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Translation: Egor Kholmogorov - A Cruel French Lesson
and •�November 17, 2015
•�1,900 Words •�2 Comments
A Cruel French Lesson, by Egor Kholmogorov appeared in the November 14 issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda, one of the leading Russian dailies. It outlines what is pretty much the standard right-wing conservative Russian position on the #ParisAttacks. Some context: After the terrorist strikes, many outspoken Russian liberals rushed to wrap their digital selves in the... Read More
Egor Prosvirnin Gets Shoahed. Is Novorossiya Next?
•�September 18, 2015
•�1,900 Words •�11 Comments
One of the more frustrating misconceptions Westerners have about Russia - including even many of the more well meaning ones - is that Putin is some kind of nationalist. He is not. Nor was he ever. It appeared he might be sort of leaning in that direction in the heady days after Crimea's return into... Read More
Cathedral Foreign Policy: My NRx Podcast with Surviving Babel and Nick B. Steves
•�July 11, 2015
•�1,200 Words •�13 Comments
Artwork by Vsevolod Ivanov. A few months ago, I had the pleasure of participating in an "Ascending the Tower" podcast produced by neoreactionary luminaries Surviving Babel and Nick B. Steves. We talked about foreign policy, especially as it pertains to Russia, modern European and American history, the rise of Western universalism, neocons, and the Ukrainian... Read More
Kiselev Wants to Take You to a Gay Bar
•�July 6, 2015
•�2,100 Words •�37 Comments
A few days after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage throughout the US, a fairly (in)famous Russian TV presenter expressed his support for gay civil unions on the nation's second biggest TV channel in front of a big projector screen blaring out "Love Works Miracles." No, he was not beaten up by skinheads with iron... Read More
Russian Faith in "Western-Style Democracy" Reaches All-Time Low
•�March 27, 2015
•�300 Words •�3 Comments
This will probably be of no surprise to people who follow Russian sentiments, but still worth pointing out that according to the latest polls by Levada - an independent polling agency headed by pro-Western liberals - support for this thing called "Western-style democracy" has never been lower. This is quite a change from 2012, at... Read More
Schrodinger's Putin
•�March 15, 2015
•�1,800 Words •�14 Comments
After a week-long absence, the Internet is growing rife with rumors about Putin's health and whereabouts. Has he produced a heir with Alina Kabaeva? Is he plotting nuclear war with the West from his bunker at Mount Yamantau? Has he been abducted by aliens? Or is the Mausoleum about to get a new occupant?? Let's... 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.