1/04/2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the Victory Day celebrations organizing committee in the Kremlin in Moscow on Tuesday. (Sergei Ilnitsky / Associated Press) To the editor: When three former U.S. ambassadors agree on a foreign policy move, we should listen, no matter their political persuasions. (“Kiev, not Moscow, should be the choice […]
1/04/2015
Chancellor Merkel will not to take part in Moscow’s parade to mark the end of World War II on May 9, but she’ll be there a day later. No doubt a difficult choice, but it was the right one, says DW’s Christian F. Trippe. In the end, it was merely the timing of the decision […]
1/04/2015
It’s right to honor WW II sacrifices on the eastern front, but not in Moscow in 2015 Kiev is appropriate site for V-E Day ceremony; Ukraine lost an estimated 25% of its population German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron have rightly turned down Vladimir Putin’s invitation to go to Moscow on […]
1/04/2015
The following excerpts thoroughly document how capitalists really acted during the Second World War. Behind the patriotic propaganda that encouraged the working class to slaughter each other in the interests of competing national interests, international capital quietly kept the commodity circuits flowing and profits growing across all borders. Trading with the Enemy – war means […]
1/04/2015
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the concept of empire entered Soviet and post-Soviet studies, as scholars attempted to place the end of the Soviet multinational state in an appropriate comparative framework. A variety of excellent books was the result, including edited volumes by Bruce Parrott and Karen Dawisha, Barnett Rubin and Jack Snyder, Richard Rudolph and […]
5/03/2015
Putin went to the summit of the Group of Twenty (G 20), without waiting for the end of the program. Of course, the Russian president has the right to sleep on his arrival in Moscow, the more that “to work on Monday.” It is possible that the plane on which it is necessary to “eight […]
5/03/2015
Smart guy named George Soros gave an interview to the German magazine Cicero. His much quoted today on both sides of the geopolitical front line. With “our side” – more ridicule. And a very good reason. Soros – a man is definitely smart. Without looking, it was clean water speculator. To make a fortune in […]
10/12/2014
Though Ukraine’s not-quite cease-fire is far preferable to the summer’s heavier fighting, it is far from clear that it will lead to a sustainable settlement between Kiev and eastern Ukrainian separatists, Moscow and Kiev, or the United States and Russia. A recent presentation at the Center for the National Interest by Andranik Migranyan, a well-informed […]
10/12/2014
PARIS, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Even as tension in Ukraine mounts anew, veteran diplomats are starting to think quietly about a way out of the worst East-West crisis since the end of the Cold War. It may seem a poor time to imagine a revamped security architecture for Europe when a frail ceasefire in eastern […]
10/12/2014
The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin According to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet empire, and he may eventually go after the rest of Ukraine, as […]
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