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Nil Nikandrov

Journalist and political analyst whose columns regularly feature in the Russian-based online magazine Strategic Culture Foundation.

22 articles

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U.S. Intelligence Terrorizes Venezuela

by Nil Nikandrov

20 May 2014

For several months, U.S. intelligence services have ramped up their efforts to destabilize Venezuela. Protests circumscribed to a few neighborhoods have been widely relayed by the media to give the impression that they engulf the entire country. However, there are growing signs that Washington’s (…)

US against Venezuela: Cold War Goes Hot

by Nil Nikandrov

Moscow (Russia) | 8 March 2014

Political analysts are paying attention to the timing of America’s efforts to replace the government in Venezuela and Ukraine. Washington wants to prove that a superpower is still capable of simultaneously directing the course of events in different parts of the world and to discourage those who (…)

Would-Be Head of CIA Ready for War on All Fronts

by Nil Nikandrov

14 February 2013

Mr. President, tell us who your C.I.A. Director is and we will tell you who you are! No remark could be more appropriate in view of Barack Obama’s decision to place an apologist for torture and drone assassinations at the helm of the top U.S. intelligence agency. Analyst Nil Nikandrov fills out (…)

The carefully organized Paraguay coup

by Nil Nikandrov

28 June 2012

Under Barack Obama’s watch, Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo is the second Latin American leftist president to have been deposed from office in a scenario orchestrated by his political opponents and very close friends of the U.S. Embassy in Asunción. Nil Nikandrov predicts that this pattern of (…)

Revolt In Libya: a Message to Chavez

by Nil Nikandrov

Moscow (Russia) | 5 September 2011

The foray against the Venezuelan Embassy in Tripoli at the hands of the National Transitional Council was meant to send President Chavez a clear message. He, too, can be overthrown by Western powers. Hence, Caracas is carefully examing the way in which the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was first (…)

US Planning to Grab Venezuela’s Oil

by Nil Nikandrov

Moscow (Russia) | 9 June 2011

There is a growing impression that Venezuela with its oil riches is the next country on the US hit list. Latin America analyst Nil Nikandrov opines that one would have to be a hopeless idealist to believe that - after US crusades swept across Asian and African oil-producing countries - the (…)

The US is Synchronously Preparing to Launch Aggressions Against Iran and Venezuela

by Nil Nikandrov

2 August 2010

After years of fruitless attempts by Washington to unseat Hugo Chavez through "softer" methods, Barack Obama - observes Nil Nikandrov - has decided to attain his goal by force, resorting to the militarization of the region. An analogy could be made between Venezuela’s situation and Washington’s (…)