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The Russians, Back in Cuba With Their MasterCards

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Ussr, The Soviet Union, Russia, Collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Russia Cuba Relationship, Russia Cuba, World News
Yoani Sanchez

They walk among us and no one screams in fear, "The Soviets are back!" Because it's clear to everyone that they've returned and, swimming at our beaches or drinking a mojito in some tourist bar, they are -- clearly -- Russians.

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Picturing Putin's Russia

Mark D. Steinberg | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Russia, Putinism, Ussr, Vladimir Putin, Russian Politics, Putin, Russia Protests, Russia Elections, World News
Mark D. Steinberg

Laughing mockery of power may let off steam. But it may also be a sign of something consequential: that many Russians, audacious and without fear, feel that Putinism has become an embarrassment and a hindrance.

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Hearkening Back to the USSR

Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Russia, Eduardo Saverin, Citizenship, U.S. Citizenship, Eduardo Saverin u.s. Citizenship, Ussr, Renouncing Citizenship, Emigration, Immigration, Politics News
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar

The U.S. must make itself attractive to its citizens, rather than penalize them for wanting to leave for more attractive destinations like Singapore.

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Atomic Rate Rigging and the New China Syndrome

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Peaceful Atom, Solartopia, Ussr, Fukushima, Vogtle, V.C. Summer, China Syndrome, Japan, Atomic Power, Rate Rape, Atomic Energy, Nuclear Renaissance, Green Power, Georgia, South Carolina, Russia, India, Chernobyl, Koodankulam, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Small wonder the death knell of new U.S. nukes may be upon us. Two reactors proposed for Florida will now, say its would-be builders, cost $24 billio...

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What Killed Lenin?

AP | ALEX DOMINGUEZ | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Video, Ussr, Lenin Death, World History, Vladimir Lenin, History of the World, Lenin, What Killed Lenin, World News

By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press BALTIMORE — Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contra...

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Chavez in Cuba? Or Cuba in Chavez?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Ussr, Raul Castro, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Miraflores Palace, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Glastnost, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Hugo Chavez has just left Cuba amid infinite speculation, and some alarming future scenarios are being woven around his health.

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Benedict XVI, A Different Pope, Will Come to a Different Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, Karol Wojtyla, Eastern Europe, Havana, Ussr, Cuba, Joseph Ratzinger, Soviet Block, Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, World News
Yoani Sanchez

The Catholics are preparing their liturgies and their pomp to receive Benedict XVI, while others wonder if his arrival will bring some significant transformation in the political or social situation of the nation.

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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
Amarnath Amarasingam

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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Georgia: The Ultimate European Back Door

Rick Steves | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Georgia, Tbilisi, Rick Steves, Europe Travel, Eastern Europe, Ussr, Slidepollajax, Wine, Georgia Travel, Europe, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Rick Steves

Where are all the tourists?

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Nobel Peace Prize Controversies, Past And Present

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Russia, Jailed Chinese Dissident, Ussr, Martin Luther King Jr., Democracy, Nobel Peace Prize, Cold War, United Nations @Y:World, Democractic Nations, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize, Human Rights, African American Rights, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Adolf Hitler, Slidepollajax, Black Rights, Oslo, World News

Congratulations from across the world this morning, as the Nobel Committee announced the laureates of its Peaze Price in Oslo today. The Committee rew...

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Back in the USSR (You Don't Know How Lucky You Are)

Ken Blackwell | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Russian Politics, Dmitry Medvedev, Ussr, World News
Ken Blackwell

Vladimir Putin's Russian nickname would not be Vlad, but Vova. And the Russian word for what he is is vozhd. That's what Russians call the Boss. And Boss he is, to be sure.

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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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The Mongol Rally: Entering Turkmenistan for Dummies

Grif Peterson | Posted 10.13.2011

Read More: Asia Travel, Passports, Ussr, Turkmenistan, Immigration, Turkmen, Mongol Rally, Travel Blogs, Turkmenistan Travel, Travel News
Grif Peterson

Before disembarking, the first mate announced that the doctor would like to inspect all the Americans. There were 8 of us, too many for the doctor to be bothered with.

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Somalia: Henry Kissinger and Me, Circa 1980

Richard Walden | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Drought, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Famine, Gerald Ford, Somalia, War, Ussr, Operation USA, Ethiopia, President Mohammad Siad Barre, Operation California, World News
Richard Walden

At the time of Ronald Reagan's election, Somalia was sagely thought by Henry Kissinger to be ready for a tour de force, however off our collective radar screen it was at that time.

