Podcasts about Vladislav Surkov

Edition No118 | 27-03-2025 - Surkov is a useful path to understanding the perverse and contradictory heart of contemporary Russia. Exploring a recent interview Vladislav Surkov conducted with L'Express reveals a secretive, complicated and controversial man. He is known as Putin's Rasputin, the Grey Cardinal of the Kremlin or the Puppet Master. Sourkov is the shadowy adviser who inspired novelist Giuliano da Empoli to write The Wizard of the Kremlin. He can be considered the 'architect' of the Russian political system but who has distanced himself from the man he served for two decades, Vladimir Putin. No one knows what Sourkov is doing today. In the L'Express interview he avoided the question. 1. He is one of the architects of the post-truth worldLong before Donald Trump weaponized the term ‘fake news', Surkov was honing his art. Today, Moscow is using Surkov's techniques to sow political confusion in democracies throughout the western world. A former associate said: “That's a fashion created and nourished by Surkov: this flavour of post-modernism. Nothing is true. There is no truth. There are alternative truths.”2. He rose from nowhere to become the power behind the throne in Putin's RussiaHe invented 'Sovereign Democracy', a system in which the illusion of democratic choice only had one outcome: the continuation of Putin's rule. One former colleague said of him: Vladimir Putin owes much of his success to Surkov's machinations.“At the ends of his fingers he controlled the threads of so many political structures. Those structures were so complicated that only Surkov knew where everything was: the opposition, the political parties, MPs, the governors, the creation or closing of political movements or NGOs, the church, the media, civil society...” ----------LINKS:https://www.lexpress.fr/monde/europe/exclusive-vladislav-sourkov-the-kremlins-wizard-russia-will-expand-in-all-directions-as-far-as-god-WWIE5OJMPVHJ5KTTAHNLE4WPME/?cmp_redirect?cmp_redirect=truehttps://www.ft.com/content/1324acbb-f475-47ab-a914-4a96a9d14bachttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39342784-almost-zero----------Easter Pysanky: Silicon Curtain - https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/easter-pysanky-silicon-curtainCar for Ukraine has joined forces with a group of influencers, creators, and news observers during this special Easter season. In peaceful times, we might gift a basket of pysanky (hand-painted eggs), but now, we aim to deliver a basket of trucks to our warriors.This time, our main focus is on the Seraphims of the 104th Brigade and Chimera of HUR (Main Directorate of Intelligence), highly effective units that: - disrupt enemy logistics - detect and strike command centers - carry out precision operations against high-value enemy targetshttps://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/easter-pysanky-silicon-curtain----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SILICON CURTAIN LIVE EVENTS - FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN Events in 2025 - Advocacy for a Ukrainian victory with Silicon Curtainhttps://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extrasOur first live events this year in Lviv and Kyiv were a huge success. Now we need to maintain this momentum, and change the tide towards a Ukrainian victory. The Silicon Curtain Roadshow is an ambitious campaign to run a minimum of 12 events in 2025, and potentially many more. We may add more venues to the program, depending on the success of the fundraising campaign. https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------

Jména Vladislav Surkov a Alexandr Dugin znají převážně experti na současné Rusko. Přestože nemá momentálně ani jeden z nich oficiální funkci v mocenských strukturách, vývoj událostí se dostal do okamžiku, kdy ruské špičky v zásadě uplatňují mnohé Duginovy představy, a to na fundamentu svého času vybudovaném Surkovem.

Jména Vladislav Surkov a Alexandr Dugin znají převážně experti na současné Rusko. Přestože nemá momentálně ani jeden z nich oficiální funkci v mocenských strukturách, vývoj událostí se dostal do okamžiku, kdy ruské špičky v zásadě uplatňují mnohé Duginovy představy, a to na fundamentu svého času vybudovaném Surkovem.Všechny díly podcastu Názory a argumenty můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

In this most curious and wondrous Episode, the esteemed Hosts are pleased to engage in Discourse with none other than Mr. Mitch Anzuoni, Founder and Impresario of the singular Inpatient Press. Within this august Conversation, there shall be much Deliberation on the impending Cinematic Enterprise, "Gangstalking: The Movie", wherein grand Schemes of a most Intriguing Nature shall be unveiled. Amongst the other Topics discussed, Mr. Anzuoni will discourse at length upon the enigmatic Figure of Vladislav Surkov, whose mysterious Influence shall be weighed with solemn Reverence. Furthermore, the Hosts, in Company with their Honoured Guest, shall treat of Books, conceived not merely as Volumes of Prose, but as Grimoires, repositories of secret and arcane Knowledge. In Addition, this spirited Conversation shall also explore the exciting Potential of imprisoning Artists within Labyrinths, a Practice deemed both necessary and, verily, thrilling; the notion of curating an Alex Grey Exhibition in the heart of downtown Manhattan, which would surely provoke Wonder and Awe; and, most curiously, the pressing need for an alternate Sovereign House, a haven for the Avant-garde, funded by none other than the esteemed Chinese Communist Party.

