Tag: russia
member name: Charlie D.
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June 08, 2007 06:16 PM EDT --
Vladimir Putin followed up on George Bush's "invitation"
to "share" in Europe's missile defense by offering an
alternate location - Azerbaijan - to the proposed locations . . .
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June 09, 2007 02:30 AM EDT --
These excerpts appeared in a book by Terry Glavin
called The Sixth Extinction, Journeys Among the Lost
and Left Behind (2007), a book about what Glavin
calls "the Holocene extinction" . . .
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June 12, 2007 01:37 AM EDT --
One of my list members asked me today what
I thought about the Alexander Litvinenko case.
After looking up both the articles still another
list member pointed out to me earlier today . . .
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July 07, 2007 12:38 AM EDT --
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Mikhail Gorbachev reported under arrest, a committee removed him
and named as interim chief Vice President Gennadi Yanayev. The coup
has stunned the West, and brought calls for a general strike . . .
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August 16, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
The claim last week by a Russian submarine to “own”
the Arctic Ocean, and the North Pole, plus their stated
renewal of flying military missions with airplanes in
both a “spying” . . .
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September 15, 2007 06:17 PM EDT --
President Putin's dismissal of his entire government
just under three months before parliamentary elections
on 2 December was both startltling and unexpected.
His choice for Prime Minister was startling . . .
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July 07, 2007 12:21 AM EDT --
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Aleksandr Yakovlev was formally expelled from the CPSU yesterday. In
a statement after the action was taken, "Mr. Glasnost" reportedly
said that the Stalinists in the party were planning . . .
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July 07, 2007 12:52 AM EDT --
What follows is commentary and as much as I can offer of the
press conference offered by the "emergency committee" headed
by Gennadi Yanayev (a rather amazing and bizarre event).
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July 07, 2007 01:01 AM EDT --
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THe Soviet situation remains in flux. As I am cut off from the
networks, have no idea of what is being said at the computer
level, but it is 0630 in Moscow, and as yet, no word on whether
the . . .
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July 07, 2007 01:12 AM EDT --
This is a summary of the events of the USSR from a variety of sources
as best as I can read my notes.
Where to start ... OK, chronologically to the degree I can. This
morning, NPR reported that . . .
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July 07, 2007 01:36 AM EDT --
As our system was crashed from midnight to about 0830 this morning,
I could only sit on the sidelines, listen to news and think about the
events of the past few days. Here are a few reflections on the . . .
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July 07, 2007 02:09 AM EDT --
So much has happened in the past 48 hours that this report
does not pretend to cover all the ground it could.
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Today, a new power-sharing arrangement was announced in
Moscow, where Yeltsin . . .
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July 07, 2007 02:27 AM EDT --
"On the Remarks of George Kennan on McNeil/Lehrer 22 August, 1991"
I would preface this by saying that though about 85, Kennan
still stands as one of the premier Sovietologists in this . . .
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July 07, 2007 02:41 AM EDT --
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THe news continues to stun the brain, today's fall of the CPSU
and Gorbachev's resignation as General Secretary of the party
not even vaguely imaginable just a few months ago. . . .
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June 18, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
This book, recently published, is by Martin Sixsmith. It is
a sharply critical book about how Litvinenko's medical
situation was handled, in that he was originally diagnosed
with thallium poisoning, . . .
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July 29, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
Russia appears on a course that grows in
hostility towards the West, and leans to
greater and greater authoritarianism and
militarism at home. Many analyses seem
to suggest that Russia's boom . . .
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June 18, 2007 03:30 PM EDT --
The full title of this 2006 book by Matthew Carr, a
journalist and broadcaster, is The Infernal Machine,
A History of Terrorism from the Assassination of Tsar
Alexander II to Al-Qaeda. This is my 280th . . .
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June 06, 2007 12:16 AM EDT --
I've read one of these books, and am in the process
of reading the other five. All of them came from the
Glendale (AZ) library, I own none of them, and wish
I had all six.
The one I completed (yesterday) . . .
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