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Foreign toponyms

Posted on 25/08/2022 by freelander

When we allude to foreign proper nouns and toponyms we bump into a couple of linguistic obstacles, translation and transliteration, which present two different sides of the same issue. Transliteration (which for us westerners is synonym with romanization) deals with … Continue reading →

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Slava Ukraini

Posted on 23/07/2022 by freelander

Yes, I also uttered that watchword once. But before scolding me with swinish fury in your comments, please let me tell you how it happened. It was my very first trip to Ukraine. I knew nothing about that country except … Continue reading →

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Exercises on sociopolitics

Posted on 15/07/2022 by freelander

Today I am going to propose the reader some exercises (which I hope to be amusing) on a sociopolitical situation. I will set forward a fictitious–yet plausible–scenario and then ask some questions. It may be a good way, I believe, … Continue reading →

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Global agenda and war in Donbass

Posted on 09/07/2022 by freelander

Index 1. The global agenda 2. The war in Donbass 3. Revving up goals fulfillment 4. The question The information channels I usually follow to be updated on the war in Donbass and its political implications agree, among other things, … Continue reading →

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Live with us the European dream

Posted on 20/06/2022 by freelander

Once more, Mrs. Ursula Vonderleyen has managed to chill her audience with her eloquent words: “We all know that Ukrainians are ready to die for the European perspective. We want them to live with us the European dream.” These two … Continue reading →

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Let’s castrate the Russians

Posted on 08/06/2022 by freelander

A couple of months after the special military operation in Ukraine begun, one of my most trustworthy Russian contacts (who, by the way, generally dislikes Vladimir Putin) told me the following, shocking story: “Yesterday I was talking with a doctor … Continue reading →

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Fridges, economics and artifice

Posted on 02/06/2022 by freelander

I’m learning so much with the Donbass war! And I want to share with my readers three of the most groundbreaking pieces of knowledge I’m acquiring thanks to the Western approach to that conflict. The first one is connected with … Continue reading →

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Nazism is unrepeatable

Posted on 30/05/2022 by freelander

As far as I understand, Nazism was the unique combination of a who, a where and a when: Adolf Hitler and the post-WWI Germany. One person, one country and one time. Outside of those three elements there can be neither … Continue reading →

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