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Obama's decision on missile defense sites in Europe-grave mistake
September 17, 2009Today's announcement by the Obama Administration that it plans to discontinue the deployment of U.S. missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic represents a stunning reversal of longstanding U.S. policy priorities and a potentially grave strategic...
Russia Must Face Up to Tragic Reality of Hitler-Stalin Alliance
September 17, 2009By Paul Goble Today’s Russians are in no way responsible for Stalin’s alliance with Hitler, but they must acknowledge its immorality if their calls for the creation of a new collective security system are to be taken seriously, the Memorial...
Thousands Rally against US Government Spending
September 12, 2009Americans protesting what they say is out-of-control spending by the nation's political leaders are rallying in Washington to voice their displeasure. Demonstrators from across the United States marched on the Capitol building Saturday, chanting slogans...
Kyiv Needs New Security Guarantees Given Russian Threat
September 12, 2009By Paul Goble A group of 29 leading public figures in Ukraine, including former president Leonid Kravchuk, is calling on the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council -- other than Russia, of course -- and the international community more generally...
Ukraine is Escaping the Past but Russia is Not
September 10, 2009By Paul Goble In what matters most – a national self-definition that recognizes the futility of zero-sum politics in the modern world – Ukraine, with all its problems, nonetheless has achieved far more over the last 18 years than Russia...
Vladimir Putin: No difference between Kosovo and South Ossetia
August 28, 2009By Paul Goble Putin Dreams of Acting like the Soviet Image of the US rather than like One of Washington’s ‘Vassals,’ Moscow Analyst Says Prime Minister Vladimir Putin revealed more about himself this week than he may have...
US Senator Edward Kennedy, Heir of Powerful Family, Dies
August 26, 2009By Deborah Tate U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, the elder statesman of America's most famous political family, is dead at the age of 77 (born 2/22/32) after a battle with brain cancer. He was the youngest brother of slain President John Kennedy. The...
Defenders of Molotov-Ribbentrop Reflect Moscow’s Authoritarianism
August 25, 2009By Paul Goble Pro-Kremlin ideologists have rushed to defend the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact not so much in order to revive Stalinism in all its dimensions but rather to exploit Stalin’s ultimately failed alliance with Hitler to promote “the...
Governments of Abkhazia, South Ossetia Hire US PR Firm
August 17, 2009By Roman Kupchinsky The governments of the break-away Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have hired the Pasadena, California - based public relations firm of Mark Saylor LLC to promote their image in the West. The two governments will pay...
Leaving the CIS, Georgia Becomes Part of Russia’s ‘Far Abroad’
August 17, 2009By Paul Goble Tomorrow, on August 18, one year after Tbilisi declared its intention to do so, Georgia will officially cease to be a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and thus, in the words of one Moscow paper, should now be considered...
