“And the new Kremlin won’t make the same mistake the old Soviet Union did: it will never let TV become dull. The task is to synthesize Soviet control with Western entertainment.” — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“Everything is PR” has become the favorite phrase of the new Russia; my Moscow peers are filled with a sense that they are both… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“If the West once undermined and helped to ultimately defeat the USSR by uniting free market economics, cool culture, and democratic politics into one… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned.… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“And the new Kremlin won’t make the same mistake the old Soviet Union did: it will never let TV become dull. The task is… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“At the front door I pat my trouser pocket to check for the thin outline of my passport and realize it’s not there. Always… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are left orphaned.… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“Ostankino’s strategies became ever more twisted, the need to incite panic and fear ever more urgent; rationality was tuned out, and Kremlin-friendly cults and… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“We used to have this self-centred idea that Western democracies were the end-point of evolution, and we're dealing from a position of strength, and… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
“When my parents died I could remember them through the building that we lived in. Buildings aren’t so much about recollecting time as about… — Peter Pomerantsev Copy Share Image
