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Putin on the Crimea Anniversary
•�March 19, 2021
•�400 Words •�29 Comments
From a speech yesterday: If you look at our map, our big map, Crimea and Sevastopol look like a small dot, but we are talking about the restoration of historical justice. We are talking about the importance of this land for our country and our people. Why? It is very simple. Our ancestors have been... Read More
Did Crimeans Support Joining Russia?
•�April 20, 2019
•�1,200 Words •�19 Comments
I looked at this question in depth in 2016 (see "Trump Is Factually Right on Crimea"). TLDR: Yes, the did, and overwhelmingly so. I am not going to go over this again, since I'd mostly just be repeating the older post. Suffice to say that since 2016, nothing has changed. In a VCIOM poll this... Read More
What If Russia Stood on the Sidelines While Crimea Burned?
•�March 19, 2019
•�2,500 Words •�125 Comments
One persistent criticism of Russia's decision to annex the Crimea/support its people's right to national self-determination [cross out as per your ideological preferences] is that it has had dubious benefits not just for Russia, but for Putin himself. This is a common take. For instance, as the 5th anniversary of Crimea's incorporation into Russia approached,... Read More
Map of Russian Patriotism
•�September 15, 2018
•�400 Words •�34 Comments
The previous post featured a map of Russian IQ based on an online survey (n=238,619) for Russian men interested in serving as contract soldiers run by the Ministry of Defense. The data has recently been released by Konstantin Sugonyaev (see PDF). However, as was suggested by Sugonyaev at the start, it is also possible to... Read More
Crimeans Send Their Regards
•�March 20, 2018
•�500 Words •�201 Comments
One of the more significant results of the election was that Putin got 92.2% in Crimea and 90.2% in Sevastopol. Moreover, these results were entirely fair. Here are the relevant graphs from Sergey Shpilkin, who approximates electoral fraud by the extent to which the vote for Putin becomes disproportional relative to the rest of the... Read More
Three Years Since the Crimean Spring
•�March 18, 2017
•�5 Comments
We all know what the US State Department and its PR lackeys (the Western media) thought about it. How about everyone else? What Crimeans thought about it: What the Crimean Tatars thought about it: What the Euromaidanists thought about it:
Trump Is Factually Right on Crimea
•�July 31, 2016
•�700 Words •�39 Comments
In a recent interview with ABC for which he is now taking flak, Trump said: As usual, Trump is right and cannot be stumped. Above is a list I compiled half a year ago with all the most prominent polls and referendums ever held that directly or indirectly queried Crimeans on their attitudes towards Russia... Read More
Country 404 vs. Crimea
•�November 23, 2015
•�800 Words •�17 Comments
According to a fable often told by Russians themselves, there once lived two peasants. One of them had one cow, the other had two cows. The poorer peasant found a lamp, rubbed it, and out popped a genie, who proceeded to ask him if he wanted 5 cows. He refused and instead wished for one... Read More
Five Myths About the Crimean Referendum
•�March 16, 2014
•�1,300 Words •�50 Comments
As voting gets underway - and by all accounts, it seems to be overwhelmingly heading for the pro-secession choice - it's worthwhile to dispel four common but erroneous beliefs about it. (1) The referendum is unconstitutional. This is true enough, as all of Ukraine would have to vote on it. But there is one big... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.