Anton Shekhovtsov

1 week ago | materie.at | Anton Shekhovtsov

Die jüngsten Ergebnisse des Eurobarometers, des wichtigsten Meinungsforschungsinstruments der EU, können so manchen Optimisten der europäischen Integration nur erfreuen. Die EU genießt nun bei der Hälfte der Bevölkerung ein positives Image – ein Anstieg um zwei Prozentpunkte seit dem Frühjahr 2024 und fünf Punkte mehr als im Herbst 2023.

1 week ago | substack.com | Anton Shekhovtsov

Romania held a re-run of the first round of the presidential elections yesterday. The original first round, held on 24 November 2024, was cancelled – along with the entire electoral process at the time. The official reason for the cancellation was foreign (specifically Russian) interference in the elections. Beyond the façade of an alleged response to Russian political warfare, however, it was evident that the real reason for the cancellation was the outcome itself: the wrong candidate had won.

1 week ago | substack.com | Anton Shekhovtsov

This is the sixth, final part of the essay “Putin’s Genocidal Quest for Symbolic Immortality”. Previous parts: (1) Introduction, (2) “Moscow is silent”, (3) His-story of Ukraine, (4) “A fascist coup!”, (5) The architecture of a crime. In 79 CE, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius annihilated several Roman settlements, most famously Pompeii and Herculaneum.

1 week ago | substack.com | Anton Shekhovtsov

This is part five (out of six) of the essay “Putin’s Genocidal Quest for Symbolic Immortality”. Previous parts: (1) Introduction, (2) “Moscow is silent”, (3) His-story of Ukraine, (4) “A fascist coup!”. An acquaintance of Vyacheslav Volodin, chair of the lower house of the Russian parliament, described him as “not the most intellectual person”, but someone who “is able to sense quite a lot – not with his brain but with his spine.

2 weeks ago | substack.com | Anton Shekhovtsov

This is part four (out of six) of the essay “Putin’s Genocidal Quest for Symbolic Immortality”. Previous parts: (1) Introduction, (2) “Moscow is silent”, (3) His-story of Ukraine. Legend has it that when Stalin’s executioners prepared to shoot Grigoriy Zinoviev – a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and close ally of Lenin who later fell out of favour with Stalin – he shouted that his execution was “a fascist coup”.