Soviet and Russian policymakers, not to mention agents of the secret police such as Putin, were especially adept at constructing Potemkin villages that created the illusion of normality amid death ...

Soviet and Russian policymakers, not to mention agents of the secret police such as Putin, were especially adept at constructing Potemkin villages that created the illusion of normality amid death and ...

Soviet and Russian policymakers, not to mention agents of the secret police such as Putin, were especially adept at constructing Potemkin villages that created the illusion of normality amid death ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is starting 2025 with a bang. In a nod to U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire for a settlement in Ukraine, the Kremlin has announced its readiness for negotiations ...

So he built a chain of villages along the banks of the Dnieper River ... institutions are stuffed with party cadres the 1996 constitution is a Potemkin constitution, just as the Soviet constitution of ...

The collapse of the crumbling Soviet system in 1989-91 showed it up as a paper tiger: a Potemkin village unable to match the free world in the long run. Now that the once-empty vistas of space are a ...