Writer David Shields joins Geoff Shullenberger to discuss his new book and documentary How We Got Here. We ask whether postmodernists are to blame for our post-truth predicament and explore Trump's instinctive postmodernism, the propaganda techniques of Putin adviser Vladislav Surkov, and David's own theories on reality and (non-)fiction.Listen either here on Substack or on your preferred podcast app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit compactmag.substack.com/subscribe

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The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/03/its-always-possible-to-embody-truth.htmlPlease feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/ Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass) Thanks for listening. Just to note that all the texts of these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find there a brief biography, info about my career as a musician, & some photography. Feel free to drop by & say hello. Email: caute.brown[at]gmail.com

Giuliano Da Empoli har den særlige evne til både at have en forståelse for idéernes verden og en forståelse for, hvordan magten i praksis fungerer. Denne evne har han blandt andet haft stor succes med at omsætte til den storsælgende roman Troldmanden fra Kreml, som han udkom med kort før Ruslands invasion af Ukraine. Bogen foregår i nutidens Rusland under Vladimir Putin, hvor vi følger den politiske rådgiver for Putin, Vadim Baranov, der repræsenterer en tillempet version Vladimir Putins rigtige politiske rådgiver Vladislav Surkov. I denne udgave af Langsomme Samtaler taler Rune Lykkeberg med den italiensk-franske forfatter og professor om bogen, hvordan magtudøvelse i Rusland både er universel og specifik, og hvorfor Da Empoli også med sin bog ønsker at rejse en kritik af Europas betragtning af sig selv som politisk model for resten af verdenen.   

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O radiografie a puterii rusești, așa cum este ea construită pe baza unei mentalități care funcționează acolo de secole, face Giuliano da Empoli în romanul său „Magul de la Kremlin”, apărut, în traducerea lui Bogdan Ghiu, la Editura Humanitas Fiction. Autorul vine din zona analizei politice, a literaturii de idei, a fost consilierul premierului italian Matteo Renzi, predă științe politice la Paris și pentru această carte, cu care debutează în ficțiune, a primit Marele Premiu pentru Roman al Academiei Franceze. Giuliano da Empoli face aici pe de-o parte portretul celui care a contribuit decisiv la ascensiunea lui Vladimir Putin la vîrful puterii în Rusia (Vadim Baranov, al cărui prototip este Vladislav Surkov, considerat „Rasputin al lui Putin”), pe de altă parte face chiar portretul lui Putin, Țarul, cum e numit în carte. Asistăm astfel la o demascare ficțională a mecanismelor puterii, o dezvrăjire dar, paradoxal, cu un periculos potențial de a crea fascinație. Am vorbit cu traducătorul Bogdan Ghiu despre arta narativă a lui Giuliano da Empoli, frazele sale memorabile, personajele extrem de bine conturate și despre puterea literaturii de a pune lumina ficțiunii pe realitatea înconjurătoare și de a formula avertismente.  O emisiune de Adela Greceanu  Un produs Radio România Cultural  

In 2016, Ukrainian hackers leaked thousands of emails belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin's right hand man, Vladislav Surkov. They provided a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Kremlin and fresh insight into the invasion in Ukraine. Rachel Naylor speaks to Alya Shandra, the journalist who read them all. (Photo: Vladislav Surkov in 2008. Credit: DMITRY ASTAKHOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Giuliano da Empoli, consigliere politico ed esperto di strategie elettorali, esordisce come romanziere con il libro “Il mago del Cremlino”.Il romanzo, già pubblicato in Francia da Gallimard, approda in Italia con la casa editrice Mondadori.Il protagonista è Vadim Baranov, ispirato all'ex consigliere di Putin, Vladislav Surkov. Attraverso le vicende dello spin doctor del Cremlino, si ricostruiscono le tappe e le persone che hanno accompagnato la trasformazione di Putin da funzionario del Kgb allo zar di oggi.Baranov è un personaggio sui generis nell'entourage di Putin: da produttore di reality show diventa l'artefice del teatro del potere. Il romanzo mescola realtà e letteratura per raccontare la Russia contemporanea. Il filo conduttore sono i libri e la letteratura, chiavi per comprendere la realtà.L'autore del “Il mago del Cremlino” ha spiegato a Stefano Feltri, direttore di Domani, che il ruolo dello spin doctor è percepito in modo ambivalente, «allo stesso tempo confortevole, perché non ci si sobbarca le fatiche della lotta e dell'ascesa, e frustrante, perché le persone ti attribuiscono più influenza di quanta ne abbia».Giuliano da Empoli parla di studi condotti da neuroscienziati che dimostrano gli effetti che il potere ha sul cervello umano: mancanza di empatia ed estremizzazione delle situazioni. Caratteristiche che delineano la personalità di Putin, influiscono sulla sua carriera e sono presenti nel romanzo come tratti che lo distinguono ancora oggi.Mentre gli esperti di geopolitica sono impegnati a capire la prossima mossa di Putin, da Empoli ha anticipato i tempi spiegando le strategie sottese al potere.Consigli di lettura:“La geopolitica di Putin nella grande letteratura russa” di Raffaele Alberto Ventura“Le magie del Cremlino nel conflitto tra letteratura e politica” di Aurèlie Filippetti (Domani, 10 luglio 2022)Pensieri? Opinioni? Suggerimenti?Scrivi a lettori@editorialedomani.it

