Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
Mary Dejevsky keeps telling her “Western” readers that they don’t understand Putin but never asks whether the man actually thrives on misunderstanding and confusion – other people’s confusion, of course. Writing in The Financial Times (a surprise to me), she…
At the Eurovision 2016 contest held last Sunday, the largest group of the Ukrainian callers who took part in the voting chose the Russian number. Azerbaijan and Poland came second and third in that Ukrainian poll. Russian callers awarded the most…
In their cynicism about Putin, western diplomats are making the Ukrainian crisis worse, according to Mary Dejevsky. Can one be “too cynical” in assessing Vladimir Putin? When I started this blog twelve yeas ago, I avoided too much cynicism and ended…