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Found in Space: 50 Years After Yuri Gagarin

Meg Waite Clayton | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Cosmodrome, Jfk Speech, Baikonur, Jfk, U.S.S.R., Space, Yuri Gagarin, Lunar Landing, World News
Meg Waite Clayton

Fifty years ago today, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to orbit the Earth. During the flight, 190 miles above the globe, he sang to himself.

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Goldman Sachs Considers Helping Russia Attract Foreign Capital

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Kremlin, Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Investment Fund, Dmitry Medvedev, Ussr, Business News

MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev has held talks with Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein about the bank's possible participation in a direct i...

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The Domino Theory Strikes Again: Who's Next?

Eric Lurio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ali Khamanei, Eastern Europe, Civil War, Tunisia, East Germany, Egypt, Algeria, Revolution, Ussr, Iran, Solidarrity Movement, Ahmadinejad, Gorbachev, Dictators, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, World News
Eric Lurio

The next regime to go is Algeria. You may ask, "How do you know this? Didn't the police there just beat the crap out of the demonstrators a day or two...

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Hunger for Change

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Riots, Fao, Eqypt, Lester Brown, Police, Tunisia, Food Prices, Ussr, Casablanca, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Food and Agricultural Organization, Politics News
Craig K. Comstock

Sharply rising food prices have often meant trouble for governments, especially when people expect better and the cost of food is a big fraction of a...

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Exhibition Spotlight: Artist Dimitri Kozyrev Explores Ruin, Geometry, And Stalin

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exhibition Spotlight, Stalin, El Lissitzsky, New York City, Ussr, Dimitri Kozyrev, ARt Exhibition, Painting, Lost Edge, Geometry, Painterly, Suprematism, Benrimon Contemporary, Avant-Garde, Malevich, Last One, Slidefullscreen, Landscape, Arts News

WHAT: Last One WHO: Dimitri Kozyrev WHEN: March 10, 2011 - April 1, 2011 Opening reception on March 10, 2011 from 5-9pm WHERE: Benrimon Cont...

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After 80 Years Russians Wonder: Is It Time To Bury Vladimir Lenin

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lenin Buried, Russia, Lenin Body, Soviet Union Lenin, Lenin Popularity, Bury Lenin's Body, Ussr, Lenin, Bury Lenin, Soviet Union, Russia Lenin, Leninism, World News

MOSCOW — A new poll sponsored by the pro-Kremlin party is asking Russians to vote on whether it's time to bury Vladimir Lenin. The embalmed bod...

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New START Is About More Than Russia

Craig Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, International Law, Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear Proliferation, Start, Npt, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obma, Reagan, Ussr, Russa, Politics News
Craig Martin

New START is about much more than relations with Russia. It is about reestablishing U.S. leadership in the global effort to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons in the world.

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Nobel Peace Prize Controversies, Past And Present

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Democracy, Al Gore, Jailed Chinese Dissident, Ussr, Nobel Peace Prize, United Nations @Y:World, Cold War, Democractic Nations, Civil Rights, Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize, African American Rights, Oslo, Martin Luther King Jr., Slidepollajax, Russia, Jimmy Carter, Adolf Hitler, Black Rights, World News

With jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and his family barred from accepting his Nobel Peace Prize at the Dec. 10 ceremony in Oslo, the Nobel Prize c...

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Afghanistan Is About Perpetual War

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1984, Rome, George Orwell, War, Ussr, Perpetual War, Obama, A People's History of the United States, Peace, Norman Solomon, Athens, The Bomb, David Swanson, Howard Zinn, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Persia, Politics News
Harvey Wasserman

The war in Afghanistan is about perpetual war, not Afghanistan. It's about preventing democracy in the United States, not bringing it to Southwest ...

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Balanced Capitalism

Dr. Vladimir A. Masch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adam Smith, US Economy, William-Baumol, Milton Friedman, South Korea, Ussr, Paul Krugman, Capitalism, Recession, Economic Models, Soviet Union, Paul Samuelson, Warren Buffett, Larry Summers, Irma Adelman, Business News
Dr. Vladimir A. Masch

The sooner we stop coddling -just for sake of political correctness- the unbalanced and dysfunctional global economic order, the better will be our chances of surviving the crisis.

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NATO Future Raises Questions: U.S. And Europe Rethink Role Of Cold War Alliance

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nato, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, U.S., Russia, Cold War, Europe, Eu, Afghanistan, Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Ussr, World News

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is heading to a meeting of NATO ministers in Estonia at a time when the 61-year-old organ...

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