Russophilia

At the same time, the mercy doled out by the authorities goes to those who share such "Russophilia," like Colonel Yuri Budanov, who raped and killed a young Chechen woman and whose sentence was recently cut short - an act so outrageous that it even drew protests from the pro-Moscow officials of Chechnya.

NYT > Global Home By VIKTOR EROFEYEV 2009

It has also endured Chancellor Angela Merkel's recalibration of relations following the somewhat sinister Russophilia of her predecessor turned Kremlin lobbyist, Ger-hard Schröder, who pushed through a controversial pipeline for Russian gas that will increase Germany's dependence on the state-controlled Russian gas company Gazprom.

The New Ostpolitik 2009

Florida may have been the national sanatorium, but Henry Flagler saw that the Palm Beach air wasn’t softening Alice’s potentially homocidal Russophilia.

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

Recent Links also in Eastern & Central Europe posts a list of 534 people with birth dates killed during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, recently identified by modern DNA-technique, restoring some dignity to the victims, and making people out of numbers. directs attention to more trouble on the horizon for the Polish-Ukrainian joint hosting of the Euro 2012 soccer championships, namely the poor standard of Polish hotels not by far meeting UEFA-criteria. takes on the complex problem of Russophilia vs. Russophobia, with a very interesting and thoughtful discussion, attempting to schematically categorize bloggers and analysts, but in the process - possibly - raises more questions than providing answers, due to the very ecclectical character of the issue on various practical and theoretical levels.

Global Voices Online 2009