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Mikhail Gorbachev wrote an excellent article criticizing the West's reaction to Russia (Read his article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081101372.html). No doubt, the NRO... Russian Bombers Intercepted Over the U.S. Today
Here we go again.This could be the beginning of another Cold War."MOSCOW - NATO forces sent jets to escort two Russian long-range air force bombers patrolling neutral skies near Alaska on Wednesday, Russian news... I’ve Changed My Mind About ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’
Suspecting it to be a left-wing effort to shift credit for defeating the Soviet Union’s military in Afghanistan almost 30 years ago away from Ronald Reagan and to a Democratic Party congressman from Texas whose... The Poppy Fields {part 2} – Afghanistan
It is hard to picture what took place in the fields of the Somme nearly one hundred years ago. There is nothing to help you to assimilate the reality: Over one million people killed each other in four... Photographers Versus Security Guards in Washington, DC
I recently wrote about photography being banned in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, where a formerly public street has been turned over to a private company. Yesterday I was on my way to a photographers'... Russian spies have us mapped out
"Russian spy maps of the UK, produced by the KGB during the 'Cold War', have officially arrived in British hands through digital mapping provider Landmark Information Group.Purchased for an undisclosed sum from East View Cartographics, the maps were bought by the UK's leading...Facing Makkah: WHY Is Hamas Required to Recognize Israel's Right to Exist?
" Facing Makkah: WHY Is Hamas Required to Recognize Israel's Right to Exist? By Uri Avnery Gush Shalom, February 19, 2007 MUST A Native-American recognize the right of the United States of America to exist? Interesting question. The USA was established by Europeans who...Return of the Soviets
" Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay had an interesting slip of the tongue while being interviewed on CTV's Question Period yesterday. When asked about Putin's charge that American Unilateralism was responsible for increasing world tensions around nuclear weapons,...The orphans of Sumqayit
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Russia is a cheap talent pool for Western companies looking for IT talent. " A shortage of information technology graduates from Western universities is leading companies to call on developing countries to meet...Rubber bullets at Hungary protest
"Police in Hungary have fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters during commemorations of the 1956 uprising against Soviet rule."Russian Police Drawing - Stereotypes of Soviet Peoples
The Accidental Russophile exams an old Soviet Police memo with a drawing of various ethnic stereotypes of people from the Soviet Union. A picture containing an image of the typical Russian, Ukrainian, Tatar, Jewish, Gypsy, Latvian, etc. The image has reportedly...Deportations Add Fuel to the Fire
"Russia deported a planeload of Georgians on Friday as the stand-off between the two countries intensified. The latest row was sparked by the arrest of four alleged Russian spies. The reaction from Moscow has been...ABC News: Gorbachev: 'Americans Have a Severe Disease'
Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex," he said. "You want an American style-democracy here. That will not work."Kalashnikov inventor laments proliferation
"AP - Mikhail Kalashnikov says he designed the assault rifle that bears his name to fend off the German invasion of the Soviet Union."
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