Russian analyst: Two simple reflexes explain Putin’s decisions
As the gap between what Vladimir Putin says and does and what Russians see around them widens, ever…
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Many Ukrainians remain “Soviet people” decades after collapse of the USSR. How to eliminate “Bolshevism of the mind”?
In the evening of 25 October 1917, a blank shot from the forecastle gun of the Cruiser “Aurora” signaled the start of…
Ukrainians’ strong horizontal ties a serious weakness when it comes to their attitudes about Russians, Shchetkina says
One of the greatest advantages Ukrainians have relative to Russians is the strength of horizontal ties in Ukrainian…
By itself, Ukraine’s prosperity won’t return the occupied territories, Shvets says
One of the most frequently heard arguments offered both by Western countries and some Ukrainians is that the…
“Alex” Martynenko: Psychology for the fighter
Oleksandr “Alex” Martynenko has been serving in the army for the past two years. The Kyiv activist took…
White Russian officer and Vlasovite source of Putin’s ‘hybrid war’ strategy, former KGB psychoanalyst says
Yevgeny Messner (1891-1974), last chief of staff of the Kornilov Division of Baron Wrangel’s White Russian Army and…
Russians today increasingly like a dehumanized mass of orphans, Moscow psychologists say
Two speakers at a Moscow conference of Russian psychologists and psychoanalysts say that Russians today, especially the residents…
Kremlin – a ‘psychopathic power with dangerous illusions,’ Vike-Freiberga says
Many foreign leaders have offered diagnoses of Vladimir Putin and his regime – Germany’s Angela Merkel has suggested…
The trauma of war
In her late teens, my sister had a pen pal in the United States, a sort of “long…
Geopolitical conquests will not save Russia’s national pride, Moscow scholars say
Staunton, May 15 – The pride that people feel in their country consists of two elements: a cognitively…
The country of triumphant resentment: Yampolskiy on Russia’s loss of reality
Resentment One of the most striking developments in Russian society has been the explosive growth of aggression simultaneously…