia.ee/en/article/nuclear-deterrence-in-the-crim-put-in-era-must-be-personal/
Андрей Пионтковский: Дорого чекистское яичко к судному дню международного трибунала.
Сталин правил 31 год. Брежнев 18 лет. Путин уже почти 17, если считать со дня его назначения премьером и преемником. В течение своей оказавшейся длинной жизни мне довелось наблюдать (в качестве рядового политизированного обывателя – подростка, взрослого и пожилого человека) смерть каждого из них. Личные впечатления дополнялись чтением мемуарной и исторической литературы. Очень разные люди и разные обстоятельства. Но все три смерти выстраиваются в некий единый смысловой Триптих долгого прощания с матерым коммунистическим веком (1917-2017). Трагедия коммунизма, его фарс и его постмодернистский абсурд.
Андрей Пионтковский об истинных страхах Путина, философии Бастрыкина и войнах силовиков.
От кого Путин хочет защититься Нацгвардией, как Кремль испытывает США и кто выигрывает — Кадыров или враждебные ему силовики. Публицист Андрей Андреевич Пионтковский поговорил с Каспаров.Ru о важных политических событиях последних двух недель.
Alexander J. Motyl
Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, United States
Abstract
There is a broad consensus among students of contemporary Russia that the political system constructed by Vladimir Putin is authoritarian and that he plays a dominant role in it. By building and expanding on these two features and by engaging in a deconstruction and reconstruction of the concept of fascism, this article suggests that the Putin system may plausibly be termed fascist. Not being a type of group, disposition, politics, or ideology, fascism may be salvaged from the conceptual confusion that surrounds it by being conceived of as a type of authoritarian political system. Fascism may be defined as a popular fully authoritarian political system with a personalistic dictator and a cult of the leader—a definition that makes sense conceptually as well as empirically, with respect to Putin's Russia and related fascist systems.
Available online 23 January 2016 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/ science/article/pii/S0967067X16000039)
Copyright © 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Raising the issue of the militarisation of the Black and Mediterranean seas by Russia, we should look first at the dynamics of the increasing presence of Russian troops in the Crimea.
If you look at the numbers, the naval ship group structure is increased by 19%, aviation – by 39%, land groups – by 42% and this will continue to increase.
First of all, I'd like to thank the organizers of the Conference for the invitation.
Speaking about crisis of the system of the international security, let me ask A few very simple "eternal" questions: 1) what is happening in the Eastern part of Europe? 2) who is guilty? 3) what should we do?
Starting with some general remarks.
The world seems to be in disorder. We see national borders and international rules challenged by force. We see turmoil in our neighborhoods.
To the east, Russia's actions in Ukraine are in breach of international law challenging the post-Cold War peace order. Russia’s actions have severely damaged trust. Russia’s actions pose a major challenge to Euro-Atlantic security.
Seventy to ninety years of the last century will go down in the history of mankind as a period of intensive attempts to finally achieve real progress in establishing peaceful cooperation between countries, limiting the arms race, introducing the basic monetary unit, attempts which achieved the creation of the post-war system of international security that began in 1945 with the signing of the UN Charter. In this context I would like to make two general observations.