An in-depth scrutiny of the last two decades of the twentieth century is key to fathom contemporary Russian-Western relations. Twenty eventful years were the 1980s…
Posts published in “Opinion”
In the first article, “On Losing One’s Self,” I have established that the loss of the self occurs when the person no longer entertains a…
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss…
The current war in Ukraine undoubtedly constitutes a paradigm shift in the realm of international relations. It is not a reversion to any named status…
As the war in Ukraine enters its eighth day, the rationale behind Putin’s sudden swing from a diplomatic approach engaging France and Germany to a…
The Ukraine crisis has certainly got the world on a fear frenzy, as though it summoned the phantom of the ‘thirteen days’ of October 1962…
What none of those coming up with headlines at news outlets managed to perceive with regard to the French President’s Ukraine mission (i.e. visit to…
“Why must the righteous suffer?” Has hitherto been one of the most profound and enigmatic philosophical, theological, moral, and ethical inquiries of all time. From…
Taking the floor from the rostrum at the eighteenth annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin,…