USSR
Don’t expect miracles from Russia’s ‘authoritarian modernization’
February 21, 2010By Georgy Satarov I was surprised by the reaction to the detailed interview that first deputy presidential administration head Vladislav Surkov gave to the respected “Vedomosti” newspaper this week. For some reason it was generally taken...
Stop already with the 'Is Ukraine tilting East or West?' obsession
February 20, 2010By Nadia McConnell and Irene Jarosewich The myopic perspective of Western observers, analysts, and governments that the politics and governance of Ukraine must be seen always through some sort of Russia lens needs to come to an end. This tired, yet...
What the Soviets got right in Afghanistan
February 15, 2010By Jean MacKenzie Last summer I was invited to a friend's summer home outside of Kabul for a "picnic." After negotiating unfamiliar roads and a series of dodgy villages where my fair hair and pale skin excited quite a bit of notice, we arrived...
Moldovan authorities releasing secret Soviet-era archival documents
February 10, 2010The Government released over 1,500 archival files of the Communist Party (CP) of the Soviet Union, as well as logs from meetings of the CP's Central Committee. Information from 1974-1984 is now available. Authorities plan to release every pre-1991 file...
Edvins Snore, Director of the Soviet Story, comes to Washington
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February 09, 2010Although he commented that he did not fully realize that travel time and public speaking would be a substantial part of his work with The Soviet Story (see trailer here), Director Edvins Snore was prepared to answer any question presented to him about...
Ukraine needs a president who can break the spell
February 05, 2010By Serhiy Hrabovsky No matter who is ultimately elected Ukrainian president in the February 7 runoff, the winner cannot become president of all Ukrainians. The mere fact of being elected will not make the winner president of all Ukrainians. Considerable...
The Soviet Story: A must see documentary
January 28, 2010By Robert McConnell In May, 2008, The Soviet Story premiered in the European Parliament where it now has been screened several times. Since then The Soviet Story has been screened on national television in 10 countries and has won several prestigious...
Barbed wires to be removed from Moldova-Romania border
January 14, 2010The barbed-wire lines, stretching for dozens of kilometers along the Moldo-Romanian border on the eastern bank of the Prut River, shall be dismantled and removed from the face of Earth before March 2010, as per the plan just approved by the Moldovan Government...
Soviet Discourse serves Russian elites, not ex-Soviet republics
December 09, 2009By Paul Goble Presenting the Russian Federation as the Soviet Union of today is “becoming ever more popular not only in Russia but also in the West,” a leading Moscow commentator says, but it does little to help Russia and the other...
CIS countries becoming West’s ‘cordon sanitaire’ to contain Russia
December 08, 2009By Paul Goble On December 8 is the 18th anniversary of the Beloveshchaya accords by which the leaders of the three Slavic republics agreed on the disintegration of the Soviet Union, but the most important meeting about the region on that date this...