6/While there were many earnest left-leaning participants in Occupy, it is an error to view it only through that lens. Many of the networks and people involved are now going full bore on 'third position' attacks within the US and Europe, in alliance with Putin. Pay attention.
Kaulbars was also famous for his service in Turkestan – as an active member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, he was a colonial officer and explorer at the same time. Few know that he also sought to mobilize Ukrainian patriotism in the service of empire./
Maude Barlow / I am retired from the Council of Canadians and completely disassociate myself from any Council of Canadians chapters supporting Dimitri Lascaris and his views on Russia with which I completely disagree.
The GOP was happily working with far-right Russian émigrés during the Cold War whose ideology was no different from the ex-CPSU member neo-Nazis who emerged after 1991 It's only natural that the GOP feels strong affinity with the post-1991 hard right regimes of Russia