Gagarin very nearly didn’t become the first man to successfully return from space
by Rashmee
Posted on April 13, 2022
The exploits of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space 61 years ago, are worth …
Read More61 years ago, Gagarin became the first man in space. It’s still worth celebrating
by Rashmee
Posted on April 12, 2022
These days, it’s thought to be in bad taste to praise Russia or Russians for …
Read MoreA grim Christmas for the Soviet Union, 30 years ago
by Rashmee
Posted on December 25, 2021
On Christmas Day, 30 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev hung up on the hammer and sickle, …
Read MoreHow to read Trump’s threat to bring the army on to America’s streets
by Rashmee
Posted on June 2, 2020 / The Focus
It was Peter Thiel, Donald Trump’s only Silicon Valley supporter before the 2016 US presidential …
Read MoreIs this an inflection point, just like 1989?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 15, 2019
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. A couple of years later, the Soviet Union collapsed. …
Read MoreFrom 1946, a memo to the future about the Russian view of truth or non-truth
by Rashmee
Posted on March 16, 2018
In the light of Russia’s centrality to our affairs, it’s worth reading George Kennan’s so-called …
Read MoreA year that dives once again into secret worlds – on screens big and small
by Rashmee
Posted on January 3, 2018
The new year is going to be big on a certain kind of cinema. The …
Read MoreTrump’s moral equivalence between Nazis & anti-Nazis? Read this 30-year-old essay
by Rashmee
Posted on August 17, 2017
Donald Trump sees a moral equivalence between neo-Nazis and those who protest againt them. Thirty-one …
Read More25 years ago today, the Soviet Union disappeared. Watch what’s coming in its place
by Rashmee
Posted on December 26, 2016
Today, 25 years ago, the Soviet Union officially became a relic of history. Its hammer …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK