Humming
One If you were in the real estate business in NYC, London or Toronto in the late 1980s, the 1990s or the noughties, there’s no way you could have avoided dealing with shady operators of Soviet or third-world extraction. I…
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
Fragments of a blog
Winterings in Trans-Scythia
Fragments of a blog
Tag John Schindler
Look at the mainstream
I have just learned of yet another Russian cable TV channel, courtesy of John Schindler: Then there’s Tsargrad TV, which is Russia’s version of Fox News, if Fox News were run by hardline Russian Orthodox believers. If “Fox News” stands…
Lobbying for state-controlled firms – or the controlling states?
John Schindler has denounced the Podesta Group, whose CEO Tony Podesta is an influential Hillary Clinton backer, for contracting to lobby on behalf of Sberbank “on the scope of U.S. sanctions against Russia for its role in the Ukraine conflict and whether…
The rotten empire vs. Stalin’s strategic genius
John Schindler has written a number of posts on the less known or commonly misunderstood campaigns of WWI, including Isonzo and Galicia. The Soviet take on Russia’s role in WWI, as taught at schools and colleges, was that the war…