Discusses Russia's political crisis. Boris Yeltsin's decree putting the country on an emergency footing; The Russian constitution; Popularity of Yeltsin; The Union of Russian Officers' opposition to Yeltsin; Struggle about who owns Russia; Powers given to Yeltsin by the People's Congress; More....
the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia. Born to a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye, Tobolsk governorate (now Tyumen oblast), Rasputin had a religious conversion experience after taking a pilgrimage to a monastery in 1897. He has...
in violation of WTO rules, the United Russia Party tabled a bill in the Duma to withdraw Russia from the World Trade Organization (WTO) so as not to have to fulfill unilaterally the commitments of the organization.
“We don’t want votes for Iran or Russia counted,” Kaardal said. “We don’t want to participate in an election with foreign interference.” “What do you have that establishes that there’s some Iranian influence over Pennsylvania’s overseas ballots?” asked Conner, an appointee of...
It's rare for any president to start such an address with foreign policy. But it helped him ding Donald Trump, who recently said he'd allow Russia to invade a NATO ally that didn't pay enough for its own defenses. Lead Art: President Joe Biden, flanked by Vice President Kamala Har...
In the mid-2000s, pressures from international climate policy (specifically the Kyoto protocol entering into force), a renewed political awareness for energy security issues (due to the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine) as well as the seeming stagnation of European integration (manifested in ...
Voting Rules Only writers who have not had their story told on the silver screen. There are already several good biography movies about writers. Truman Capote has had a couple films made about his life, including the Academy Award winning Capote, based on the author’s journey writing the tru...
The question is what will become the rules of the game for foreign policy at the global level when, as obviously now emerges, there are multiple major powers on the world scene. The 20th century era when the United States came to rule virtually alone is over. This project starts from the...
Ultimately, how South Africa will be impacted by the Pandemic Treaty will be determined by the quality of WHO's leadership. The elephant in the room is how it will respond to Russia's involvement as a member country. According to international law is Russia not legally bound to participate ...
who runs the goon fantasy league site and grew up in Russia playing pond hockey. Dimitri saw his first fight during a USSR-Canada Summit Series; at that very moment, he remembers, the sport was no longer just a chess match. It was a war. Ugly and strange and beautiful. And he couldn...