That the fraudulent, media-hyped Russiagate fiasco was a colossal waste of civic energy is now beyond doubt to all but the most bitterly partisan.  But scant attention has been paid to its enablement of the tragic Russian invasion of Ukraine.  The premise of “Russian collusion” was that Vladimir Putin was assisting Donald Trump in defeating Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.  Even though collusion was never proven, the conclusion is still being bruited about that Putin wished Trump to win.  If, to the contrary, Putin was in fact actively seeking to defeat Trump, this attempt may provide insight into the whys and wherefores of his Ukraine invasion.  To be sure, the trivial and ineffective Russian bot farm postings were laughable and likely done for private profit, not geopolitical effect.  But whatever the motivation, they were admittedly inconsequential.  But what did move the needle in our domestic politics was the Russiagate scandal itself, interfering with Trump's agenda while magnifying his contentious style, perhaps causing enough marginal diminution in his support to affect the 2020 U.S. election outcome. So, yes, the Clinton campaign may have unwittingly caused the election of Joe Biden in 2020.  But was this collusion hoax solely the action of Clinton and her domestic supporters in the media and government?  More to the point, was Vladimir Putin a willing ally of Clinton in this fabrication? Let's examine the evidence. Prior to 2016, Clinton had been nothing but a seemingly corrupt and compromised patsy of Putin, a fact ignored by the media.  One of the first acts of President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton was to unilaterally, without quid pro quo, remove military installations in Poland and the Czech Republic pointing sophisticated defensive missiles toward Russia.  This technology could have been used as an effective deterrent or a weapon in defense of Ukraine. Clinton also encouraged, as part of the “Russian Reset,” the transfer of dual-use technology to the “Russian Silicon Valley” at Skolkovo, over the objection of the U.S. Defense Department, enriching Clinton Foundation supporters in both Russia and America.  Then, when Clinton's State Department held the sole “equity” vote, it approved the sale of Uranium One,  quickly transferred to Putin's Rosatom.  Now Putin had enhanced military power as well as uranium pricing power, including to America's nuclear power industry.  The financial beneficiaries of the Uranium One deal contributed $150-350 million to the Clinton Foundation, which housed many of her campaign staff.  Eleven Russian intelligence agents hovering around the Uranium One deal were arrested and sent back quickly to Russia, without any attempts to cajole the inside story of a seemingly corrupt transaction.  Clinton's heirs then pushed the destabilizing Iran Nuclear Deal, with Russia the major nuclear contractor for Iran, using Russia as an intermediary for the negotiations.  Of course, this same State Department approved of Putin's march across Ukraine to take over Crimea in 2014, with our government providing only non-lethal assistance such as blankets and MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) in support of Ukraine.   And let us also not forget that in 2010, Clinton's State Department encouraged and facilitated Ukraine's surrendering of over 1.1 million light arms and shoulder-fired missile launchers in exchange for vaguely worded security assurances.  So, when the 2016 U.S. presidential election came around, would any rational person believe that Putin wished Trump to defeat the highly compromised and highly compromisable Clinton?  But what evidence is there that Putin sought to help Clinton and defeat Trump?     Hired by the Clinton campaign through Fusion GPS, ex-spy Christopher Steele (author of the infamous Steele Dossier) had as a longstanding client Oleg Deripaska, Putin's close friend and aluminum oligarch.  For years, Steele's Orbis Business Intelligence had touted Deripaska as a “good oligarch” in over 100 intelligence reports to U.S. government agencies.  In 2016, Steele was hired by Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS to perform lucrative work for Prevezon Holdings, a Russian company owned by the family of oligarch Denis Katsyv.  Prevezon was fighting a U.S. court seizure of $230 million taken by the American government under the Magnitsky Act, an anti-Putin law caused by the killing of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.  Who did Steele hire as his primary subsource to prepare his Dossier?  One Igor Danchenko, suspected and never exonerated as a Russian spy. Danchenko received a crucial piece of his false narrative from close, longtime Clinton ally, Charles Dolan, connected to him through seeming Russian intelligence asset Olga Galkina.  But was Dolan also a Russian agent?  Yes, he was a publicly disclosed Russian PR agent whom the Washington Postreportedhad the trust and respect of Putin's inner circle.  While Danchenko hid Dolan's involvement, Dolan at the time of the Dossier was actively working with Russian Embassy officials (read: intelligence agents).  Steele also informed the State Department that he used as his sources Vyacheslav Trubnikov, the former Director of Russian intelligence service SVR, and Vladislav Surkov, “Putin's Rasputin,” working closely with Putin in the Kremlin.  Were these Russian agents working against Putin's wishes in exposing a Putin-Trump conspiracy?  If they were doing so, wouldn't their faces soon be found in their cereal bowls?  So, it seems obvious that, completely contrary to the cartoonish narrative adopted by the media, this Russian collusion story was actively assisted by Vladimir Putin, and that there was indeed collusion … between Putin and Clinton. Recall that as of July 28, 2016, John Brennan's CIA had already gained Russian intelligence showing that Clinton's foreign policy advisor, Jake Sullivan, had been the author of the hoax, and revealing that Russia was up to the minute on it.  What was Putin's motive in assisting Clinton by allowing his close allies to participate in the hoax?  There is no reason to believe but that in 2016 Putin wished to make Ukraine a vassal state.  He knew then that Clinton would likely willingly play ball, and in any case could be so compelled by strong kompromat.  While in office barely three months, Trump lobbed missiles into the joint Syrian-Russian Shayrat airbase in retaliation for use of chemical weapons.  He also ordered a successful drone strike against Iran (Russian ally) General Qassim Soleimani, seemingly planning terrorist action.  During Trump's term, Putin did not even feint at full-scale invasion of Ukraine.  But, as soon as Joe Biden was elected, Putin amassed troops on the Ukraine border.  Meanwhile, Biden, through National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the author of the Russiagate fabrication, sought Russian and Iranian oil to backstop dwindling American fossil fuel production, while seeking Russian aid to restart the Iranian nuclear talks. Almost immediately, Biden and Sullivan paused a large package of lethal American weapons aid to Ukraine, later halting the transfer to Ukraine of MIGs from Poland, while doing nothing to rattle sabers at Putin in advance of the invasion.  Indeed, Biden seemed to be offering Putin an engraved invitation, assuring him that America would not take action in Ukraine's defense. In short, Putin did not suddenly, in early 2021, begin to wish a Ukraine invasion.  Even though he did not successfully help Clinton get elected in 2016, because of his support of the Russiagate deceit Putin got an even weaker United States President in Biden. So, the Russiagate canard had far more than domestic partisan effect, as wished by Clinton, American intelligence agencies and the partisan media.  Our nation's global security, and that of our allies, as well as food and energy security, have all been catastrophically impacted by a media hungry to accept uncritically any leftist partisan narrative, no matter how obviously fabricated.    This media malpractice has harmed our country profoundly.  Will there be any media self-reflection, or at least criticism of Clinton and Biden for their longstanding weakness toward Russia?  Don't count on it.

