15/01/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How State-Sponsored Blackmail Works in Russia
The art of kompromat. Kompromat is a Russian squishing together of two words: “compromising material,” which Americans refer to as “blackmail.”
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24/07/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Did you know Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason, on July 17, MH17 moved off the standard flight path that it had taken every time before, and moved north, toward rebel-held areas outside Donetsk? Or that the dispatchers summoned the plane lower just before the crash? Or that the plane had been recently reinsured? Or that the Ukrainian army has air defense systems in the area? Or that it was the result of the Ukrainian military mistaking MH17 for Putin’s presidential plane, which looks strangely similar?
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04/02/2014 | Frente Externo
The Loneliness of Vladimir Putin
He crushed his opposition and has nothing to show for it but a country that's falling apart
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25/09/2013 | Frente Externo
Here's What Went Unmentioned in Putin's New York Times Op-Ed
It takes some balls for a man who started two wars to reach out to the American people on 9/11 and plead for peace. But since President Obama can't seem to find his way out of the corner he's painted himself into and since nature hates a vacuum, Vladimir Putin has done just that.
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