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Sean Guillory
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Since there's an argument about russophobia on my twitter feed, I thought I'd offer my thoughts. Here are my "Ten Theses on Russophobia." They are not exhaustive. Just some ideas I've come up with when thinking about the concept.

Ten Theses on Russophobia

1. Russophobia is when Russia or its people are positioned as civilizational threats.

2. Russophobia is not racism. Russians are not a race. But Russophobia does deploy racist language and concepts.

3. Russophobia is a modern phenomenon. It first emerged in France under Napoleon with the propagation of the fraudulent “Testament of Peter the Great.”

4. Russophobia has mostly been a British phenomenon, particularly in the mid-19th century. It did not emerge in the United States until the 1880s.

5. Russophobia is not about Russia, but the use of Russia as Other to constitute a unified self/subject or undifferentiated civilizational space.

6. Russophobia is a form of psychological displacement where Russia embodies the anxieties and fears of the subject.

7. Russophobia is a political weapon instrumentalized by the Russian government to discredit legitimate criticism.

8. Russophobia is a historical fact, a discursive formation that ebbs and flows with geopolitics.

9. Russophobia is not an ideology that comes from below but formed and deployed by elites. Its mass appeal, when it exists, is manufactured.

10. Russophobia is an expression of Russia’s imagined liminality between civilization and barbarism. Russia is almost, but not quite.

Отношения между Россией и Грузией вошли в стадию самого острого кризиса с момента войны 2008 года. С 8 июля российским авиакомпаниям будет временно запрещено летать в Грузию. Соответствующий указ в пятницу, 21 июня, подписал президент Владимир Путин. Кроме того, правительству поручено обеспечить возвращение из Грузии российских граждан. Отношения двух стран резко обострились после того, как у здания парламента Грузии произошли беспорядки, поводом для которых стал визит туда российских депутатов и то, что один из них — Сергей Гаврилов — сел в кресло спикера законодательного органа республики. Комментируя происшедшее, президент Грузии Саломе Зурабишвили назвала РФ «врагом и оккупантом», а также нашла в своей стране «пятую колонну».

Острый конфликт спровоцировал визит в Грузию российских депутатов, приглашенных туда для участия в заседании Межпарламентской ассамблеи православия. В четверг у здания грузинского парламента собрались тысячи манифестантов. Их особое недовольство вызвало то, что депутат Сергей Гаврилов в ходе заседания ассамблеи сел в кресло спикера грузинского парламента и начал речь на русском языке. «Куда меня приглашает сесть принимающая сторона — там я и располагаюсь. По протоколу это почетное место отводится именно председательствующему Генассамблеи, а не секретарям. А Генеральную ассамблею ведет только президент Межпарламентской ассамблеи православия — в данном случае я»,— пояснил “Ъ” господин Гаврилов.

Манифестация у здания парламента была разогнана в ночь на пятницу спецназом, применившим слезоточивый газ, резиновые пули и водометы. Число пострадавших превысило 240 человек. Серьезные увечья получили до 60 человек. Были задержаны более 300 человек. Более 30 участников митинга отданы под суд по кодексу об административных правонарушениях.

«Это вакханалия радикальных политических сил Грузии, которые делают все возможное, чтобы помешать нормализации двусторонних отношений»,— прокомментировал в пятницу «Интерфаксу» события в Тбилиси замглавы МИД РФ Григорий Карасин. Происшедшее отбросило российско-грузинские отношения на несколько лет назад, заявила в эфире телеканала «Россия 24» экс-спикер парламента Грузии Нино Бурджанадзе.

Власти страны тем временем выступали с жесткими комментариями. Вначале президент Саломе Зурабишвили на своей странице в Facebook написала: «Россия — наш враг и оккупант. Управляемая ею пятая колонна, возможно, сегодня может быть более опасной, чем открытая агрессия». А позднее она выступила с видеообращением, в котором развила эту мысль. Госпожа Зурабишвили отметила: те, кто поощряют внутреннее противостояние в Грузии, поддерживают «российскую политику». «Единственная наша перспектива — в единстве. Только так мы можем ответить оккупации, только так мы можем показать миру достоинство Грузии»,— отметила она. При этом президент признала, что власти совершили ошибку, пригласив российских депутатов и не просчитав все риски. «В результате мы получили совершенно необоснованное проведение в Тбилиси сессии Межпарламентской ассамблеи православия, неприемлемый ее формат и российского депутата в кресле председателя нашего парламента»,— сказала она.

Премьер-министр Дмитрий Медведев, будучи в Минске, назвал эти заявления «крайне непрофессиональными», добавив: «Может быть, она (Саломе Зурабишвили.— “Ъ”) просто еще не вошла, что называется, в курс дела или сознательно искажает ситуацию». При этом он отметил: «В случае дальнейшего нагнетания антироссийской истерии наши люди просто туда (в Грузию.— “Ъ”) не поедут, мы дадим такие рекомендации». К вечеру соответствующие распоряжения были отданы и обнародованы.
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https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4006748?from=main_1#id1763718

https://www.ft.com/content/670039ec-98f3-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36

Vladimir Putin says liberalism has ‘become obsolete’
In an exclusive interview with the FT, the Russian president trumpets growth of national populism

Vladimir Putin has trumpeted the growth of national populist movements in Europe and America, crowing that liberalism is spent as an ideological force. In an FT interview in the Kremlin on the eve of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, the Russian president said “the liberal idea” had “outlived its purpose” as the public turned against immigration, open borders and multiculturalism.

