1/ Putin's claim that Ukraine is run by 'Nazis' is absurd - Zelensky's government is patently liberal/democratic;
It's also deeply hypocritical, given Putin/United Russia's increasing ultranationalist bent, and Aleksandr Dugin's influence...
#bbcnews #newsnight
It's also deeply hypocritical, given Putin/United Russia's increasing ultranationalist bent, and Aleksandr Dugin's influence...
#bbcnews #newsnight
2/...But it would be good to see a proper analysis of the armed far-right in both countries;
Some minor reports note the paramilitary Azov Battalion & Right Sector in Ukraine, but almost none detail core far-right elements both of Donbas separatists & the Russian army #Newsnight
Some minor reports note the paramilitary Azov Battalion & Right Sector in Ukraine, but almost none detail core far-right elements both of Donbas separatists & the Russian army #Newsnight
3/ I can't believe that no mainstream outlets have recently analysed Putin's ideological debt to Dugin, given the eerie alignment between the former's wild war rhetoric on Ukrainian 'illegitimacy' and the views of the latter.
4/...This interesting 2016 @IFRI_ paper asserts that 'Russia’s use of right-wing
radicals on the side of the “separatists” in Donetsk/Lugansk provinces
had greater military/political repercussions than the involvement of
Ukrainian far-right groups'
ifri.org/sites/default/…
radicals on the side of the “separatists” in Donetsk/Lugansk provinces
had greater military/political repercussions than the involvement of
Ukrainian far-right groups'
ifri.org/sites/default/…
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