L'un des artisans de la propagande en Russie, conseiller spécial de Vladimir Poutine durant vingt ans, a été placé en résidence surveillée à Moscou. Pour « La Story », le podcast d'actualité des « Echos », Pierrick Fay et ses invités reviennent sur le parcours de Vladislav Surkov, un homme aux zones d'ombre multiples tombé en disgrâce soudaine.La Story est un podcast des « Echos » présenté par Pierrick Fay. Cet épisode a été enregistré en avril 2022. Rédaction en chef : Clémence Lemaistre. Invités : Anna Zielinska (maîtresse de conférence en Philosophie à l'Université de Lorraine) et Pierre de Gasquet (grand reporter aux « Echos »). Réalisation : Willy Ganne. Chargée de production et d'édition : Michèle Warnet. Musique : Théo Boulenger. Identité graphique : Upian. Photo : Alexei Nikolsky/AP/SIPA. Sons : Boney M. « Rasputin », « Spin City » (1996), Agata Christie « Miracles » (1998), Musique du Monde, Agatha Christie « Comme en guerre » (1993), Vadim Samoilov « Tu as vidé mes rivières ». Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

In an episode dedicated to recreating for posterity the good half of an old installment that has since gone missing, the Gaming Hut looks at campaigns where most of the PCs are sidekicks to a superior hero. In the Tradecraft Hut we examine the career of former Putin aide Vladislav Surkov, the so-called Gray Cardinal […]

