To recap, by the end of 1991 and for the first time since 1721, Russia was neither an empire nor the de facto and uncontested…
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Yesterday, August 30th, 2022, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the first and last President of…
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…
On a nice spring day in the Garden of Eden, after breakfast, Adam took a nap—as it was his custom following every meal (obviously!). The…
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…