Sebastian Huluban
@hulubans.bsky.social
Sic transit commedia mundi!
Since 1825: “All the nations of Europe are attaining laws and liberty.The Russian people deserve both.”
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Two centuries ago, Russian revolutionaries tried to change the world
Bloodied and exiled, the Decembrists failed. But they made a start
economist.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Since 1825: “All the nations of Europe are attaining laws and liberty.The Russian people deserve both.”
economist.com/christmas-sp...
economist.com/christmas-sp...
How Ukraine tragedy is not actually another contingency of the post Cold War self-proclaimed victory. Hybris is always just behind the halls of pompous glory.
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
How Ukraine tragedy is not actually another contingency of the post Cold War self-proclaimed victory. Hybris is always just behind the halls of pompous glory.
If indeed Russians want again ‘a holly alliance’ / ‘Christian alliance’ - this time as vassals of China against China - chances are high it will end in ‘a greater success’ than in 1815.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
If indeed Russians want again ‘a holly alliance’ / ‘Christian alliance’ - this time as vassals of China against China - chances are high it will end in ‘a greater success’ than in 1815.
Age, attitude, character: enough criteria to understand which one will survive only as long he is ‘in power’. As about their respective countries, it must be obvious in which one a democratic, open, peaceful transfer of power is possible. The rest is speculating into the future.
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Age, attitude, character: enough criteria to understand which one will survive only as long he is ‘in power’. As about their respective countries, it must be obvious in which one a democratic, open, peaceful transfer of power is possible. The rest is speculating into the future.
Known unknown:
‘K.’ from a first name - Kirill?
2. ‘K.’ from a last name - Kushner?
3. ‘K.’ from both first & last name - Keith Kellogg?
Looks like at least it is not anymore ‘a Polichinelle secret’.
‘K.’ from a first name - Kirill?
2. ‘K.’ from a last name - Kushner?
3. ‘K.’ from both first & last name - Keith Kellogg?
Looks like at least it is not anymore ‘a Polichinelle secret’.
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Known unknown:
‘K.’ from a first name - Kirill?
2. ‘K.’ from a last name - Kushner?
3. ‘K.’ from both first & last name - Keith Kellogg?
Looks like at least it is not anymore ‘a Polichinelle secret’.
‘K.’ from a first name - Kirill?
2. ‘K.’ from a last name - Kushner?
3. ‘K.’ from both first & last name - Keith Kellogg?
Looks like at least it is not anymore ‘a Polichinelle secret’.
“Diplomatic cables documented the catastrophe. The evidence was there for anyone willing to see it. Yet in November 1933, as the death toll rose into the millions, US President Franklin Roosevelt extended diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union.”
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/64700
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/64700
Opinion: How the West Betrayed Starving Ukraine Long Before Munich
As Trump seeks to make a deal over Ukraine with a modern-day Russian Stalin, we should recall what happened the last time a US president did this.
www.kyivpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“Diplomatic cables documented the catastrophe. The evidence was there for anyone willing to see it. Yet in November 1933, as the death toll rose into the millions, US President Franklin Roosevelt extended diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union.”
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/64700
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/64700
Yet another accurate report on the Russian traditional values. Worth a read.
unherd.com/2025/11/russ...
unherd.com/2025/11/russ...
Russia’s veterans are bringing violence home
unherd.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Yet another accurate report on the Russian traditional values. Worth a read.
unherd.com/2025/11/russ...
unherd.com/2025/11/russ...
For years, when heat reaches Kremlin they constantly use 2 lines:
1) coup d’etat;
2) nuclear weapons.
news.sky.com/story/vladim...
1) coup d’etat;
2) nuclear weapons.
news.sky.com/story/vladim...
Vladimir Putin tests new 'invincible' nuclear-powered missile
The weapon travelled 14,000km (8,700 miles) and was in the air for about 15 hours during the test on Tuesday.
news.sky.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
For years, when heat reaches Kremlin they constantly use 2 lines:
1) coup d’etat;
2) nuclear weapons.
news.sky.com/story/vladim...
1) coup d’etat;
2) nuclear weapons.
news.sky.com/story/vladim...
Moldova pro-Russia parties refuse to even speak the national language. Now, because they probably failed to gather enough votes are calling followers to the streets of Moldova capital. For any pro-Russian, losing democratic elections is not a failure, but a chance for coup d’etat.
September 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Moldova pro-Russia parties refuse to even speak the national language. Now, because they probably failed to gather enough votes are calling followers to the streets of Moldova capital. For any pro-Russian, losing democratic elections is not a failure, but a chance for coup d’etat.
Looks like a demented ‘special military operation’ with no objectives has been the best antidote, though: “Russia’s Current Demographic Crisis Is Its Most Dangerous Yet”
carnegieendowment.org/russia-euras...
carnegieendowment.org/russia-euras...
