By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 June 2023
The Decembrist Revolt: Russia’s Revolutionary Tradition Begins
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The Soviet Role and (the Lack of) “Justice” At Nuremberg
A Prop of Autocracy and a Nest of Spies: The Russian Orthodox Church
Christianity, the West, and Russia’s War on Ukraine
Bernard Lewis and the Armenian Genocide Question
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on June 7, 2015
In 2012, Bernard Lewis published his memoirs, Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian, which included a chapter on the court case brought against him in France in the 1990s for refusing to agree that the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 constitute genocide in the original sense of the term, as applied to the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry. The chapter is reproduced below.
Sanctions Alone Won’t Stop Putin in Ukraine
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on December 28, 2014
There has been much gloating from the U.S. government in the last few weeks about the damage the sanctions have done to the value of the Russian ruble, including a rather strange episode when President Obama adopted the third person to deny that he had been “rolled” by Vladimir Putin, and to take credit for the “financial crisis” Putin was now faced with.
From Syria To Ukraine, Obama Has Conceded To Putin
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on April 22, 2014
In the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea last month, The New York Times has reported on the tactics of subversion and provocation the Kremlin used to destabilise and ultimately conquer parts of Ukraine:
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