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Russian MFA Declares War on Guardian Hack Carole Cadwalladr
•�July 19, 2018
•�300 Words •�62 Comments
The Tweet in question. Incidentally, kudos to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for this unexpectedly strong show of support. #FreeMariaButina As I have pointed out, Maria Butina is neither a spy, nor even a Russian agent: US Arrests Russia's Foremost 2nd Amendment Activist. Unless this is rapidly resolved, hopefully Russia will escalate with symmetrical... Read More
Shredding Sochi... in a Good Way
•�January 31, 2014
•�1,100 Words •�6 Comments
After a long break, a new contribution to the Experts Panel: Western journalists have been in the business of dismissing Russian achievements and magnifying Russian failures ever since Putin drove them into a collective derangement syndrome - he even haunts their dreams, as recently revealed by the Guardian's Shaun Walker - so the preemptive besmirching... Read More
From RIA to Russia Today* (Not RT)
•�December 9, 2013
•�1,600 Words •�35 Comments
RIA Novosti, Russia's main state-run news agency, is going to be dissolved. So is Voice of Russia, a publication that I've written for, and Rossiyskaya Gazeta and its Russia Beyond the Headlines project*. They are to be merged into a new organization confusingly called Rossiya Segodnya ("Russia Today"), which is NOT the same as the... Read More
Mark Feygin Treating Pussies Badly
•�April 12, 2013
•�800 Words •�26 Comments
Everybody in the Western media seems to have forgotten Pussy Riot. Well, not forgotten, they still wheel them out every so often as symbols of the repressiveness of the Putin regime - but news of actual developments in the affair have come to a standstill. Which is a pity, because they undermine the commonly accepted... Read More
Liberal Butthurt Over the Depardieu Defection
•�January 24, 2013
•�1,500 Words •�9 Comments
I had great fun observing the fallout over Depardieu's "defection" to Russia. The reason for the apostrophes is of course because it had nothing to do with it. It was Depardieu trolling Hollande and the French "Socialists", and Putin trolling Westerners and his own homegrown "democratic journalists." (Or maybe not? In any case, I for... Read More
The Guardian Censors You Even If You Don't Overtly Disagree with Them
•�January 21, 2013
•�1,000 Words •�7 Comments
Here is the article, by Nick Cohen. And below are the two comments (one by myself) that were censored. I have corrected a few grammatical points in this post. They were eventually restored, wonder of wonders, but only after two days - and therefore all interest - had passed, and after I had sent an... Read More
Andrew Ryvkin's Strange Ideas About the Russian Economy
•�January 21, 2013
•�900 Words •�6 Comments
By the usual standards of Guardian reporting on Russia, this one by GQ Russia editor Andrew Ryvkin is... well, about par for the course. Citing a recent PwC report that Russia will overtake Germany to become Europe's biggest economy in 2030, he asks, "Should we believe them?" Well, the PwC is just repeating predictions made... Read More
Major Misconceptions About the Dima Yakovlev Law
•�December 30, 2012
•�2,700 Words •�23 Comments
1. For Russian orphans life is much more dangerous in Russia than in America. Let's agree to disregard the hidden subtext which implies that any country ought to give over its orphans to foreign nationals should it be ranked safer for children. Let's first examine if the claim that Russia is 39 times more dangerous... Read More
The Guardian On China and Russia
•�December 29, 2012
•�700 Words •�3 Comments
Keeping up with the Guardian's stream of textual diarrhea in its Russia coverage is a quixotic task, and one that I do not really have the stamina for (although Alex Mercouris does this remarkably effectively). Still, when it comes to certain issues I'm particularly interested in, such as demography, or China-Russians relations as in this... Read More
My Piece On Pussy Riot At al Jazeera
•�August 23, 2012
•�500 Words •�54 Comments
A PR disaster: Five views on Pussy Riot's war. Go, read. Comment there if possible. Just a couple more notes: Since I submitted the article, commentator peter made one of the most convincing arguments against the validity of the sentence against Pussy Riot. I suppose this will be raised in PR's appeal. Just to clarify,... Read More
The Guardian's Pussy Worship
•�July 29, 2012
•�1,000 Words •�30 Comments
From their latest Editorial / anti-Putin rant, via Mercouris. It is not with the ideological rhetoric that I have an issue with; it's The Guardian, after all. Nor am I especially interested in defending Pussy Riot's prosecution (my own views on the matter jive with Kononenko's). I do however have an issue with the The... Read More
Alex Dryden, A Hack's Hack
•�June 26, 2012
•�1,300 Words •�29 Comments
Just when I thought the paper of Luke "I Plagiarize Off The eXile" Harding and Miriam "Putin Stole My Dry Cleaning Ticket" Elder could get no more incompetent, vindictive, and mendacious in its Russia coverage, it did. I present: Putin calls in Darth Vader to tighten his grip on Russia's energy assets by Alex Dryden,... Read More
Russian Journalists Are Far Safer Than Mexican Journalists, Ordinary Russians, and Their Own Counterparts Under Yeltsin
•�May 23, 2012
•�1,100 Words •�61 Comments
One of the most common tropes against Russia is that critical (independent, democratic, etc) journalists there are dying like flies, presumably because of the "culture of impunity" created by Putin or even on his express orders. It is rarely mentioned that the statistical chances of a Russian journalist dying by homicide is an order of... Read More
Preliminary Thoughts On the Election Results
•�March 4, 2012
•�1,000 Words •�19 Comments
Latest results are getting in that Putin got 63.8%. That a second round would be avoided was never really in serious doubt for the past month, nonetheless the election would still be important from several other perspectives, such as the level of falsifications (in particular, in comparison with 2011), and the relative performance of Zhirinovsky,... Read More
Edward McMillan-Scott, Lord of Western Tropes On Russia
•�June 21, 2011
•�1,300 Words •�11 Comments
Over the years, I have come across my fair share of liars and incompetents writing about Russia in major Western media outlets. But rarely have I encountered such heights of self-righteous arrogance and clownish, pathetic ignorance as Edward McMillan-Scott displays in his latest screed for The Guardian: "David Cameron must stand up to Putin", where... Read More
Guardian Censorship: Some Comments Are Freer Than Others
•�February 8, 2011
•�800 Words •�34 Comments
In a recent editorial, The Guardian complained about the expulsion of their Moscow correspondent, Luke Harding. All the usual Russia tropes were brought up in explanation, including its "shrinking space for a free press." But Harding's "crowning offense", at least according to the Guardian's "guess", was "his association with this paper's story on what the... Read More
The End of Western Freedom (And Why Russians Should Ignore Their Hypocritical Lectures)
•�September 15, 2010
•�1,200 Words •�28 Comments
In a recent post at Streetwise Professor, in reply to a Russophobe commentator, democracy activist* and net-buddy Mark Sleboda compiled a damning indictment of the real state of Western freedom. Newsflash: for the world's (self-appointed) moral arbitrators, it's nothing to write home about! It's well worth reading, which is why I'm reprinting it here with... Read More
The Western Media, Craven Shills for Their Neocon Masters
•�August 10, 2008
•�2,200 Words •�11 Comments
I noted in my first post, Flare-Up in the Caucasus, Well, I'm retracting it now. The propaganda model has been kicked into high gear in the West and turned squarely against Russia. Although it is acceptable for Georgia to attack Ossetia, with callous disregard for the lives of Russian citizens and UN-mandated peacekeepers (not to... 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.