The crisis in Eastern Ukraine has reached a new and dangerous phase this weekend. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has reported that the capture of OSCE observers in Slovyansk – three Germans plus one German interpreter, a Czech, a Dane, a...
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“Slovyansk is the Center of the Bermuda Triangle”
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“Special War” Goes Mainstream
One of the main missions of this blog is spreading the idea that intelligence matters in the real world, and that a lot of important activities involve covert action that is anything but transparent; many media types, unacquainted with such...
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After Crimea, is Transdniestria Next?
Transdniestria is one of the more obscure places in Europe. Officially this impoverished and tiny entity does not exist, being recognized by basically nobody; even its Russian client does not formally regard it as a state, though it does maintain...
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Putinism and the Anti-WEIRD Coalition
Vladimir Putin’s slow-rolling conquest of Ukraine has restarted openly today, with calls for an “independence referendum” for the newly declared “People’s Republic of Donetsk” in the East. It’s clear that Moscow intends to conquer something like half of Ukraine –...