Month: March 2022

As the Latin saying goes, De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Fair enough, and for most deceased a modest effort would probably suffice to act in the spirit of this sentiment and find something decent to say. However, in the case of the recently departed Madeleine Albright, one is genuinely hard put to find even a … Read more

Some of my best students and friends asked me what my message to President Putin would be if I had a chance to get a few words into his hands. Here is what springs to mind… Dear President Putin, I know that not even in a chronon of time you would ever read this at … Read more

Orthodox believers will remain unfazed by this, and one may also assume that many followers of the disintegrating Roman Catholic church will be equally unimpressed, but nevertheless a recent Vatican announcement about “consecrating” Russia and Ukraine on March 25 (while some derision is allowed) should not be taken lightly. To be precise, it may and should be … Read more

Russia seems to informally understand Serbia’s predicament of coming under unprecedented US-led Western pressure but would still have preferred for its top Balkan partner to have abstained from that resolution against its special military operation in Ukraine instead of voted in its support. Serbian President Vucic explained his country’s surprising support of the recent anti-Russian resolution at the United … Read more

In addition to the placement of offensive weapons as close as possible to the Russian heartland, the other major purpose of the Western occupation of the Ukraine is to close the ring of biological laboratories which surround the territory of the Russian Federation. Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva has dealt extensively with this issue, as … Read more