Putin, in the footsteps of Potemkin, is trying to recreate the Russian Empire https://t.co/C0XCrorBJa
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024
Day: June 10, 2024
Putin, in the footsteps of Potemkin, is trying to recreate the Russian Empire https://t.co/C0XCrorBJa
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024
Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke as Catherine the Great and Potemkin in the Sky series. Right, Russian troops guard the Kakhovka hydroelectric station by the vital dam
ALAMY
In the most macabre and symbolic act of the war so far, Russian special forces last month secretly entered the cathedral crypt in the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson and removed the dusty bones of an 18th-century Russian prince.
Grigory Potemkin was the lover, favourite and chief adviser of Catherine the Great: soldier, statesman, highly cultured anglophile, a priapic, gambling, church-going libertine and visionary described by one contemporary as “an inconceivable mixture of grandeur and pettiness, laziness and activity, bravery and timidity, ambition and insouciance”.
Above all, Potemkin was an indefatigable empire-builder. In the 1770s, he persuaded the empress to expand Russian rule into what is now southern Ukraine. Kherson was founded by royal decree in 1778 on the high bank of the Dnipro
The Potemkin Strategy of Vladimir Putin:
He tried to justify the “annexation” of the legally Ukrainian lands because “Catherine the Great and Potemkin built the towns here”. Good reason.😃
The World does not need the Putin’s Potemkin Russia. And the Russians themselves do not… pic.twitter.com/k8uWPULcUS— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024
The Potemkin Strategy of Vladimir Putin:
He tried to justify the “annexation” of the legally Ukrainian lands because “Catherine the Great and Potemkin built the towns here”. Good reason.😃
The World does not need the Putin’s Potemkin Russia. And the Russians themselves do not… pic.twitter.com/k8uWPULcUS— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024
The Potemkin Strategy of Vladimir Putin:
He tried to justify the “annexation” of the legally Ukrainian lands because “Katherine the Great and Potemkin built the towns here”. Good reason.😃
The World does not need the Putin’s Potemkin Russia. And the Russians themselves do not… pic.twitter.com/cvkEeqRmXP— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024
https://t.co/VtvX7pPbGa
Putin’s Russia is the Potemkin’s Russia! #NewsAndTimes #NT #TNT #News #Times#World #USA #POTUS #DOJ #FBI #CIA #DIA #ODNI#Israel #Mossad #Netanyahu#Ukraine #NewAbwehr #OSINT#Putin #Russia #GRU #Путин, #Россия #SouthCaucasus #Bloggers… pic.twitter.com/d4GIHl65K2— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024
The Potemkin Strategy of Vladimir Putin:
He tried to justify the “annexation” of the legally Ukrainian lands because “Katherine the Great and Potemkin built the towns here”. Good reason.😃
The World does not need the Potemkin Russia. And the Russians themselves do not need it… pic.twitter.com/fkB9IX4NnG— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024
https://t.co/iSJb9Lj0Cy
News Review#NewsAndTimes #NT #TNT #News #Times#World #USA #POTUS #DOJ #FBI #CIA #DIA #ODNI#Israel #Mossad #Netanyahu#Ukraine #NewAbwehr #OSINT#Putin #Russia #GRU #Путин, #Россия #SouthCaucasus #Bloggershttps://t.co/O0SIgLVWzMhttps://t.co/DO5LG3PY4T…— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024
Путин объявляет новую аннексию | ПРЯМОЙ ЭФИР https://t.co/tIIEpHpNZr via @YouTube
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) June 10, 2024