https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/06/how-end-russias-war-ukraine/conclusion-assuring-future-europe
Ownerless
This is indeed a revealing linguistic detail. Lavrov says that Central & E European states became "unowned" after dissolution of Warsaw Pact. Not sovereign, independent or free, but "unowned". https://t.co/oBzzl6StMy — Nigel Gould-Davies (@Nigelgd1) December 28, 2021
The war on all
I’m reading Keir Giles’ Russia’s War on Everybody and find it fascinating – in so many details it confirms what I learned from my own experience on the ‘front line’ from circa 2003 until 2014, and then again from 2014 to the present day. In my blog A Step At A Time I tried to pass… Continue reading The war on all
Finlandization
The Silent Estate? [Vaikeneva valtiomahti?] by Esko Salminen. Kleio ja nykypäivä. Edita. Helsinki, 1996. 323 pp. In this newly-published study, Esko Salminen gives a detailed analysis of the process of ‘Finlandization’ as it affected the Finnish press and other public media during the period 1968-1991. The book is remarkable in being the first full-length Finnish-language… Continue reading Finlandization
Van Gogh’s Ear
Am working on a translation of ‘Van Goghs øre’ from ‘Lyden af skyer’ VAN GOGH’S EAR The unknown Vincent van Gogh settles in the Yellow House in Arles on the recommendation of his brother Theo, Vincent paints under a wild sun, is intoxicated by the landscape there. There is no colour that does not… Continue reading Van Gogh’s Ear