Back in the USSR -- Putin on the Blitz?Kathy Malloy
But the national scope and legalistic veneer of the ‘system’ appear to have been exceptional. The authorities’ preferred method of dealing with citizens’ wastes has been incineration. The first garbage-incineration plant in the USSR appeared in Moscow in 1979. Three more were built subsequently...
Canada and America's closest allies in Western and southern Europe. On the other side of the Iron Curtain were the Soviet Union and its allies in Central and Eastern Europe, including the former East Germany.
Pocketing massive credit, it was the moment he moved from the Palmyra stage to the world stage, his dream come true, a global player at last. Soviet ties to Syria go back to the 1970s when the USSR was Syria’s main economic partner and one of its strongest political and military ...
Similarly, Putin has been quoted saying,“The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century.” He may not want to recreate the USSR per se, but it’s clear he wants most of the nearby countries directly or indirectly under his thumb — just as ...
All of the plans toward that end were fastidiously laid by these stakeholders, each of whom had the greatest interest in exploiting the vast wealth of the Russian Motherland. The fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the USSR were not the spontaneous series of momentous events that the ...
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are meant to be one of Putin’s crowning achievements, but with corruption and horrible discrimination and violence against gays on the rise, Garry Kasparov calls for a boycott by corporate sponsors and world leaders. Bu
the USSR, then it is likely that conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo could easily erupt. Serbia could decide to follow Russia’s example and make a military move against Kosovo’s north under the banner of ‘protecting its Serbian minority there.’ Whereas in ...
“As for military affairs, even after the dissolution of the USSR and losing a considerable part of its capabilities, today’s Russia remains one of the most powerful nuclear states,” Putin said, in his pre-invasion address early Thursday. “Moreover, it has a certain ad...
If he could go back in time, Vladimir Putin's mission would be to prevent the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.