About 10 years ago I worked with a young Polish gentleman, and one day I caught him wistfully reminiscing about the Communists. He was only a young child when the Solidarność…
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While Russian troops camp out on the Ukrainian border, pro-Russian insurgents inside the Eastern European nation are seizing town after town, this week claiming the eastern city of Luhansk. Obama…
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Since the Russian invasion of Crimea in February, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama have been in regular contact with each other, seeking to smooth over tensions in Ukraine. Regular, almost…
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It seems there are a lot of places Russian strongman Vladimir Putin wants to invade, now that he’s given up any pretext of running the Russian Federation like a responsible…
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The international community is reeling from comments made this week by Andrej Illarionov, president Vladimir Putin’s former chief economic adviser, that the Russian strongman has long term plans to reclaim parts of “Georgia,…
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The Group of Eight (G8) forum, a coalition of the eight leading industrialized countries, is now the Group of Eight-minus-One. Russia, the last nation to join the former G7 in…