Friday, October 27 , 2017 - 20:25 (EET) Section: New Republic (USA)
The photographer Ivan Sigal documented post-Soviet life in Moscow during the 1990s.In 1997, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the Clinton administration’s lead official on all matters Russia, gave a speech at Stanford University on American policy toward Moscow. He admitted, in not so many words, that persuading the erratic President Boris Yeltsin to keep on course with economic reform and progress toward democracy was a daunting task. But Talbott declared himself optimistic nonetheless. His main reason, he said, was “generational,”or to be even more blunt, biological. The dynamic of what is happening in Russia today is not just Westernizers
Source: The New Republic
Friday, October 27 , 2017 - 20:25 (EET) Section: New Republic (USA)
The photographer Ivan Sigal documented post-Soviet life in Moscow during the 1990s.In 1997, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the Clinton administration’s lead official on all matters Russia, gave a speech at Stanford University on American policy toward Moscow. He admitted, in not so many words, that persuading the erratic President Boris Yeltsin to keep on course with economic reform and progress toward democracy was a daunting task. But Talbott declared himself optimistic nonetheless. His main reason, he said, was “generational,”or to be even more blunt, biological. The dynamic of what is happening in Russia today is not just Westernizers
Source: The New Republic
