If You Want To Understand What’s Going On In Russia ~ Video: Obama’s Looting Of Ukraine

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The host, Vladimir Soloviev ~ VS in the subtitles.

Host:
Vladimir Solovyov, a popular Russian TV and radio journalist

Guests:
Sergei Markov: a Deputy Chairman of the Russian Public Forum on International Affairs
Andrei Isaev: the Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on labor, social policy and veterans affairs
Sergei Mikheev: political scientist
Nikolai Starikov: a writer and a co-chairman of Great Fatherland Party
Evgeny Tarlo: a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation

The Americans Even Appear To Be Intent On Telling The Penguins In The Arctic How To Live, How To Vote, And Whether Or Not To Discriminate Against Seals!

If you want to understand what’s going on in Russia, then this is seriously insightful. One can’t usually get captions for this show, but a group of volunteers around the world did it for this show, and shared them with us.

This is the nation’s favorite political talk show. These are prominent politicians, authors, journalists, and academics. They are very representative of main-stream thinking in Russia. This is no “censored”, or “managed” media. This is the real deal, what most people in Russia think.

The audience applause is also real, not staged.

The format is typically Russian: emotional, slightly chaotic, with flashes of brilliance.

If you don’t have time for the whole thing, then pay attention to what one of the guests, Nikolai Starikov, says.

Nikolai Starikov, an up-and-coming politician.

He is an up-and-coming force in Russian politics. An historian who has become very popular due to his history books aimed at a broad, popular audience, he is omni-present in the media. He recently started a political party, which is steadily gaining in popularity. He is very conservative.

You’ll be hearing more about him in the future, we think. He’s very smart, very articulate, and very popular.

His comments start at the following points: 7.24, 16.50, 27.31, 39.04.

Just so you understand how poorly the western media reports about what is going on here, 90% of journalists who cover Russia do not speak Russian well enough to understand this kind of fast-clip debate. And this program isn’t usually translated. So they are really playing catch-up most of the time.

We keep repeating it. Most people in the West, and especially the media which writes about Russia, have a very foggy understanding about what is going on here.

This show is from one of our most insightful contributors and analysts, The Saker.

Ask yourself the following questions about this very mainstream “state approved” television program.

a) If the Kremlin wanted to backstab Novorussia [Ukraine] – would it allow such shows on prime time TV?
b) What will happen to Putin if he lets Novorussia [Ukraine] be over-run by the [European Union] Nazi death squads?
c) Do you detect any sign of fatigue, fear, demoralization, surrender or weakness which would indicated to you that “the sanctions are biting” and the Russian public opinion getting weary or otherwise willing to negotiate with the [Kiev] Ukraine, the EU or the USA?

Novorussia was a historical term of the Russian Empire in 1764-1873 denoting an area north of the Black Sea, presently part of Ukraine. It used to be Ukrainian Cossack heartland until the Cossack Hetmanate was dismantled. Wikipedia

Again, this is very “mainstream”, I could *easily* have found far more “patriotic” or “anti-Nazi” shows. But I wanted to share with you something very “middle of the road”, the tip of a much bigger iceberg. I hope that you will find this interesting.

Kind regards,

The Saker

Russian Insider