TweetNational leaders covet the opportunity to host the international event and multi-national corporations invest billions of dollars in advertising to its massive world-wide audience. Competing in glorious national stadiums and…
I was not around in 1972 to experience the dramatic and intense summit series between Canada and the Soviet Union, however I have read a lot about the event and…
Rumblings out of Russia point to a possible imminent release of jailed Pussy Riot members Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. According to Russian media reports, the Kremlin is planning to…
RUSSIA IN REVOLT: THE FIRST CRACK IN TSARIST POWER ‘Russia in Revolt: The First Crack in Tsarist Power’ by David Floyd. Macdonald Library of the 20th Century, Macdonald and Co.,…
RUSSIA IN REVOLT: THE FIRST CRACK IN TSARIST POWER 'Russia in Revolt: The First Crack in Tsarist Power' by David Floyd. Macdonald Library of the 20th Century, Macdonald and Co.,…
RUSSIA IN REVOLT: THE FIRST CRACK IN TSARIST POWER 'Russia in Revolt: The First Crack in Tsarist Power' by David Floyd. Macdonald Library of the 20th Century, Macdonald and Co.,…
RUSSIA IN REVOLT: THE FIRST CRACK IN TSARIST POWER ‘Russia in Revolt: The First Crack in Tsarist Power’ by David Floyd. Macdonald Library of the 20th Century, Macdonald and Co.,…
In the Fall of 2013 a Russian documentary filmmaker contacted numerous LGBTQ activists and filmmakers in Canada and the United States with whom they had worked with in previous years…
Scott Lively wants to take away LGBT Russians’ rainbow. Lively, the self-described “human rights consultant” who gladly takes credit for lobbying Russia, Uganda and others to ramp up their anti-LGBT…
Last evening I watched a program on CBC on Sochi Olympics 2014. The corruption in Russia is incredible. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Jean-Claude Killy, Chairman of the…
A few inflatable boats delivering a handful of protesters to a massive Russian oil rig in the Arctic and, according to Vlad Putin, that’s piracy for which they could be…
I love it—war with words rather than guns. Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times laying out his views on international law…
The Reluctant World Sheriff Right now, despite Senator Kerry waving a piece of paper after the negotiation session he had with Russia’s Foreign Minister, the wheels seem to be coming…
Here is a picture from Russia. SHORING UP: A man walked near sandbags that were piled up Sunday in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia, to protect the area from flooding. (Bobulev Sergey/ITAR-TASS/Zuma Press)WSJ
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after speaking to the media at the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, Sept.…
“The United States and Russia struck a deal Saturday under which Syria will allow its stockpile of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by next year — easing a…
I’ve always thought of Vladimir V. Putin as an amoral ex-KGB thug. And I still do. But I have to admit he wrote a rather progressive op-ed piece in the…
Russia asked Syria to put chemical weapons stockpile under international control and Assad has agreed to that. Will that stop U.S. strike against Syria? “Syria welcomes a Russian proposal to…
Russia’s in. China’s in. The United States is in. Iran is in, so is Israel. Everyone else within pipeline distance might soon be in also. It’s still about Syria, sort…
Mecklenburg was small and weak and needed a powerful protector; marriage to a Russian princess would bring the Tsar’s support. Knowing that the two daughters of Tsar Ivan V were…
