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Showing posts with label soviet union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soviet union. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Trump's 1987 Moscow Trip: The Recruitment of Agent Orange?

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by Nomad In 1987, real estate mogul Donald Trump was invited to Moscow by the Soviets- with the approval of the KGB. What this busi...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

The Search For My Grandfather in the KGB's Ukrainian Files

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by  Bernie Neufeld, Guest Contributor O ne of our nomads, Linda, recently asked me if I would be interested in posting an article writ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Putin's Grand Offensive Against the West and What We Must Do About It - Part 1

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by Nomad In a piece for Foreign Affairs ,  Michael Anthony McFaul , the US ambassador to Russia between 2012 and 2014, offers us s...
Monday, April 4, 2016

Czar Vladimir: How Putin Wasted Russia's Best Chance for a Liberal Democracy 3 / 3

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by Nomad In this final installment of the three-part series, we turn to the realities of Putin's attempt at empire-building and the...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Czar Vladimir: How Putin Wasted Russia's Best Chance for a Liberal Democracy 2 / 3

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by Nomad In Part One of this three-part series, we examined how the fall of the Soviet Union should have provided Russia with its best...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Czar Vladimir: How Putin Wasted Russia's Best Chance for a Liberal Democracy 1 / 3

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by Nomad The collapse of the Soviet Union offered the Russian people an unprecedented chance at liberal democracy. Unfortunately, what...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

How Russian President Putin Uses "Foreign Agent" Laws and State-Owned Media to Intimidate Dissent

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by Nomad Russia's English-language daily newspaper, The Moscow Times , has this insight in how the Russian government, with state-ow...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

April 12, 1945- The Day America's Father Died

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by Nomad Today marks the seventieth anniversary of the death one of America's greatest presidents. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

The Browder Affair and the Death of Russian Economic Reform 1/3

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by Nomad Here's a three-part post on the investor who led a crusade to clean up corrupt newly-privatized companies in Russia. The ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Crimean Chess: The Six Unintended Effects of Putin's Ukrainian Miscalculation

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by Nomad By miscalculation, Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have painted himself into a corner since his decision to back th...
Friday, April 25, 2014

The Sad Reality Behind Putin's Claim that the Internet is a CIA Project

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by Nomad Yesterday Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the Internet was an ongoing CIA plot.  Once again, he demonstrated h...
Monday, February 17, 2014

The Long Russian Winter of Vladimir Putin

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by Nomad Russian President Vladimir Putin may not be as popular as he once was. Of late his policies both internationally and domestical...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

American Dreams: My Father, Karl Marx and the Man who Sold the Rope 1/2

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by Nomad Let’s Begin With My Father M y father, born in 1929, grew up in the midst of the Great Depression, in what most peop...