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Political Analyst & Writer specializing in conflict zones, diplomacy, and multipolarity. B.A. International Studies/History (California), M.S. Politology, Higher School of Economics (Moscow). Fluent in English, French, and Russian.
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The Cheapest Weapon in Geopolitics Is an Angry Voter (opens the original)
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Beijing will never say it is fighting the United States. Ask a Chinese diplomat and you will hear the vocabulary of peace: dialogue, restraint, and a negotiated settlement. Watch what Beijing actually does and you will see something else entirely.Subscribe nowDear readers and subscribers,In this article, in collaboration with argue that China has entered a hybrid confrontation with Washington while publicly denying it. Whatever you
Lavrov Turns the Hybrid War Question Back on Europe (opens the original)
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Transcript and video: Lavrov on hybrid war, drones, Germany's Wadephul, US talks on diplomatic property and Poland's Patriots. Valdai, Sept 29, 2026.Subscribe nowDear readers and subscribers,At the press availability after the 23rd meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club on September 29, 2026. Sergey Lavrov was asked whether Russia is waging a covert hybrid war against Europe. He redefined the question
In memory of Marina Vlady (opens the original)
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Remembering Marina Vlady: her 1988 Moscow street interview on Vysotsky, the man behind the statue, and the book of his poems she held in her hands.Subscribe nowDear readers and subscribers,In January 1988, Soviet… Read more
Armenia at 35: Pashinyan vs. Opposition (opens the original)
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Armenia marks 35 years of independence, but splits on what 'free' means as ties with Russia shift.Subscribe nowDear readers and subscribers,Here is something you may have missed from the Western news media coverage, and if you came across it, it may have been presented to you with a different spin.Armenia marked 35 years of independence with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declaring the republic only now, in peace rather than war, truly free. Speaking to citizens gathered in Yere
Fedorovski's Kremlin Lecture Comes to Cannes (opens the original)
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At a Cannes lecture on Kremlin history, diplomat Vladimir Fedorovski calls his AI-assisted analysis ‘nonsense’ and warns of its growing military use.Subscribe nowDear readers and subscribers,I attended Vladimir Fedorovski's lecture on the history of the Kremlin—from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Putin era—at Cannes' Théâtre Alexandre III on Septem
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