Daniel Chirot, "What Happened in Eastern Europe in 1989?" in Daniel Chirot, ed., The End of Leninism and the Decline of the Left (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991); Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993); Timothy Garton Ash, The ...
Lavrov, once again, pointed to the role being played by the ever-self-aggrandized Le Petit Roi, Emmanuel Macron, right up there with the United States: “Macron clearly saw in the developments an opportunity to realize the threat of Ukraine dealing Russia a strategic blow, a mantra NATO lea...
I used to tell people that I loved Russia, because I do. I think everybody has a country not their own that they’re powerfully drawn to; Russia is mine. I can’t explain the attraction, only observe its symptoms going back to childhood, such as listening over and over to Prokofiev’...
His efforts delivered the alliance into the swamp of Bosnia’s political contradictions. The Bosnian Serbs retreated only partially, and the “or else” never happened. Soon enough, the Bosnian Serbs, with help from the United Nations, were effectively ordering around an impotent NATO. “He was...
—You look happy. What has happened? FIFA World Cup? —Everyone Russia to win the match, and they won. A. expected B. hoped C. wished 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 expect sb. to do sth. 希望某人做某事。—你看起来很开心。发生了什么事?国际足联世界杯?—每个人都期望俄罗斯赢得这场比赛,...
(FEB 4) On Friday, January 31st at the International Boxing Center in Moscow, Russia, International Boxing Organization (IBO) super flyweight champion Angelina “Barbie” Lukas of Kazakhstan won a non-title bout against Ayisat Oriyomi of Nigeria in an event titled "IBA Champions’ Night." Ori...
Alexander Berkman provides an excellent overview of what had happened in Russia after the October Revolution: "The elective system was abolished, first in the army and navy, then in the industries. The Soviets of peasants and workers were castrated and turned into obedient Communist Committees, wit...
I don’t have nearly the time or the space to cover the sequence of events in its entirety, but it’s important to understand that Russia’s eventual hyperinflation and 1998 default is actually rooted in the break-up of the USSR which occurred in 1991. The dissolution of the USSR was th...
What happened this week to heighten tensions? On Monday, Putin formally recognized the contested eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as republics. Widely viewed as a signal that a full-scale invasion was imminent, Biden declared it“the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.” ...
Phi, owned by Russian businessman Sergei Naumenko, moored in London’s Canary Wharf© Cian Oba-Smith Yet more than two years on from the start of the war, the future of these superyachts remains unresolved. Once prized trophies in the west’s co-ordinated response to Russia’s aggression...