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Corruption and Populism Are the West’s Weaknesses, Not Moscow’s Invention
It is important to remember that no one tied Austria’s far-right politician Strache to a chair and forced him to listen to the Russian’s pitch.
- Mark Galeotti
- The Moscow Times
Austria faces snap elections after a mysterious video was released showing vice chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the far-right Freedom Party promising government contracts to an…
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has dissolved his right-wing coalition with the Freedom Party, and while much is unclear about the case, it has once again raised the question of Moscow’s assiduous cultivation of populists and…
However, comfortable assumptions…