Jacob Wohl and the moronic attempt to #MeToo Robert Mueller
‘Looks like she doesnt even exist! IT’S A FAKE NEWS CON JOB!’
Russia
Tuesday
Monday
When justice is a PR stunt
Why are the FBI bothering to indict Elena Khusyaynova?
Tuesday
From Russia Today with love
I wish we were sophisticated enough to be a covert brainwashing exercise
Thursday
Putin is at it again – this time with the midterms
If both Republicans and Democrats are being targeted, that’s because Putin doesn’t care who wins
Thursday
The plight of the returnee
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen reviewed.
Thursday
The magnificent Atkinsons: rigours of travel in 19th-century Russia
Mosquitoes and lice plague them all summer, bitter cold and storms all winter, and they face the constant risk of violence and sudden death.
Tuesday
Donald Trump’s fight is against globalisation and the left – not Vladimir Putin
History somehow isn’t moving toward its predetermined end, and this has driven Western liberals completely mad. The theatrical overreaction to Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki is just the latest proof. Before the Trump-Putin summit, pundits warned that Trump might recognise Crimea as Russian territory. He did nothing of the sort. … Read more
Thursday
America is in the middle of a Russian influence campaign – not at the end
We need only look to London for lessons in how oligarchs apply pressure.
Friday
The diplomat expulsion game is a pointless charade
Diplomats are poker chips. The pomp and mystery that accrues to the diplomatic and intelligence services en poste overseas conceal a simple truth: in today’s world, journalists, bankers, NGOs and bloggers are, far more often than not, better informed than diplomats about the countries in which they operate. I know this to be true in … Read more
Thursday
Mueller subpoenas Trump Organisation’s Russia documents
When Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, went to Moscow in 2006, she did all the usual tourist things: walked around Red Square, visited the Kremlin… sat in Vladimir Putin’s private chair. At least she did according to Trump’s broker and business partner Felix Sater. ‘I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putins private chair at his … Read more
Monday
What is behind the British PM’s threat to Russia?
British Prime Minister Theresa May has given Russia until Wednesday to explain why a nerve agent that it has developed was used in an attack in Salisbury, Wiltshire. She told the House of Commons that it was ‘highly likely’ that Russia was responsible for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter. She said that … Read more
