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Feb 20 2025 
In the Heart of Donbass: A Spiritual Travelogue
Please see earlier segments of this Saga of Love: [Transcending Avdeevka] [A Travelogue] [Trilogy of Hope]
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
AVDEYEVKA – It’s a snowy noon in Avdeyevka this past Saturday – exactly one year and two days after the liberation of the now completely destroyed city, and I am talking to two survivors of the… Continue reading
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Mar 20 2024 
A Travelogue of Electoral Donbass
Donetsk, Avdeyevka, Mariupol – on the Road in Electoral Donbass
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
They have waited 10 long, suffering years to vote in this election. And vote they did, in massive numbers, certifying a landslide reelection for the political leader who brought them back to Mother Russia. VVP may now be widely referred to as… Continue reading -
Feb 14 2024 
The Spiritual Beat in Wartime Donbass
“… Deep down in the Donbass countryside, in communion with those living life during wartime, we feel the enormity of something inexplicable and vast, full of endless wonder, as if touching the Tao by silencing the recurrent loud booms. In Russian there is, of course, a word for it: “загадка”, roughly translated as “enigma” or… Continue reading
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Feb 13 2024 
Putin, 2022 “Satanism Speech”
This Speech is best bracketed with his Munich Security Council Speech of 10.02.2007 (here). It tracks the evolution of President Putin’s thought, and the final turning of the Russian Mir from the Old Order built by the combined West.
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A ceremony for signing the treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s… Continue reading
