Vladimir Golstein

Vladimir Golstein08.03.2025

What exactly is going on? Who is teaching whom? Same idiotic costumes, same rude behavior, same self-righteousness bordering on Chutzpah. Why all these antics during Trump’s address? Yes, Trump is prone to some obnoxious mannerisms. Fine. He obviously has more than that if he came to White House second time around. What exactly is he […]

Vladimir Golstein23.02.2025

February 23 is a big holiday in Russia. Day of Red Army, Day of Defender of Motherland, Man’s day. Long lasting Soviet tradition of celebrating men who served, serve or will serve in the army. Yes, like al men in uniform, many managed to distinguish themselves with feats of courage and strength. At the same […]

Vladimir Golstein22.02.2025

Perestroika is Coming to Town. I Mean Washington Town. Of course, the legacy of Gorbachev is complex. For many he was a hero, for many — a traitor. He did what was necessary! — No! He destroyed the best country on earth. I didn’t live in Russia during perestroika, but I know it was incredibly […]

Vladimir Golstein19.02.2025

Of course, I am not a historian of Trump impeachment proceedings, but from what I remember, they were mostly about the so-called “Ukraine-gate.” That is, Trump knew that Zelensky had plenty of dirt on Biden and his coke-head son. So he told Zelensky to give him some goods before he released another billion dollar packet […]

Vladimir Golstein16.02.2025

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50th Vice President of the United States James David Vance is Trolling Europeans into Trance. On the surface of it, they just don’t know how to react to the speech that asks them to look at themselves, rather than repeating the usual mantra: Russia—Russia—Ukraine—Money, Money—Russia—Russia. But there is something deeper, obviously. Russophobia had always been […]

Vladimir Golstein14.02.2025

“Never in the history of the world was one people as completely dominated intellectually and morally, by another as the people of the United States were by the people of Russia in the four years from 1946-to 1949,” observed Archibald MacLeish, a well known poet and the top official at State Department. Well, recently we’ve […]

Vladimir Golstein04.02.2025

What a strange deja vu one experiences reading Tchaikovsky’s letters provoked by Russian confrontation with Ottoman Empire in defense of Bulgarians and Serbs, butchered by the Turks for their rebellion. For a while, western press, led by British, didn’t want to hear anything bad about Turks or anything good about their victims or the Russians […]

Vladimir Golstein28.01.2025

You want insane. Here you have insane. You’ve all heard of Pavlov’s dog. The dog that has demonstrated physiological reflexes of animal brain in response to the external stimuli. Great Russian scientist, the Nobel Prize Winner, Ivan Pavlov, had studied these brain reflexes. So there was his monument in Kiev, in front of a hospital. […]

Vladimir Golstein01.12.2024

In the late XIX century, an American named George Kennan (distant relative of the famous George Kennan of the containment doctrine), traveled through Siberia. The dude loved Russia and used every opportunity (work for telegraph company and journalism) to travel through Russia’s most exotic parts. He collected some of his observations into a two volume […]

Vladimir Golstein10.11.2024

I Felt it First in Russian Speaking Community in the US. The drastic increase in hatred: political hatred that quickly became personal. Since 2014, the community became split. And ‘split” does not even cover the extend of it. Broken up, with one part canceling another. How dare they support Russia? How dare they speak the […]

Zelensky Redux, or Democrats in Congress

Sad Musings on Russia’s Patriotic Day

Trump’s Perestroika

Do Politicians Forget Personal Insults and Betrayals?

Vice Presient Vance is Trolling Europeans

Miasma of Madness

The More Things Change!

Ukrainian Madness

The Convicts this Moan Call a Song

“Deplorables” in the US

Japan to keep importing Russian LNG

The Deal of the Century for Trump the Peacemaker

Fasting

The Glory of the World