Soviet Union

Mitt Romney's Russia

The Harvard Crimson | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Russia, Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney Russia, United States Russia, Soviet Union, Russia Policy, College News

Despite Romney's determination that the anchor of the former Soviet Union remains a serious threat to American freedom, the reality suggests otherwise.

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Propaganda, Public Diplomacy and the Smith-Mundt Act

John Brown | Posted 05.26.2012

Propaganda is an instrument of war used by a government, primarily but not exclusively, against a present or possibly future enemy, and a democratic government should not propagandize its own people.

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Should NATO Be Handling World Security?

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Russia, Peace Action, Nato Summit 2012, Nato, Military Spending, Libya War, War, United Nations, UN Security Council, Soviet Union, China, Afghanistan War, World News

There are real international security problems, and some entity should certainly be addressing them. But is NATO the proper entity?

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Flailing NATO? Big Questions Surround Obama's Showcase Chicago Summit

William Bradley | Posted 05.20.2012

There's a lot of confusion about the ballyhooed NATO Summit in Chicago, intended as a big boost to Obama's geopolitical leadership, showcased in his hometown. Here are some big outstanding questions about NATO's future.

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Soviet Chemical Plant Threat to Ukrainian City

Ben Barber | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Ukraine, Tnt, Blacksmith, Toxic Chemicals, Gorlovka Chemical Plant, Gorlovka, Chemical Plant, Soviet Union, Green News

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, it left behind in the Ukrainian city of Gorlovka an abandoned chemical factory awash with leaking drums and pipes containing TNT and other dangerous chemicals.

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George Soros: Eurozone Crisis, 'Similar To Soviet Union,' Has Potential To Destroy EU

Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, European Union Collapse, George Soros, Video, Collapse of the Soviet Union, Soros, Eurozone Crisis, European Union, Soviet Union, Business News

Billionaire investor George Soros is sounding the European alarm again. “Europe is similar to the Soviet Union in the way that the euro crisis h...

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Fukushima's Nuclear Nightmare Is Far From Over (or the Disturbingly Deadly Act of Placing Profits Before People)

Vivian Norris | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Nuclear Waste, Sarkozy, Fukushima, Cesium, Mitsuhei Marata, Mox, Hydrogen, Earthquake, Daichi, Fuel Pool, Fire, Radiation, Explosion, Npr, Mikhail Gorbachev, Solar Energy, Tsunami, Reactor, Fission, Plutonium, Reactor 4, Uranium, Areva, Strontium, Cancer, Japan, Arnie Gunderson, Chernobyl Gorbachevnuclear Energy, Soviet Union, Business News

Why does Fukushima still matter? Because no matter what TEPCO or the authorities have claimed, the reactors and the fuel pools are unstable.

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First Man In Space Celebrated 51 Years After Historic Mission

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Esa, Yuri Gagarin Anniversary, Soviet Space Program, Sputnik, Space, Yuri Gagarin, First Man to Orbit the Earth, First Human in Space, Cold War, Vostok 1, First Man in Space, Space Race, Soviet Union, Video, Science News

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 04/12/2012 12:51 AM EDT on SPACE.com For more than five decades, humans have been suiting up and riding rockets t...

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Dictator's Widow Brands Regime's Victims 'Criminals'

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Communism, Video, Iron Curtain, Gdr, Eastern Europe, Stasi, Margot Honecker, Erich Honecker, Berlin Wall, Cold War, German Democratic Republic, Fall of Berlin Wall, Soviet Union, World News

Margot Honecker, the widow of East Germany's communist dictator Erich Honecker, has given a defiant interview in which she defends her late husband an...

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Making New Friends In Russia

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Photography, Bertien Van Manen, Female Photographer, Nan Goldin, Female Artists, Slidepollajax, Robert Frank, Dutch Photography, Soviet Union, Video, Arts News

Bertien van Manen's exhibition "Let's sit down before we go" features 60 photos taken from 1991 to 2009, when the photographer travelled throughout Ru...

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Blowback, TINA-Style

John Feffer | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: There Is No Alternative, Democracy, Arab Spring, Free Market, Cold War, US China Relations, Dictatorship, Soviet Union, World News

The very ideology that the United States assumed would defeat all comers has in fact been turned against the United States. Liberal democracy contains within it the very seeds of the American empire's destruction. Call it blowback, TINA-style.

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Thinking the Unthinkable: Iran, Israel, Afghanistan

William Bradley | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Russia, Bunker Buster, World News, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Taliban, Israel, Soviet Union, Video, Iran War Hype, World News

Those who want a pre-emptive war, rather than a strategy of containment, have a very high hurdle of credibility to cross, not the least of it because they've offered little but hysteria.

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Cuba's Modern Bourgeoisie: The Jogging Class

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Havana, Cuba, Soviet Union, Cuba Wealthy, World News

Compared to the rest of Cuba, 5th Avenue stands as a rarity. And not because such urban beauty is scarce on this Island.

