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André Glucksmann: The Consummate Contemporary
Editor’s note: French philosopher, author, and activist André Glucksmann died on November 10 at age 78. With Bernard-Henri Lévy he was a founding member of the New Philosophers. Swirling around my head since this morning are the many André Glucksmanns that I have known. Caroming, they send me into zones of memory that I had not expected to...
Robert Legvold on the New Cold War, Interview with Columbia University Professor and Leading Russia Scholar
Robert Legvold is a Marshall D Shulman Professor Emeritus at the Columbia University political science department. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the foreign policy of post-Soviet states, and a book reviewer for Foreign Affairs magazine. Previously, he served as the director of Soviet studies on the Council of Foreign Relations...
Kremlin: Russian Ban On Flights To Egypt Will Last Months
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow’s ban on all flights to Egypt in the wake of a Russian plane crash will last for at least several months, the Kremlin chief of staff said Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to Egypt’s struggling tourism industry.President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said on a visit to Finland that it would be...
Putin Is So Mad At Ukraine That He’s Bombing Syria
Former UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian was once famously quoted as saying, “The NCAA is so mad at the University of Kentucky that they’re going to put Cleveland State on probation for two more years.” It’s an analogy that could apply to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is punishing Syria for his failures in...
Netanyahu’s Washington Visit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to Washington to collect his payoff for being disgruntled over the agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program, which was signed by that country and the world’s great powers. Although President Obama and Netanyahu seem to personally dislike each other, because of Israel’s clout in...
Characters From Renaissance Paintings Take Over The Streets Of Ukraine
For his series “The Daily Lives of Gods,” Alexey Kondakov juxtaposes the modern and oft bleak streets of Kiev, Ukraine, with classic Renaissance paintings. The idea came to the Ukrainian art director when he discovered the 17th century Caesar van Everdingen painting “Nymphs Offering the Young Bacchus Wine,” while surfing...
Daredevil Climbs Eiffel Tower, Records A Stomach-Churning Video
File this under: Things not to try on your next family vacation. James Kingston, a Youtuber and adventurer who has previously climbed the Dnopro Towers in Ukraine and somehow manages to capture his terrifying stunts on video, is back at it for a new climb. This time, up the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Without any visible ropes or safety...
The Great Game
The rivalry between the British Empire and Russia in Central Asia during the 19th century was referred to as “The Great Game”. The British were concerned that the Russians had eyes on India and wanted to assert themselves in the region. The Russians wanted to have a foothold in a place it deemed important to its strategic interests....
Excellent Documentary Portrays Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity
History is mostly curated and told years or even centuries later by persons not directly involved. But the twentieth century video camera brought us history on the run, produced by journalists, and now the cell phone records events and stories told by the participants themselves in real time. The finest example of this New History is the newly...
Russia and Afghanistan: Strange Bedfellows
There has been concern in the western world for some time, and rightly so, that Russia under the rule of Vladimir Putin wants to assert itself as a superpower resembling the defunct USSR. Putin has been working on this endeavor ever since he was brought to power by the late Boris Yeltsin, the founder of the new Russia after the collapse of the...
