Artículo POLIS: Política y Cultura, 09.08.2022 Marci Shore, profesora de historia (Yale)El presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, ha enviado al ejército ruso para recrear la Segunda Guerra Mundial en clave grotesca y posmoderna. Su “operación especial” para “desnazificar” Ucrania es un ataque no provocado contra un estado democrático soberano y una campaña de matanza masiva. El ejército ucraniano...
Russian Corruption Is an Urgent Security Threat
Artículo Foreign Policy, 05.07.2022 Nathalie Loiseau (eurodiputada francesa) y Peter Meijer (congresista norteamericano)
Western agencies need funding and power to tackle the Kremlin’s influence
Europeans will remember Feb. 24 the same way that Americans remember 9/11. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine shocked and horrified Europeans. And, as in the aftermath of the attack on...Putinología
Columna El Líbero, 13.06.2022 Ivan Witker, académico (U. Central) e investigador (ANEPE)
La guerra en Ucrania ha provocado nuevas obsesiones con el Kremlin, teniendo como centro augurios tremendamente ominosos sobre ese zar plebeyo llamado Vladimir Putin
Una de las actividades más frustrantes de la Guerra Fría fue, sin la menor duda, la “sovietología” o “kremlinología”; esa suerte de...What The West (Still) Gets Wrong About Putin
Artículo Foreign Policy, 04.06.2022 Tatiana Stanovaya, académica (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) y CEO (R.Politik)One of the reasons it’s so difficult to understand Russian intentions—and what is at stake in the Ukraine war—is the significant divergence between how external observers see events and how they are viewed from the Kremlin. Things that appear obvious to some,...
Putin Hasn’t Gone Far Enough for Russia’s Hawks
Artículo Foreign Policy, 27.05.2022 Amy Mackinnon, reportera de seguridad nacional e inteligencia
Discontent about the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine is growing inside Russia—but it’s not coming from dissidents, who have been jailed or forced into exile. Instead, it’s coming from hawkish veterans groups and military bloggers in Russia, who are expressing growing agitation with the slow pace...
‘They basically got everything wrong’: A Russian diplomat speaks out on the war.
Crónica The New York Times, 23.05.2022 Anton Troianovski
Boris Bondarev says President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia could have spent the last two decades “developing the country” but instead turned it “into some kind of total horror, a threat to the world.”Mr. Bondarev would know: He spent his career promoting Mr. Putin’s foreign policy. A midlevel diplomat at...
Moscow Is Using Memory Diplomacy to Export Its Narrative to the World
Artículo Foreign Policy, 25.06.2021 Jade McGlynn, an academic at the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies
Putin is pushing Russian revisionist history to bolster the Kremlin’s influence abroad and its legitimacy at homeThe memory of World War II—or the Great Patriotic War, as Russia calls it—occupies a cult-like status in Russian popular and political culture. At home, the...
El filósofo de cabecera de Putin
Columna El Mercurio, 07.05.2022 Heraldo Muñoz, ex ministro de RREE¿Quién es el inspirador ideológico de Vladimir Putin? Esta es una interrogante que muchos se hacen para entender la guerra de invasión que ha desencadenado contra Ucrania, y su visión de la Rusia presente. Habiendo sido agente de la KGB, el servicio de inteligencia de la ex Unión...
How rotten is Russia’s army?
Editorial The Economist, 29.04.2022
The might of the modern Russian army was supposed to show the world that Russian President Vladimir Putin had restored his country to greatness after the humiliation of the Soviet collapseInstead, poor progress and heavy losses in Ukraine have exposed deep flaws within Russia. For those threatened by Putin’s aggression, a diminished...
Soy la primera ministra de Estonia. Y Putin no puede ganar esta guerra
Columna The New York Times, 24.03.2022 Kaja Kallas, primera ministra de EstoniaA cualquiera que haya vivido bajo la ocupación soviética, las informaciones que llegan desde Ucrania nos traen de nuevo escenas que pensábamos que no volveríamos a ver. El bombardeo de civiles y la destrucción gratuita de edificios recuerdan las matanzas desencadenadas en el continente europeo...