All posts tagged Vladimir Putin

Wednesday Night #1776
March 16, 2016, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1776

Much discussion of the U.S. political scene and the awfulness of Donald Trump’s success which is based on his very ...

Russia in 2015
December 17, 2015, 1 Comment

Ukraine 2015 Munk Debates: Be it resolved the West should engage, not isolate Russia Sanctions and isolation or engageme ...

Syria 2015
December 16, 2015, Comments Off on Syria 2015

Syria is the prototype place where it’s a proxy war for some regional powers. The camps, so to speak, are the regime i ...

Wednesday Night #1720
February 18, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1720

Despite a number of other important items, we expect Grexit [‘Grexit’ risks rise but compromise seen still p ...

Russia in 2014
December 30, 2014, 4 Comments

Aleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Is Spared Prison in a Fraud Case, but His Brother Is Jailed (NYT) Hours after being spare ...

U.S. Foreign Relations in 2013 – 2014
December 29, 2014, 1 Comment

Kevin Drum: Obama’s Foreign Policy: Frustrating, Perhaps, But Better Than Most of the Alternatives (Mother Jones) ...

How to explain Putin’s methods and objectives?
December 8, 2014, Comments Off on How to explain Putin’s methods and objectives?

How He and His Cronies Stole Russia Book review by Anne Applebaum Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawis ...

Europe & EU 2014
December 1, 2014, 1 Comment

The European EU Observer New School of Athens (NSoA) Ukraine Watch as 1000 years of European borders change Sarko is bac ...

Ukraine 2014
November 2, 2014, 7 Comments

The Guardian Ukraine BBC World News Ukraine crisis Reuters World News Russia CIA World Factbook: Ukraine See also Russia ...

Wednesday Night #1696
September 3, 2014, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1696

As we contemplate the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric surrounding international affairs and domestic politics, we are re ...

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