Russian political psyche: history and modernity

[kaur]

David, thanks for Griffin backround. My humble opinion is that these European nationalists (I mean those who gathered in Petersburg) are just useful idiots for Kremlin. You can bring them to TV shows, take interviews, bring to different elections campaigns (Crimea, Donbas, Abkhazia, Transnistria etc). Russian people are watching all this and think even Europeans support them. Just one tool in their box. Who are they fooling? I think just their own people. At one moment I thought those European nationalists are like peace movement in 80s. If you consider FN support to Kremlin Russians are doing better this time and this is more serious achivement than St Petersburg episode.

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/defaul...7/19830201.pdf

One aspect from Saint Petersburg. Usually the most important person in the room will make the last speech. According to program this man was from RISI.

http://realpatriot.ru/reports/

Couple month ago the backround of RISI was made open.

As Kseniya Kirillova documents on Novy Region 2, the head of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISI), earlier part of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and now in the Presidential Administration, admits his institution “over the course of the year has actively cooperated with analysts of the Greek SYRIZA Party” and that its leader, the new Greek prime minister, visited RISI.

That admission came in the course of a press release from RISI director Leonid Reshetnikov, a retired lieutenant general, concerning statements by Aleksandr Sytin, his former staffer, about RISI’s involvement in planning the Russian Anschluss of Crimea and the war in the Donbass and its current appeals for forming “pro-Russian” groups in Belarus on the basis of ties with the security agencies in that country.

http://www.interpretermag.com/kremli...greek-premier/