La situazione militare. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-11 https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-47-summary/ http://www.dupuyinstitute.org/blog/2022/04/11/the-russo-ukrainian-war-of-2022-day-47-ground-actions/ - Nord - Kharkiv: forze Ucraine riprendono Zolochiv (nord-ovest di Kharkiv) - Est - Luhanks: nessun cambiamento sul fronte. - Sud-Est - Donetsk: nessun cambiamento sul fronte. - Sud - Kherson: nessun cambiamento sul fronte. Interessante thread di Phillis O'Brien sulle perdite russe che stima a 20-30% delle forze dispiegate. https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1513589956601602050 Stime simile da parte di Shashank Joshi (Defense Editor dell'Economist) https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1513536092913479690 Massacri di civili Bucha: Dettagliata ricostruzione del New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/11/world/europe/bucha-terror.html?referringSource=articleShare Buzovaya (ovest di Kyiv): trovata un altra fossa comune con i corpi di almeno 50 civili https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1513129818010931202 Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/11/investing/russia-default-sp/index.html Accordo Eni-Sonatrach per l'aumento delle esportazioni di gas dall'Algeria verso l'Italia. Volumi crescenti di gas a partire dal 2022, fino a 9 miliardi di metri cubi di gas all'anno nel 2023-24" https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/algerias-sonatrach-italys-eni-sign-gas-deal-sonatrach-statement-2022-04-11/ https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2022/04/mario-draghi-oggi-siglato-accordo-eni-sonatrach-per-aumento-esportazioni-di-gas-verso-litalia-5b55a156-611b-45ae-abd3-4f17382ad24f.html Sweden and Finland make moves to join Nato. Public support for Nato membership has almost doubled since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to about 50% in Sweden and 60% in Finland, multiple opinion polls suggest. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/11/sweden-and-finland-make-moves-to-join-nato Reazione Russa: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61066503 Aiuti Militari all'Ucraina: 100 tanks T-72 dalla Polonia. Altri T-72 in arrivo da Rep. Ceca https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/defence-notes/ukraine-receives-triple-arms-transfer-boost/ 120 veicoli corazzati in arrivo da UK https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/08/britain-send-armoured-vehicles-bolster-ukraines-fightback-against/ Possibile invio di 50 tank Leopard 1 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/rheinmetall-ready-supply-up-50-tanks-ukraine-newspaper-2022-04-11/ https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/45170/ukraine-situation-report-leopard-tanks-could-arrive-in-six-weeks-with-germanys-approval In un discorso al Parlamento Coreano: Zelenskyy ha chiesto l'invio di più armi https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-says-tens-thousands-killed-mariupol-seeks-military-aid-skorea-2022-04-11/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily-briefing Purga FSB Bellingcat e il Times riportano una purga all'interno dell'FSB con almeno 150 tra rimossi ed arrestati. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-purges-150-fsb-agents-in-response-to-russias-botched-war-with-ukraine-lf9k6tn6g?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1649702327-1 Sergei Beseda, capo della 5a Sezione e incaricato di raccogliere intelligence sull'Ucraina sarebbe ora in carcere dopo giorni di arresti domiciliari https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/11/why-is-a-russian-intelligence-general-in-moscow-lefortovo-prison-a77301 Agli arresti sarebbe anche Vladislav Surkov ex consigliere di Putin https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1513550691821834249

Dans cette nouvelle édition de Grand Continent, en partenariat avec la revue de géopolitique Le Grand Continent, notre invité Guillaume Lancereau, docteur en histoire, réagit à l'article : « Cent ans de solitude géopolitique » publié sur le Grand Continent. Il revient sur l'idéologie de Vladislav Surkov, ancien bras-droit de Vladimir Poutine.

Tháng 11/2021, Vladislav Surkov, nhà tư tưởng trung thành của Putin, đã chuyển sự chú ý sang câu hỏi về đế chế. “Nhà nước Nga, với tình hình nội tại nghiêm trọng và không linh hoạt, chỉ có thể tồn tại được nhờ sự mở rộng không mệt mỏi ra ngoài biên giới. Từ lâu, nó đã không còn biết cách làm thế nào để có thể tồn tại nếu không phải là một đế chế.” Ông lập luận, cách duy nhất để Nga có thể thoát khỏi sự hỗn loạn là xuất khẩu nó sang một quốc gia láng giềng. Nhưng điều ông không nói ra là, việc Putin xuất khẩu hỗn loạn và bạo lực để phục vụ mục đích ấy đã làm đứt gãy mối quan hệ giữa các quốc gia và các dân tộc Slavơ theo cách mà ngay cả sự sụp đổ của đế chế Xô-viết cũng không tạo ra. Xem thêm: http://nghiencuuquocte.org/2022/02/11/ly-do-nga-khong-bao-gio-chap-nhan-nen-doc-lap-cua-ukraine-p3

Dan Faggella is Founder and Head of Research at Emerj and advises the UN, Interpol and global enterprises on Artificial Intelligence. He is also a former MMA coach and fighter. In this conversation we discuss: Lotus eaters and world eaters; digital dominance and tools for today's Napoleons; advertising and future online business models; virtual reality and novel experience; political struggle in digital space and the battle for the computational substrate; the permeability of the Western online ecosystem compared with China's; how physical power interacts with digital power; noomachia, Russia and disinformation; industry and solidarity as foundations for political and economic prowess; Vladislav Surkov's short story "without sky"; societal values and survival. Support Technosocial https://www.patreon.com/technosocial Music by Salvatore Schiano http://www.salvatoreschiano.com/ Also on https://anchor.fm/technosocial Find Dan here: https://danfaggella.com/ https://emerj.com/

In this podcast, Mike and Josh talk about the enigmatic figure Vladislav Surkov, a man whose influence has helped Vladimir Putin cement his power, and who has overseen Russian policies in Ukraine. The post Vladislav Surkov and the politics of chaos appeared first on In The Zone.

