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Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Attacked And Beaten In Airport
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and fellow anti-corruption activists were attacked, thrown to the ground and kicked by a group of men at an airport in southern Russia on Tuesday, according to video posted on social media.Footage showed the assailants, described by Navalny as Cossacks and wearing traditional fur...
The Evolution of Trump’s Views on Russia
Now that Donald Trump is all but assured the Republican nomination, the recent exchanges between Putin and Trump deserve more attention. No other candidate has so directly discussed his/her views of Putin, and certainly Russian president has not shared his views on any other candidate but Mr. Trump. In December of 2015, Putin held a press...
Why Vladimir Putin Wants Destabilization, Not Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh
On April 1, 2016, hostilities erupted in the Armenian-majority, Azerbaijan-occupied autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Border tensions and occasional skirmishes have been regular occurrences in the disputed territory since the May 1994 ceasefire agreement, but the recent clashes were the worst outbreak of violence in two decades. As Armenia...
Ukraine’s Eurovision Win Sparks A Political Uproar In Russia
KIEV/MOSCOW, May 15 (Reuters) – Ukrainians hailed their country’s unexpected victory in the Eurovision song contest as a Europe-wide endorsement of Ukraine in its smoldering conflict with Russia, while Moscow said the contest had been hijacked by politics.Ukrainian singer Jamala overtook the bookmakers’ favorites, Russia and...
Many Leaders in the Former Soviet Union Like Trump Because He’s One of Them
Image: Donald Trump. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com A lot of leaders in the West are appalled that Donald Trump, whom they see as a demagogue, bully and know-nothing, has a shot at becoming president of the United States. Many countries in the former Soviet Union are pulling for the presumptive Republican candidate, however. Russian President Vladimir...
Why Parag Khanna’s “Connectivity” Doesn’t Quite Connect
This review appeared first in The New York Journal of Books. Donald Trump must be punching himself for not locking up the rights to the title of Parag Khanna’s second book in the trilogy that Connectography now completes. Khanna’s previous tome carried the truly Trumpian title: How to Run the World. His latest is a 466-page...
U.S. To Switch On $800 Million Missile Shield Over Europe
DEVESELU, Romania, May 12 (Reuters) – The United States will switch on a $800 million missile shield in Romania on Thursday, part of an umbrella from Greenland to the Azores against Iranian rockets that Russia aims to knock out its nuclear weapons.At the remote Deveselu air base in Romania, senior U.S. and NATO officials will declare...
The Pain of Watching Your Country Fall Apart
It’s a terrible thing to watch the country of your birth slowly tear itself apart in an unwavering death march. That place which first welcomed my half-opened infant eyes is no longer the one I knew, nor the one from the stories I have heard. I am not talking about the suffering of Syria or the plight of Ukraine, though tragic their stories...
World War II Museum in the Focus of International Attention
You probably have heard about nearly finished World War II museum in Gdańsk, since international media, like “Washington Post” or “The Guardian”, have covered the controversial plans of Polish Ministry of Culture to dismantle the soon to be opened institution. The city of Gdańsk, being one of key founders of the museum,...
American Power Under Challenge
Masters of Mankind (Part 1) Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com[This piece, the first of two parts, is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books). Part 2 will be posted on Tuesday morning.]When we ask “Who rules the world?” we commonly adopt the standard convention that the actors in world affairs are...
