Abramovich disgraced – a nation mourns
Vladimir Putin’s favourite oligarch – Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich – is now in disgrace. He faces a range of sanctions by the British government and today was disqualified by Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Russia
Putin’s London oligarchs: the dishonouring of Britain’s ‘elite’
This morning’s Sunday Times front page reports that MI5 and MI6 – Britain’s security and intelligence services – objected to the peerage awarded 18 months ago to Evgeny Lebedev, Russian Continue Reading →
Putin, Yeltsin, Falstaff: the brutal reality of transferring political and criminal power
The video above combines two clips illustrating the transfer of political power and its cold brutality. (Click square in bottom corner above to view full screen.) First, in March 2000: Continue Reading →
Putin attacks ‘neo-Nazis’ and ‘Banderites’: who does he mean and what does this rhetoric reveal?
Vladimir Putin has repeatedly referred to the need to crush ‘neo-Nazis’ and ‘Banderites’ as the key motives for his invasion of Ukraine. Neither Russian nor Western media have adequately explained Continue Reading →
Who was Stepan Bandera – and how does his history help explain the present crisis? Peter Rushton reports from London and Washington’s secret files
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted much ill-informed comment in nationalist circles. Many nationalists have chosen to believe an online fantasy world in which Vladimir Putin is really an Continue Reading →
Blair’s unusual silence explained
Many readers have wondered why Tony Blair has been remarkably quiet so far about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Look no further than Blair’s very close relationship with one of Putin’s Continue Reading →
Courageous boxer returns to Ukraine war zone
World heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has bravely returned to his Ukrainian homeland and posted an Instagram video calling for an end to the war. Usyk defeated the ‘British’ boxer Anthony Continue Reading →
Europe’s future is neither Washington nor Moscow!
H&D readers will probably be divided in their response to this morning’s news that Russian forces have invaded Ukraine. Having for a lifetime become used to rejecting the lies of Continue Reading →
Moscow’s “fake factory” – 2022 version derided by Western media; 1945 version enshrined in Western law
Analysis of recent Russian propaganda in the Ukraine shows that films purporting to show Ukrainian ‘saboteurs’ were actually made by a Russian ‘fake factory’. The anti-Putin investigative journalists at Bellingcat Continue Reading →
The sick state of British ‘justice’
In July 2015 a howling mob of ultra-leftwing Jews confronted a British Army veteran on Whitehall. So that no one could mistake their political outlook – and the tradition of Continue Reading →