Political technologist and right hand man to Putin. Experimental theater director. Architect of the age of disinformation. Playing all sides against all... in a non-linear war. Or is he? A wonderful and terrifying deep dive into Russian media and the Kremlin power structure. ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Merch: merch.qanonanonymous.com Music by Nick Sena (www.nicksenamusic.com) /// SOURCES: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21413849-nothing-is-true-and-everything-is-possible https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/hypernormalisation-2016/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39342784-almost-zero https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/01/22/the-literary-intrigues-of-putins-puppet-master/ https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n20/peter-pomerantsev/putin-s-rasputin https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/march/non-linear-war https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-russia-kremlin-vladislav-surkov-grey-cardinal-moscow-a8773661.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51553732

From today — that’s Thursday the 20th of February — most Chinese citizens will be temporarily blocked from entering Russia as part of Moscow’s latest moves to contain the spread of coronavirus. The ban covers all Chinese citizens traveling to Russia on employment, tourist and student visas. On the line to discuss Russia’s latest moves to stop the coronavirus spread is Alexander Gabuev chair of the Asia-Pacific program at Carnegie Moscow Centre. And later. Vladimir Putin fired his long-time advisor Vladislav Surkov this week — the Kremlin’s so-called “grey cardinal” who was, until a few weeks ago, Russia’s chief negotiator over the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. On the phone to explain a bit about the man behind the reputation and explore whether Surkov leaving the Kremlin will mean anything for Russia-Ukrainian relations, Mark Galeotti of Honorary Professor at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies and author of ‘We Need to Talk about Putin’. From Russia With News is hosted by Jake Cordell and produced by Pjotr Sauer. The episode was recorded and edited at CM Records Studio in central Moscow.

Constitutional amendments proposed by President Vladimir Putin are being pushed through fast, and longtime presidential aide Vladislav Surkov, the so-called Gray Cardinal, is said to be leaving the Kremlin. RFE/RL senior correspondent Robert Coalson joins host Steve Gutterman to take stock of what we know and what we don't know -- and what it means.

Trump, Brexit, the far left, the far right, Russia is often accused of interfering with Western democracy. But one Tupac-loving PR guy went beyond politics and masterminded the disruption of an entire global political system. The BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse introduces us to Vladislav Surkov, the most powerful man you’ve never heard of. This episode contains strong language.

Is it all getting too much for the hero – or is he the villain of our series? His name is Vladislav Surkov and his enemies are circling. Gabriel Gatehouse continues the story of the most powerful man you've never heard of.

The story of Vladislav Surkov, the most powerful man you’ve never heard of, continues. His background is in theatre and PR, but his profession is politics. And in this episode, Gabriel Gatehouse tells the story of how it all comes together in a bold statement of Surkov's power and confidence.

This is the story of the most powerful man you’ve never heard of. He can spot an ex-spy with presidential potential and help turn him into a world leader. He creates opposition movements out of thin air. He’s got a nation’s news directors on speed dial. Billionaires seek his advice. He’s even got his own little war. He’s at the heart of the standoff between East and West. Some even credit him with pioneering the concept of post-truth politics. Yet few even know his name. He is Vladislav Surkov. And in this episode, Gabriel Gatehouse charts his rise from small-town Russia to the heights of power in the Kremlin.

The Puppet Master is a series that gets to the bewildering heart of contemporary Russia by exploring the fortunes of a secretive, complicated and controversial man called Vladislav Surkov. Reporter Gabriel Gatehouse speaks fluent Russian and has access to a vast cache of leaked emails from Surkov’s Kremlin office. Using these, plus archive and sources gained over a decade of covering Russia and its wars, Gatehouse goes in search of the man pulling the strings. The journey is by turns dramatic, surprising and surreal, ranging from the battlefield to the theatre and the Kremlin itself. The destination? The post-truth world we inhabit today.

Effigies, aliases, and a 'golden cage': it all comes down to this in the series finale about Vladislav Surkov, the most powerful man you’ve never heard of. Presented by Gabriel Gatehouse.

Popularly referred to as the puppet master and the shadowy man, Vladislav Surkov is back on the public stage with a manifesto on what he happily refers to as Putin's Russia. We break down the ideas he introduces in his latest article and trace how the man himself, specifically in the West, came to be known as the mastermind behind modern Russian politics.

Antony Rotunno joins us again for the second part of our wide-ranging conversation on the 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis. Borrowing the word "hypernormalisation" from a book by ex-Soviet citizen Alexei Yurchak, in whose writing it described an officially-encouraged delusional state of mind in the gradually-collapsing Soviet Union, Adam Curtis creatively applies the term to the West since the last quarter of the 20th Century; a time in which, he argues, both politicians and citizens have "retreated" from hard problems in favour of "fake" versions of reality, while the banking and technological elites have continued to fill the vacuum with their technocratic systems of "stability" and "control". While we remain unpersuaded by elements of Curtis's overall narrative and gently critical of his somewhat pretentious style, we nevertheless find the documentary rich with fascinating subjects, and share our own perspectives in a relaxed and fairly unstructured way. Note: If you haven't listened to part one of this conversation, please do so first, otherwise you may find it difficult to follow. Music courtesy of Dissident Prophet (https://dissidentprophet.bandcamp.com/) For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com

