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Is Putin giving NATO a resounding slap in the face?

The West fears a Russian offensive in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin finally wants to see progress in the war. But there is no end to the war in sight either way, says Wladimir Kaminer. One of the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was the exodus of cultural workers who do not […]

Even the dead must make their cross for Putin

Russia is voting, but there is no choice: Vladimir Putin will be the old and new president. In Soviet times there was at least something for people to win in “elections,” says Vladimir Kaminer. The three-day Russian presidential election, discreetly referred to as an “electoral measure” by most Russian-speaking media, seems to be arousing more […]