Mr Putin’s evisceration of liberalism — the dominant western ideology since the end of the second world war in 1945 — chimes with anti-establishment leaders from US president Donald Trump to Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and the Brexit insurgency in the UK.

“[Liberals] cannot simply dictate anything to anyone just like they have been attempting to do over the recent decades,” he said.

Mr Putin branded Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to admit more than 1m refugees to Germany, mainly from war-ravaged Syria, as a “cardinal mistake”. But he praised Donald Trump for trying to stop the flow of migrants and drugs from Mexico.

“This liberal idea presupposes that nothing needs to be done. That migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants have to be protected.”

He added: “Every crime must have its punishment. The liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population.”

Donald Tusk, the European Council president, said he “strongly disagreed” with Mr Putin. “What I find really obsolete is authoritarianism, personality cults and the rule of oligarchs,” he said. As the de facto ruler of Russia for almost two decades, Mr Putin, 66, has been regularly accused of covertly supporting populist movements through financial aid and social media, notably in the 2016 US presidential election, the Brexit referendum and the recent European Parliament elections.

Mr Putin emphatically denied this. He dismissed the conclusion by special counsel Robert Mueller that Russia had systemically interfered in the 2016 US presidential election as “mythical interference”. Turning to the US-China trade war and geopolitical tensions in the Gulf between the US and Iran, Mr Putin said the situation had become “explosive”. The problem, he said, stemmed from American unilateralism and the lack of rules underpinning world order.

He expressed concern about the threat of a renewed nuclear arms race between the US and Russia. “The cold war was a bad thing . . . but there were at least some rules that all participants in international communication more or less adhered to or tried to follow. Now, it seems that there are no rules at all,” he said.

On a positive note, Mr Putin said there were tentative signs of a thaw in Anglo-Russian relations ahead of his meeting in Osaka with Theresa May, her farewell summit as UK prime minister.“ I think Russia and UK are both interested in fully restoring our relations, at least I hope a few preliminary steps will be made.”Relations between London and Moscow have been frozen after the attempted assassination of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England.

The UK government blames the Russian government for the nerve agent attack, but Mr Putin said there was no evidence to support this. Mr Skripal had served a sentence in Russia before being released in a spy swap with the UK, he noted.Mr Putin made clear, however, that he had zero tolerance for spies who betrayed their country. “Treason is the gravest crime possible and traitors must be punished. I am not saying that the Salisbury incident is the way to do it . . . but traitors must be punished.”Theresa May, the UK prime minister, said she will demand the suspects in the attack are extradited and “brought to justice” when she sees Mr Putin on Friday — their first face-to-face meeting since the incident.

“We would be open to a different relationship with Russia but if that is going to happen then Russia needs to stop its activity that undermines international treaties and undermines our collective security like what happened on the streets of Salisbury,” she told journalists en route to Osaka. In recent years, Mr Putin has become emboldened, presiding over the annexation of Crimea, a pro-Russian revolt in eastern Ukraine and a military intervention in Syria which he described as a clear-cut success.Apart from killing thousands of radical Islamists and shoring up President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Mr Putin said the exercise had given Russia’s armed forces invaluable fighting experience.

He made no mention of the fact the seven-year-old war has resulted in more than 5m refugees and 500,000 dead. However, he did point to the waves of immigration from conflict zones in Africa and the Middle East which had fostered crime and social strains, in turn fuelling an anti-establishment backlash in Europe.

Echoing nationalist populists such as Mr Salvini and France’s Marine Le Pen, Mr Putin said liberal governments had not acted to reassure citizens. Instead they had pursued a mindless multiculturalism embracing, among other things, sexual diversity.“I am not trying to insult anyone because we have been condemned for our alleged homophobia. But we have no problem with LGBT persons. God forbid, let them live as they wish,” he said. “But some things do appear excessive to us. They claim now that children can play five or six gender roles.”“Let everyone be happy, we have no problem with that,” he added. “But this must not be allowed to overshadow the culture, traditions and traditional family values of millions of people making up the core population.”

At #G20 summit in #Osaka, #Japan, #Russia’s President #Putin was seen drinking from his own protected cup - while other world leaders drank from glasses provided by the hosts.

Is Putin afraid of being poisoned?... pic.twitter.com/HTbOhrYeoH

— Alex Kokcharov (@AlexKokcharov) June 28, 2019

Kako piše "Gardijan", prošle nedelje, maska je pala, a njihov tekst prenosimo u celosti.
"Svet je video pravog Putina, a slika je bila ružna. Ima nečeg podmuklog u njemu, neke uskogrudosti, uzrokovane strahom i gnevom. Hladni rat i obuka u KGB izopačili su njegov pogled na svet, koji je ogorčen i defanzivan. U njemu nema ničeg pozitivnog. Putin je prazan prostor, na kome bi trebalo da se nalaze vođstvo i moralni uzor.

