History Dec 06, 2024Dec 06, 2024 Polite comrades: How Moscow pioneered the use of “little green men” in Estonia a century ago A hundred years ago, on Dec. 1, 1924, Estonian communists attempted a coup d’état that enjoyed the direct… Mary Williams
History Oct 22, 2024Nov 11, 2024 Saladin and the wonderful lamp: Why Iran really believes Israel is using Djinns to fight Hezbollah A prominent Iranian theologian, Mustafa Karami, recently claimed that Israel’s success in eliminating Hamas and Hezbollah commanders can… Mary Williams
History Sep 13, 2024Nov 11, 2024 “I despise your court and I despise your power”: The complete collection of Alexei Navalny’s “last words” The Freedom Letters publishing house has defied a demand from the Russian Prosecutor General’s office to cease distribution… Mary Williams
History Aug 29, 2024Nov 11, 2024 Importing hate. The Russian roots of Georgia’s homophobia The Republic of Georgia is following Russia’s lead, taking steps to pass a bill that would ban “LGBT… Mary Williams
History Aug 14, 2024Nov 11, 2024 How Iranian Azerbaijan narrowly avoided becoming the USSR’s “new territory”: Excerpt from “Iran’s Kremlin Agents” by Mikhail Krutikhin The creation of puppet “people’s republics” with the goal of annexing them to Russia—like Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and… Mary Williams
History Jul 24, 2024Nov 11, 2024 Bland Samaritans: The modern-day descendants of the people that sparked the Arab-Israeli conflict The ongoing war in Gaza has become yet another episode in the never-ending sequence of battles for the… Mary Williams
History Jun 09, 2024Nov 11, 2024 Life after deaths: How nations reconcile following bloody conflicts With a “peace summit” set to take place in Switzerland later this June, speculation is again rampant regarding… Mary Williams
History May 21, 2024Nov 11, 2024 A Tatar gift: On the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars Eighty years ago, the Soviet authorities began the deportation of the indigenous population of Crimea. Within just a… Mary Williams
History May 12, 2024Nov 11, 2024 Gallows for a Propagandist: How the Third Reich’s chief proponent failed to defend himself in Nuremberg The Insider continues its series on international tribunals. In the aftermath of May 8, V-E Day, we remember… Mary Williams
History Mar 18, 2024Nov 12, 2024 Self-prosecution as a national sport. How Stalinism forged ‘self-criticism,’ self-denunciation, and other forms of public apology In today’s Russia, the petulant head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, is not the only one who… Mary Williams