Antony Rotunno joins us again for the second part of our wide-ranging conversation on the 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis. Borrowing the word "hypernormalisation" from a book by ex-Soviet citizen Alexei Yurchak, in whose writing it described an officially-encouraged delusional state of mind in the gradually-collapsing Soviet Union, Adam Curtis creatively applies the term to the West since the last quarter of the 20th Century; a time in which, he argues, both politicians and citizens have "retreated" from hard problems in favour of "fake" versions of reality, while the banking and technological elites have continued to fill the vacuum with their technocratic systems of "stability" and "control". While we remain unpersuaded by elements of Curtis's overall narrative and gently critical of his somewhat pretentious style, we nevertheless find the documentary rich with fascinating subjects, and share our own perspectives in a relaxed and fairly unstructured way. Note: If you haven't listened to part one of this conversation, please do so first, otherwise you may find it difficult to follow. Music courtesy of Dissident Prophet (https://dissidentprophet.bandcamp.com/) For show notes please visit http://themindrenewed.com

Joined on this one by Nathan Bernard, who tells us about founding Bernard Media, working with Vic Berger & Tim Heidecker, being doxxed Gavin McGuiness & his Proud Boys, smeared by Mike Cernovich, and bitched at by Ben Shapiro. We talk about Vladislav Surkov and our age of post-information, comedy in the age of whatever you want to call this hell, and probably you, buddy.

'De-Communisation' has become a central plank of government policy since 'Euromaidan' - the second revolution in Ukraine after independence from the USSR in 1991. Determination to erase not just the Soviet past but any possibility of left-wing radicalism is the one thing that unites the country's two largest political forces: one that represents European Union-facing neoliberalism, the other, violent Ukrainian nationalism. Often censored - or worse - during the 20th century, post-Soviet artists with socialist, feminist and/or utopian ideals have found themselves facing new forms of exclusion and oppression. How have they located themselves within the new cultural and political landscape? In this episode, Juliet - on residency at the Izolyatsia cultural foundation (https://izolyatsia.org/en) in Kyiv, where it has been in exile from its home in Donetsk since the Russian occupation in 2014 - meets artist Maria Kulikovska (https://www.mariakulikovska.com), herself in exile from Crimea, and academic Jessica Zychowicz (https://www.jeszychowicz.com), author of 'Frame Work: Art, Activism, and Biopolitics in Inter-Revolutionary Kyiv 2004-2018' (Univ. of Toronto Press) to discuss the practicalities, problems and possibilities for artists in contemporary Ukraine. On de-Communisation – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/ukraine-decommunisation-law-soviet Donetsk People's Republic paramilitary takeover of Izolyatsia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GfeGF1QYP4 SELECTED REFERENCES Ukrainian/Soviet modernist artists: Aleksandr Archipenko, David Burlyuk, Aleksandra Exter, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin Executed Renaissance (inter-war literary movement) - http://euromaidanpress.com/longreads/executed-renaissance-in-ukraine/ Ivan (dir. Oleksandr Dovzhenko, 1932) - https://grunes.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/ivan-aleksandr-dovzhenko-1932/ Les Kurbas (theatre director) - http://www.kurbas.org.ua/en/centre.html Mykola Skrypnyk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Skrypnyk Svetlana Alexeivich (memoirs) Apartment 14 (young artist who inherited apartment) Bu-Ba-Bu (poetry circle) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu-Ba-Bu David Chichkan - https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/euromaidan-art-exhibition-vandalized.html Adam Curtis on Vladislav Surkov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4MWs7qTr8 Euromaidan. Rough Cut (2014 film) - https://vimeo.com/90920946 Mayo Fryderyk – dressed as general, orange dwarf Grey Horses (dir. Mykola Ridnyi, 2016) - http://www.mykolaridnyi.com/video-works/grey-horses-1 Hometown (dir. Metahaven, 2018) - https://izolyatsia.org/en/project/hometown/hometown/ Hudrada (curatorial unit) SERHIY KOVALCHUK (ed.), Reimagining Utopias: Theory and Method for Educational Research in Post-Soviet Contexts (2017) CZESLAW MILOSZ, The Captive Mind (1953) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind MYKHAILO MINAKOV, Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe (2018) - http://www.minakovphilosophy.com/ Ofanziba group (Ukraine) Orange Alternative - https://culture.pl/en/article/the-orange-alternative-there-is-no-freedom-without-dwarfs Valentina Petrova Pomoranchova (Polish poetry group) Revolutionary Experimental Space (REP) - https://www.thegreenbox.net/en/books/rep-revolutionary-experimental-space SOSka art collective (Kharkiv) - http://www.mykolaridnyi.com/curatorial-projects/soska-group The Sprawl (Propaganda about Propaganda) (dir. Metahaven, 2015) - http://sprawl.space/about-the-sprawl/ Ukrainian Body exhibition - http://vcrc.org.ua/en/ukrbody/ Lesya Ukrainka Voina - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voina HAYDEN WHITE, The Content of the Form (1987)

