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Post by pieter on Dec 30, 2023 14:16:10 GMT -7
16 mei 2014
Hubert Smeets -- a journalist from Amsterdam, Netherlands, who got his degree in History and Political Science, fluently speaks Dutch, English, Russian, German and French. He works as a journalist and an editor specializing in Eastern Europe since 1980. Hubert Smeets is also an author of several books on Russian history and politics: 'Aggrieved souls. Freedom in Russia'. (1993) and Heritage of an empire. Fall of the Soviet Union, rise of Russia. (2004).
Now Hubert speaks on his experience as a foreign journalist covering all the events of Euromaidan, Crimea Crisis and current events in Eastern Ukraine on the ground, Informational war and what are some specific facts he noticed about, trends and transformations he could see in Ukraine during last few month here.
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Post by pieter on Dec 30, 2023 14:22:03 GMT -7
26 sep 2017
The West is more and more divided by an iron curtain inside the society. Even NATO, once a bulwark of free democracies, is split: between open and closed social structures, between international and national approaches, between cooperation and confrontation. A model of nationalistic and authoritarian guided democracy is on the rise. Russia is promoting this worldview with success. In the meantime, millenials all over the place watch this trends, which ar contrary to their interest, but do not act against it. 2018 will be a decisive year.
Keywords: NATO. Russia. Putin. Democracy. Cold War. Populism. Millenials. Brexit. Collective action Hubert Smeets (Amsterdam, April 22, 1956) is a Dutch journalist and historian. He is one of the founders of the Knowledge and Analysis Platform Window on Russia and prepares a (political) biography of Dutch politician Hans van Mierlo. Smeets is an employee of NRC Handelsblad, where he started volunteering in 1980. From 2003 to September 2007 he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper magazine De Groene Amsterdammer. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
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Post by pieter on Dec 30, 2023 16:30:00 GMT -7
Russia expert Hubert Smeets: 'An isolated Putin is capable of anything'
26,072 views Mar 14, 2022
It is now all or nothing for Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is what former correspondent and Russia expert Hubert Smeets (Amsterdam, 22 april 1956) said to Dutch journalist and radio and television presenter Sven Kockelmann (1969) on Radio 1, on Monday morning, Mar 14, 2022. “I think that Putin, because he is isolated and no longer has relationships with other world leaders, is capable of anything.” Sven Kockelmann is one of the best professional research journalists of the Dutch national Public TV and Radio.
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