Zašto bi onda nekoga uopšte interesovalo šta misli? Njegove izjave, u kojima proglašava zapadni liberalizam 'prevaziđenim', namerno provociraju. Njegovi zapaljivi komentari o imigraciji i multikulturalizmu, njegova loše maskirana homofobija i jezivo obećanje da će kažnjavati 'izdajnike' (a u vezi s prošlogodišnjim trovanjem Sergeja i Julije Skripalj u Solzberiju, a za koje su odgovorni ruski agenti) već su poznate taktike, primenjivane sa ciljem da se izazovu podele i nemir. Zašto protestovati protiv očiglednog podbadanja, kada bi sigurno bilo lakše ignorisati ga? Zapadni lideri smatraju da je to nemoguće delom zato što strepe da je Putin u pravu. Kada tvrdi da se reakcionarne nacionalističke i populističke snage jačaju širom sveta, da posleratni demokratski konsenzus više ne može da se održi i da je 'liberalna ideja u sukobu s interesima ogromne većine stanovništva', oni strepe da u tome postoji zrnce istine. To je istinski preteća, subverzivna strana putinizma, koji inficira globalnu politiku.
Putinizam ima saveznika u Donaldu Trampu, koji je na Samitu G20 u Osaki pozdravio ruskog predsednika kao uvaženog prijatelja. Zajednički su im sklonost ka autoritarnom upravljanju putem dekreta, netolerancija prema demokratskim, zakonskim i parlamentarnim ograničenjima i krut pogled na svet, koji dele nacije, novac i brutalna sila.Putin je hvalio Trampov loš odnos prema migrantima, koji, kako je rekao, 'nekažnjeno ubijaju, pljačkaju i siluju'. Tramp se nacerio, napravio šalu na račun Putinovog nezakonitog mešanja u američke izbore 2016. i rekao koliko bi bilo zabavno 'otarasiti se' novinara. Putin zapravo već 20 godina sa smrtonosnom efikasnošću sprovodi tu ideju.

Putinizam se probija u zemljama kao što su Saudijska Arabija, Turska, Brazil, Filipini, Sudan i Egipat. 'Moćnici' uglavnom centralizuju vlast, kupuju, zatvaraju, ili eliminišu protivnike, ućutkavaju medije, lažu javnost, a onda rade šta im je volja.
Si Đinpingova Kina samo je varijacija na temu. Mađarski premijer Viktor Orban jedan je od evropskih imitatora. Glavna, zastrašujuća, poruka takvih lidera jeste da narodu i naciji preti više spoljnih sila i da samo oni mogu da ih zaštite.
Takvu distopiju proizrokovalo je Putinovo razmetanje. To je alternativa, košmarni svet čiji je on predstavnik, u kome demokratski konsenzus više nije bitan, gde su prava pojedinca prezrena, gde se rodna i rasna različitost kažnjava, gde sudovi i sudije više nisu neutralni, gde listovi štampaju ono što ime se naredi, gde se tolerancija i saosećanje smatraju slabostima i gde se ignoriše međunarodno pravo, koje reguliše međudržavne odnose. To je svet u kome važi pravilo “pojedi da ne budeš pojeden” i u kome su bezosećajni ljudi poput Putina i Trampa su glavni predatori.
Pretnja sa desnice je očigledna. Ali oni na levici, koji pravdaju Putinovu Rusiju, trebalo bi da dobro i kritički pogledaju sebe. Saradnja s raznim licima modernog fašizma uvek je odvratna. Slabosti demokratije i nesavršenstvo institucija, kao što je EU, ni približno ne mogu da opravdaju njihovo rušenje i klevetanje.Upoznajte neprijatelja - to je pouka Evrope tridesetih godina koja je danas i te kako primenljiva. Glavne liberalne vrednosti i uverenja zaslužuju da se za njih borimo u ovom trenutku, baš kao i u vreme velikih sukoba dvadesetog veka. Na nama je da branimo zaostavštinu svetskog poretka zasnovanog na konsenzusu i zakonima, da je razvijamo i projektujemo, a ne da se nemarno prepustimo demagozima nove nacionalističko-populističke mijazme. Kako je rekao predsednik Evropskog saveta Donald Tusk, autoritarnost, kult ličnosti, vladavina oligarha zaista su prevaziđeni.
Bojažljivo samoposmatranje, koje je inicirao Putin, ne bi smelo da pomuti jasan pogled na Rusiju kakvu je on stvorio. Putin je došao na vlast 1999-2000, zahvaljujući surovom sukobu na Kavkazu i od tada vodi nepravedne ratove u Gruziji, Ukrajini i Siriji. Za vreme Putinove vlasti u Rusiji de facto vladaju jednopartijska vlast, korupcija sistema, ugnjetavanje građanskih prava, cenzura i ubistva u mafijaškom stilu, koja redovno prolaze nekažnjeno.