Channeling Brussels, hosted by journalist Teri Schultz, gets newsmakers, movers and shakers to lose the lingo, burst out of the Brussels bubble and have real conversations about the critical foreign and security policies shaping our world. it's the rest of the story, beyond the few seconds of soundbites that make it into the news. This week's guest is the US envoy for Ukraine negotiations, Kurt Volker, who's heading into his fourth meeting with Kremlin counterpart Vladislav Surkov on Friday, trying to find a way forward for the nearly four-year conflict in eastern Ukraine. Volker came to Brussels on his way to the Surkov rendez-vous in Dubai, to brief NATO and EU officials before visiting Kiev and the frontline in Donbas. Channeling Brussels is brought to you by the Atlantic Council. [Intro/Outro music "Happy Rock" by Bensound under a CC-BY-ND license (www.bensound.com/royalty-free-mus…rack/happy-rock/)]

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the intellectual and ideological nature of the art and culture produced between October 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remained hotly debated and, at times, poorly understood. Here, Juliet Jacques welcomes writer/critics Maria Chehonadskih, Owen Hatherley (author of Militant Modernism (2009), Landscapes of Communism (2015) and The Chaplin Machine (2016)) and Ilia Rogatchevski to discuss the cultural legacy of the Soviet period and challenge Western preconceptions about the relationship between art and politics in the former USSR, from the Constructivist energy of the 1920s and imposition of Socialist Realism under Stalin, all the way through to the underground art movements of the 1980s. WORKS REFERENCED: Maria Chehonadskih on Pussy Riot – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/what-is-pussy-riots-idea Adam Curtis on Vladislav Surkov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4MWs7qTr8 SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Aleksandr Nevsky (1938) SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Ivan the Terrible (Parts I & II) (1944-1958) SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928) EVALD ILYENKOV (Soviet theorist) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/ ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV (Moscow Conceptual School) - https://ilya-emilia-kabakov.com/ VITALI KOMAR (Sots Art founder) - http://www.komarandmelamid.org/ MIKHAIL LIFSHITZ(Soviet philosopher) - https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/12/15/art-is-dead-long-live-art-mikhail-lifshitz-on-karl-marxs-philosophy-of-art/ EDUARD LIMONOV (National Bolshevik Party) CHRIS MARKER, The Last Bolshevik (1993) - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-happiness-is-making-a-bolshevik-laugh-1459870.html VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, '150,000,000' (1919-1920) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/150_000_000 VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bathhouse (1929) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bathhouse VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bedbug (1928) - http://snoowilson.co.uk/The%20Bedbug.pdf ALEKSANDR MEDVEDKIN (Soviet filmmaker) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin Deimantas Narkevičius (Lithuanian filmmaker/artist) YURI OLESHA, Envy (1927) - https://godsavethetsar.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/dont-laugh-andrei-petrovich-yuri-oleshas-envy/ VIKTOR PELEVIN (Russian author) BORIS PILNYAK, The Naked Year (1928) - http://www.overlookpress.com/ardis/naked-year-1.html ANDREI PLATONOV, The Foundation Pit (1930) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Pit ABRAM ROOM, Bed and Sofa (1927) - http://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/1339/film-club-sofa-and-bed-abram-room VLADIMIR SOROKIN (Russian author) VLADIMIR TATLIN, Letatlin – http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-birdlike-soviet-flying-machine-that-never-quite-took-off VLADIMIR TATLIN, 'Monument to the Third International' (1919-1920, unbuilt) DZIGA VERTOV, The Eleventh Year (1928) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSve8HNjZ4Y DZIGA VERTOV, Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1930) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUInm2dC6Ug DZIGA VERTOV, Kino-Pravda (1920s) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0SJyLX9MgQ DZIGA VERTOV, Man with a Movie Camera (1929) DZIGA VERTOV, Stride, Soviet! (1926) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILG1_ceQCzE DZIGA VERTOV, Three Songs of Lenin (1934) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66SYdygrpE VOINA, phallus on Liteiny Bridge, St. Petersburg - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/apr/12/voina-art-terrorism

Vladislav Surkov is the high ranking Putin advisor behind the Russian propaganda war in Ukraine. In March of twenty-fourteen after the annexation of Crimea, the Canadian, European Union and U.S. governments froze Surkov’s foreign bank accounts and banned him from traveling to their countries. Afterwards, a Kremlin reporter asked if he would miss visiting the United States. Surkov responded, “The only things that interest me in the U.S. are Tupac Shakur, Allen Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock. I don’t need a visa to access their work. I lose nothing.” Vladislav Sarkov also writes fiction. On march 12, 2014, he published his story, Without Sky, under a pseudonym. The next day, 10,000 Russian soldiers were sent to the border of Ukraine. This is the story --- it is propaganda, but also a vision an elite.

Battling the swarm of political messaging, a quick zip into the abyss with Vladislav Surkov, and bets are placed on the shape of the new American fascism. - "Without Sky" by "Natan Dubovitsky" (trans. Bill Bowler): http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue582/without_sky.html

Estoy hablando completamente en serio. Hace algún tiempo, Vladislav Surkov, diputado jefe del gobierno presidencial, declaró que hay enemigos a los que se puede hacer entrar en razón, mientras que otros son enemigos incorregibles con los que no se puede hablar y que deberían ser barridos sin más de la arena política.