Vladimir Pachkov, SJ

The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for the Free Press

On October 15, 2006, the journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya was killed in the lift of her central…

2 years ago

Iran, Russia and China: Is there a ‘new Mongolian empire’ on the horizon?

Thomas Flichy de La Neuville’s book Chine, Iran, Russie: un nouvel empire mongol? was published in 2013.[1] At the time…

3 years ago

Afghani Idealism and the Games of the Great Powers

July 4th –  United States Independence Day – could have become an important date in Afghan history as well. On…

3 years ago

Siberia: One country, many peoples

If Russia is a country of extremes, Siberia is so to a greater extent. In Europe, Siberia is a byword…

3 years ago

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is one of the most mysterious countries in the world. The reason is simple: it is not easily accessible…

3 years ago

Conservative Russia

“Russia needs to be frozen”: these words, which are attributed to a 19th century thinker and also to a government…

3 years ago

The West and Russia: Why do we not understand each other?

Cultural roots of a confrontation After the end of the Soviet Union, both the pro-Western Russian elite and the vast…

3 years ago

The Kalmyks: Buddhists of Europe

When we talk about traditional religions that have been rooted for centuries in Europe, obviously we think first of all…

3 years ago

A New Turkish Empire in the East from the Bosphorus to China

Will there be a union of all Turkic peoples? For the first time in the 100-year history of the Turkish…

3 years ago

Chechnya: Conservative Islam as an alternative to Radical Islam?

“The term ‘moderate Islam’ is being used again. It was invented by the West. There is no moderate or radical…

3 years ago