Russia: Tzar Putin vs Huguenots and Decembrists
INTRO: Russia is a monarchy. Politologists may call it cleptocracy, the opposition – a totalitarian state, and Putin’s ideologists – a sovereign democracy. In reality, the monarchy was restored in...
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A theme of imprisonment is very popular in Russian literature. It probably started with Pushkin, Lermontov and other poets of Russian Golden Age who often criticised Tzar, the autocratic Russian...
View ArticleThe Fifth Estate vs Mediastan: Assange, Wikileaks, Freedom, Cinema
D. Bruhl as Daniel Berg and B. Camberbatch as Julian Assange in the Fifth Estate motion picture What is freedom? Is this an ability to act according to one’s wishes without fear of being punished? Can...
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