Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel ( English audio), December 3, 2018

Credits and thank you to Thorsten Kurz for creating this synthesized English audio from the original Finnish language lecture. Martti J. Kari (former intelligence colonel in the Finnish Defence Forces): Russian strategic culture Why Russia does things the way it does Subtitles can be opened and changed from the video settings Quiet parts between sentences have been cut out of this version, therefore it s 6 minutes shorter than the original 0:00 Personal introduction 0:45 Governmental, political and military questions How is Russia different from all the other countries and why 2:44 Russia s six layers in history: Slavic, Byzantine, Asian, chaos, European and Superpower 4:25 Cultural features from the Mongol era: corruption, cruelty and lying 3:54 The era of Europe and Russia as a superpower: Peter the Great, a land between the West and the East 7:22 Geographical nature of Russia, 11 time