All posts tagged Vladimir Putin

Russia in 2016
December 25, 2016, 2 Comments

Putin’s Secret Riches (video) (BBC Panorama) Vladimir Putin has been accused of corruption on a breathtaking scale ...

U.S. Foreign Relations post Trump election
December 2, 2016, Comments Off on U.S. Foreign Relations post Trump election

U.S. Foreign Relations in 2015-16 So, Why Can’t You Call Taiwan? President-elect Donald Trump has committed a shar ...

Lead-up to U.S. 2016 elections – Republicans Part II
July 28, 2016, Comments Off on Lead-up to U.S. 2016 elections – Republicans Part II

The Most Extreme Republican Platform in Memory Barring some bizarre meltdown by the candidate, unexpected clusterfucks o ...

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 ...