He is in charge of the ideology of the eastern Ukrainian rebel movement.
To anyone who's interested in the architecture, aesthetics and ideologies of the old Eastern Bloc, North Korea is constantly fascinating.
But the defection of conservative southerners from Democrats to Republicans and the mirror-image move of north-eastern Republicans to Democrats made both parties' ideologies much clearer.
As the war neared an end, the pope opposed the unconditional surrender demanded by the Allies, fearing that it would prolong the fighting and bring the Soviet Union and its communist ideology and imperium into eastern and central Europe.
The advent of the state-sponsored "full-time amateur athlete" of the Eastern Bloc countries further eroded the ideology of the pure amateur, as it put the self-financed amateurs of the Western countries at a disadvantage.
The Ukrainian Front, a bizarre alliance of hooligans and bikers with a vaguely pan-Slavist ideology that appeared in the eastern city of Kharkiv two weeks ago, was backed by the Russians.
No matter how strongly they were opposed to the communist ideology, the bishops in the eastern half of Berlin and in the GDR could not afford to lose sight of everyday pastoral structures.
The confrontation of superpowers was condensed into Berlin's urban form, and the apartment blocks in the old eastern and western halves are imprinted with competing ideologies.
"One of Hitler's greatest mistakes," he writes, "from the viewpoint of his own interests, was that he attempted to reshape the eastern lands that fell under his suzerainty in accordance with Nazi ideology while still fighting the war".
The eastern regions of Libya have historically been particularly receptive to the ideology of political Islam.
Auden, the Eastern Europeans saw, wrote about big public subjects but in a voice that undermined ideologies.
