Peter Pomerantsev

Pomerantsev is the author of This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality. He is a Senior Fellow at SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University.

Recent Articles

Prigozhin Is Dead. Russian Gangster Culture Lives On

Prigozhin was both a model for Russian criminals and a manifestation of a fundamental truth about Russia

By Peter Pomerantsev

Autocrats Are Weaponizing Globalization. Ukraine Is Where They Must Be Stopped

To secure Ukraine’s sovereignty—and our own—we need to break the power of networked authoritarians

By Peter Pomerantsev

Russia Wants to Lock Ukraine Back in the Soviet Cellar

Russia wants to imprison a whole country, to trap and confine Ukraine in Putin's cellar, both metaphorically and literally.

By Peter Pomerantsev

Ukraine Is Our Past and Our Future

As she lay dying in a North London hospital, my grandmother started to hallucinate scenes from her Ukrainian childhood. All around the ward she saw starving children, skeletal, collapsing in the long, white, strip-light corridors—lying,...

By Peter Pomerantsev

What Putin’s Nazi Talk Reveals About His Plans for Ukraine

Language defines reality. Language defines who is a "real" person, and who isn’t. He who controls language controls life and death. That was the conclusion of the literature professor Viktor Klemperer, as he tried to...

By Peter Pomerantsev

Putin's Attack on Ukraine Is an Attempt to Delay His Own Inevitable Demise

Vladimir Putin is an old man scared of death trying to turn back time. Ukraine and Ukrainians are as his blood sacrifice. His invasion of their country is his attempt to forestall his personal, inevitable...

By Peter Pomerantsev

The West Doesn't Understand Putin's Ukraine Obsession

Putin's obsessive threats to Ukraine can't only be understood on geopolitical terms, and should shape how we respond

By Peter Pomerantsev

We Need to Stop Thinking of Conflict With Russia as an 'Information War'

On November 9th, 2019 we mark the thirty year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall—a year synonymous with the end of the Cold War, the ideological defeat of the USSR, the victory of...

By Peter Pomerantsev
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