Russia’s Current Demographic Crisis Is Its Most Dangerous Yet
The key difference between the current demographic crisis and the previous one is that the latter was significantly mitigated by an element that is now absent: immigration.
carnegieendowment.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Looks like a demented ‘special military operation’ with no objectives has been the best antidote, though: “Russia’s Current Demographic Crisis Is Its Most Dangerous Yet”
carnegieendowment.org/russia-euras...
carnegieendowment.org/russia-euras...
Reposted by Sebastian Huluban
‘Die Untergang’…
September 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
‘Die Untergang’…
Precisely: Putin desperately wants to have the Russian army smashed by NATO in order to cover up they’ve been already defeated by Ukrainians. Anything works in order to postpone the inevitable overthrow of the indicted war criminals regime haunting the Kremlin.
thedefensepost.com/2025/09/24/g...
thedefensepost.com/2025/09/24/g...
Germany Says Russian Airspace Incursions Could Be ‘Escalation Trap'
German Defense Minister Pistorius urged NATO to stay calm over alleged Russian airspace violations, warning against an escalation trap.
thedefensepost.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Precisely: Putin desperately wants to have the Russian army smashed by NATO in order to cover up they’ve been already defeated by Ukrainians. Anything works in order to postpone the inevitable overthrow of the indicted war criminals regime haunting the Kremlin.
thedefensepost.com/2025/09/24/g...
thedefensepost.com/2025/09/24/g...
Reposted by Sebastian Huluban
On this date in 1939, the USSR invaded Poland in cooperation with its ally, Nazi Germany.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...
Bloodlands
From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killi...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On this date in 1939, the USSR invaded Poland in cooperation with its ally, Nazi Germany.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...
‘This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic for Russia’s prospects: a petrostate doubling down on oil and artillery in the middle of a technological revolution. The Kremlin says it’s waging a war of destiny; in reality, it’s missing the 21st century.’
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Russia Is Losing the War—Just Not to Ukraine
A war meant to catalyze national revival has instead become a case study in national self-harm.
www.theatlantic.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
‘This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic for Russia’s prospects: a petrostate doubling down on oil and artillery in the middle of a technological revolution. The Kremlin says it’s waging a war of destiny; in reality, it’s missing the 21st century.’
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
On how the minds of indicted war criminals of Russian Federation work: political re-education, indoctrination, and military training for children to be used against the families & country they’ve been kidnapped from. Know something more depraved than this?
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Ukraine's Stolen Children: Inside Russia's Network of Re-education and Militarization
The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) has concluded that children from Ukraine have been taken to at least 210 facilities inside
ysph.yale.edu
September 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
On how the minds of indicted war criminals of Russian Federation work: political re-education, indoctrination, and military training for children to be used against the families & country they’ve been kidnapped from. Know something more depraved than this?
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
They built a parallel reality out of wooden language, got self-mesmerized by it and even managed to attract into their mediocre narrative naives, functional illiterates and other superficial beings. Russians are truly committed to inherit Soviet legacy to its very end.
August 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
They built a parallel reality out of wooden language, got self-mesmerized by it and even managed to attract into their mediocre narrative naives, functional illiterates and other superficial beings. Russians are truly committed to inherit Soviet legacy to its very end.
Either Xi has a PLA (command) problem or PLA has a Xi (loyalty) problem. Tertium non datur.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Xi Unleashes China’s Biggest Purge of Military Leaders Since Mao
He’s ousted almost a fifth of the generals whom he personally appointed, raising the question: Is it a sign of political strength, or of his weakness?
www.bloomberg.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Either Xi has a PLA (command) problem or PLA has a Xi (loyalty) problem. Tertium non datur.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
How to better show Russia they are just 'beyond' Europe:
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield
Restoring the EU’s drained bogs would stop both Russian tanks and planet-warming pollution.
www.politico.eu
August 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
How to better show Russia they are just 'beyond' Europe:
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
Whenever Russia foreign minister Lavrov speaks in public, better read & remember how accountable he is:
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/m...
Israel summons Russia envoy over minister’s Hitler comments
Israel condemns comments by Sergei Lavrov, who said Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’ and the ‘most rabid antisemites tend to be Jews’
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Whenever Russia foreign minister Lavrov speaks in public, better read & remember how accountable he is:
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/m...
One of - if not the best - account of Russia’s historical genocidal triggers against just too many: ed. by @A_SHEKH0VTS0V “Russia against Ukraine: Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity” - Centre for Democratic Integrity
democratic-integrity.eu/russia-again...
democratic-integrity.eu/russia-again...
Russia against Ukraine: Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity - Centre for Democratic Integrity
RUSSIA AGAINST UKRAINE Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity Edited by Anton Shekhovtsov Russia’s political leadership – echoed by some external voices – often claims its i...
democratic-integrity.eu
August 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
One of - if not the best - account of Russia’s historical genocidal triggers against just too many: ed. by @A_SHEKH0VTS0V “Russia against Ukraine: Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity” - Centre for Democratic Integrity
democratic-integrity.eu/russia-again...
democratic-integrity.eu/russia-again...