We hope that the reader and viewer will find this video clip interesting. It is the resignation speech given by President Boris Yeltsin on December 31, 1999, just before the New Year celebrations in Russia. It was at this time that the first elected president of the Russian Federation ceded his authority to a young […]
Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
Really? The professional liars are adding even more outlandish and ridiculous lies in their war on reality and truth. Now, we are to believe the mainstream media’s comedic conspiracy theory that Russia hacked the election for Trump.
In the 1990s, the “voice of Russian nationalism” was Vladimir Zhirinovsky. I was not the first to notice that his antics and incoherence was working in favor of Yeltsin. His real name is Edelstein. The consummate showman, he would appear whenever Yeltsin was in trouble or the opposition against him in the west grew. He would scream something about “nuking New York” for no reason, usually while in a speedo. This happened so many times that it was clear they were working together.
Nina Kouprianova is an independent analyst of geopolitics and culture. She earned her PhD (History) from the University of Toronto, focusing on modern and contemporary Russia, culture, and U.S. foreign policy. In this interview we discuss her translations and articles found at Espionage History Archive, Soul of the East and on her own blog, NinaByzantina. Critical of the leftist tyranny in modern academia, Nina tells us about her experiences in the West, as well as her upbringing in Russia.
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