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Meeting Protestants in Ukraine

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Russia and tagged A Jesus Mission, atheism, Austria, Battle of Poltava, Bible, Bolsheviks, Catherine the Great, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Crimea, Crimean Khanate, Dnipro, Donald Trump, Donbas, Donetsk, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Euromaidan, Evangelical Christianity, George Floyd, Germany, Gleb Kopalin, God, Golden Horde, Greek Catholic Uniates, GRU, Habsburgs, Hezbollah, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Ignatius Aphrem II, Igor Pilipyshka, Intelligence, Israel, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews for Jesus, KGB, Kharkiv, Kievan Rus, Kyiv Jewish Messianic Congregation, Latin Christendom, Lebanon, Left-Bank Ukraine, Little Green Men, Luhansk, Maidan Uprising, Mariupol, Mercy House, Minsk I, Minsk II, Mongols, NATO, Nazis, Nicodemites, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Protestantism, Protestants, Prussia, Reformation, religion, religious persecution, Right-Bank Ukraine, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Save One More Life, Second World War, secularism, siloviki, Soviet Union, spies, Stephen Smith, Syria, Twitch, Ukrainian Cyborgs, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, White Angels, Zaporizhiya on May 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged absolute monarchy, Anglosphere, aristocracy, Atatürk, autocracy, black cash, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Captive Nations, Chechnya, Cheka, Cheka Day, Chekists, chinovnichestvo, Christianity, civil liberties, civil society, collectivisation, Communism, corruption, cyber-attacks, Czechoslovakia, dekulakisation, democracy, democratic transition, Dobrarmiya, Duma, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, emancipation, espionage, Europe, far-Right terrorism, Federal Security Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Fundamental State Laws, Gennady Zyuganov, German Democratic Republic, Golden Horde, Homo Sovieticus, ideology, Imperialism, Joseph Stalin, Kievan Rus, liberalism, Mafia, Maria Snegovaya, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mongols, Mustafa Kemal, Narodniki, Narodniks, nationalism, Nichola II, nobility, October Manifesto, organised crime, Pereyaslav Agreement, Peter the Great, pluralism, Pyotr I, Red Army, religion, Right-wing extremism, Romania, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, securocrats, serfdom, SIGINT, signals intelligence, siloviki, Socialist Commonwealth, Soviet Union, surveillance, SVR, Terror, terrorism, third wave of democratisation, Tsar, Turkey, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Yuri Kovalchuk on July 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Russian Relationship with Israel: A History

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 December 2018

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel, Russia, Syria and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Abu Dawud, Abu Iyad, Abu Jihad, Abu Mazen, Abu Nidal, active measures, al-Qaeda, Aleksandr Shcherbakov, Aleppo, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Zhdanov, Antisemitism, Ariel Sharon, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Black September, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Carlos the Jackal, Chechnya, Christopher Andrew, Cold War, Communism, Czechoslovakia, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP, Doctors’ Case, Doctors’ Plot, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, Entebbe raid, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Golda Meir, GULAG, Hafez al-Assad, HAMAS, Hani al-Hassan, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Homo Sovieticus, Houthis, Idlib, Ilich Sánchez, Intelligence, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic Republic, Islamic State, Israel, Jackson-Vanik amendment, JCPOA, Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Jewish Defence League, Jews, jihadism, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Jonathan Brent, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Khaled Meshal, Khalil al-Wazir, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Kurds, Kuwait, Lebanon, Leonid Brezhnev, Liwa al-Baqir, Mahmoud Abbas, Main Adversary, Meir Kahane, missiles, Mitrokhin Archive, Mohammad Oudeh, Munich massacre, NATO, Nayef Hawatma, Nazi Germany, Operation NORTHERN SHIELD, Palestine Liberation Organization, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Qassem Suleimani, Rafat Abu Auon, refuseniks, Rudolf Slansky, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, S-300, Sabri al-Banna, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Saudi Arabia, Shah, Shi'a militias, siloviki, Six-Day War, Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet Union, Soviet Writers’ Union, Stalin’s Last Crime, Suez crisis, Syria, terrorism, The Gulag Archipelago, The World War Going Our Way, Turkey, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, urban guerrillas, Vasili Mitrokhin, Viktor Abakumov, Vladimir Naumova, Vladimir Putin, Wadi Haddad, Yasser Arafat, Yemen, Yuri Andropov, Zionism, Zionism is racism on December 12, 2018 by KyleWOrton.

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