Peter Pomerantsev

“Everything is PR” has become the favorite phrase of the new Russia; my Moscow peers are filled with a sense that they…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“If the West once undermined and helped to ultimately defeat the USSR by uniting free market economics, cool culture, and democratic politics…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“And the new Kremlin won’t make the same mistake the old Soviet Union did: it will never let TV become dull. The…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“At the front door I pat my trouser pocket to check for the thin outline of my passport and realize it’s not…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“How do you build a history based on ceaseless self-slaughter and betrayal? Do you deny it? Forget it? But then you are…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“Ostankino’s strategies became ever more twisted, the need to incite panic and fear ever more urgent; rationality was tuned out, and Kremlin-friendly…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“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…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“When my parents died I could remember them through the building that we lived in. Buildings aren’t so much about recollecting time…

— Peter Pomerantsev