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Russia's Self-Marginalization

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Putin Russia, European Union, United States, Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, Soviet Union, World News

The role Russia, and to a lesser extent China, is currently playing in the Middle East is destructive and self-defeating. Russia's obstructionist approach is reminiscent of the Soviet Union Cold War mentality based on a zero-sum game.

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Medals for Sale

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Kremlin, Cuba, Soviet Union, Military Decorations, Military Ranks, World News

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War Is Over. What Next?

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Egypt, Dictator, Tunisia, War, Yemen, Democracy, Iraq, Diplomacy, Soviet Union, Bahrain, America, Iraq War, Iran, Loyalty, Human Rights, Arab Spring, Chris Weigant, Middle East, Revolution, Saudi Arabia, Secular, Oil, Libya, Israel, Ally, Islamist, Maliki, Stability, Politics News

To mark the milestone of the last American troops to leave Iraq, I'd like to take a wider view and look at the entire region, post-Saddam and post-Arab Spring.

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The Prophet Is Dead: Juche and the Future of North Korea

Amarnath Amarasingam | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Nationalism, Dprk, Ussr, Kim Jong Il, Crimes Against Humanity, The Juche Idea, Religion, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, North Korea Nuclear Program, Revolution, Kim Il Sung, Humanitarian Crisis, Religion and Politics, Socialism, North Korea, Soviet Union, Religion News

Little has been written about North Korea's driving state ideology - the "Juche idea" - and the clues it may hold for predicting the nature of post-Kim Jong Il North Korea

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WATCH: Soviet Factory Goes Technicolor

Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Russia, Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant, Video, Video Art, Soviet Architecture, Time-Lapse Video, Sverdlovsk, Sasha Aleksandrov, Soviet Union, Arts News

Overcoming the overbearing blandness of Soviet era aesthetics can quickly turn into a daunting task, but a new time lapse video by Sasha Aleksandrov s...

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On Libya and Liberty

Carol Smaldino | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Puppets, Liberty, Naziism, Gaddafi, Germans, Corsica, Freedom, Russians, Libya, Democracy, Soviet Union, Sweden, Politics News

When we vote or decide or discuss or debate, we are supposed to be informed. However, if we so often rely on superstitions and belief systems that don't work, how is there any truth at all?

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Cai Guo-Qiang's Latest Blockbuster Comes To...Industrial Ukraine?

VernissageTV | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Cai Guo-Qiang, UK Arts, Art Openings, Vernissage, Factory, Installation Art, Video, Gunpowder, Vernissagetv, Drawing, Contemporary Art, Ukraine, Soviet Union, Donetsk, Izolyatsia, Arts News

Izolyatsia is a new art center in the industrial city of Donetsk, Ukraine. The center just opened with a solo exhibition of Cai Guo-Qiang. The show ti...

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Georgia's 'Soviet Riviera' Region Elects President

AP | RUSLAN KHASHIG and MIKHAIL METZEL | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Soviet Riviera, Abkhazians, Abkhazia, Abkhazia Elections, Georgia, Russia Georgia, Russia Georgia War, Abkhazia President, Soviet Union, World News

SUKHUMI, Georgia — Abkhazia – a once-prosperous tourist destination dubbed the Soviet Riviera – is electing a new president Friday, ...

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PHOTOS: Ukrainians Mark Independence Day With Fierce Protests

AP | By MARIA DANILOVA | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Ukraine Independence Day, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, World News

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Thousands of opposition activists on Wednesday protested the arrest of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, clouding official...

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WATCH: Soviet-Made Cars Still The Rage In Cuba

Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Soviet Cars, Lada, Cold War, Cuba, Soviet Union, Ussr, Cuba Communists, Video, World News

Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, one reminder of the U.S.S.R.'s link to Cuba can still be found on the roads of Havana: an abundan...

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Gorbachev: Don't Reelect Putin

AP | By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Russia, Video, United Russia, Gorbachev Putin, Vladimir Putin, Russia Politics, Gorbachev, Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia Elections, Soviet Union, World News

MOSCOW -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized the government on Wednesday for taking Russia backward and said that the nation needs free...

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Associated Press: America Is Dead -- Funeral Plans Under Debate

Mark Steinberg | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Italy, Bank of China, Debt, Humor, World Bank, Obama, Soviet Union, China, Sarajevo, Potato Chips, Funeral, Swim Fins, Unemployment, Venezuela, Satire, Vietnam War, Cantor, Atomic Bomb, Boehner, Archduke Ferdinand, Bachmann, Amtrai, Gwynedd, Deheubarth, Powys, Comedy News

It was announced today that the United States of America, also known as the U.S., U.S.A. and the U.S. of A., died during the last week of August 2011 ...

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