Epstein Secrets

case that countries like the United States have no right to lec- ture others on democracy, and that perhaps all elec- tions are equally flawed. The Kremlin's chief propagan- dist described the 2016 U.S. election as "so horribly noxious that it only engenders disgust towards what is still inexplicably c

a back seat to security concerns, or to policy conces- sions aimed at maintaining good relations with Russia. Prior to the saber rattling from the Kremlin, Estonia had an economy with one of Europe's higher rates of VNAvireedomhoustorg 49 EFTA00804773 BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, an

MOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians In May 2014, Putin signed a new law that criminalized the purposeful distortion of the Soviet Union's role in World War II. It could easily be applied to historians who, for example, criticize Stalin's Great Terror and its decimation of the militar

the Cold War is that military superiority, particularly nuclear superiority, matters. During the Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower administrations, the Kremlin's thinking was dominated by the knowledge that the U.S.'s arsenal could obliterate the Soviet Union. In those days, the U.S. could launch hundreds

crisis but its own. EFTA00707096 Russia, under Vladimir Putin, is a spoiling power above all, still driven by the notion that, as he once put it, the Soviet Union's collapse was "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." Its ambitions lie in turning back the clock. China, the heir apparent to nobo

e relationship with Ukraine. EFTA00662755 In an April 17 interview, Putin declared, "We have reached a point beyond which we cannot retreat." The Kremlin's determination to stop the advance of Euro-Atlantic institutions was signaled in a smaller campaign against Georgia in 2008. Now Putin also implie

ith Soviet subsidies, and stem any risk of contagion within the Soviet bloc, which proved an immense economic burden that eventually contributed to the Soviet Union's final economic crisis. In Putin's case, as in Khrushchev's, short-term gains could boomerang into long-term disasters. CYNTHIA A. ROBERTS teaches

e New York Post <https://nypost.corn/2020/11/10/russia-reveals-spy-stole-from-white-house-nato-during- careed> (11/10, Moore, 4.57M) reports that the Kremlin is claiming Yuri Shevchenko "posed as an artist and stole secrets from the White House, FBI, CIA and NATO during a 32-year career that earned him th

lated to the scandal that led to his downfall." McCarrick's rise in the church "attracted the attention of the KGB," which "led to an encounter with the Soviet Union's intelligence service." The report said the FBI "asked him to serve as a counterintelligence asset with respect to the activities of the KGB." Russi

ties of the KGB." Russia Says Now Deceased Spy Stole From White House, NATO For 32 Years. The New York Post (11/10, Moore, 4.57M) reports that the Kremlin is claiming Yuri Shevchenko "posed as an artist and stole secrets from the White House, FBI, CIA and NATO during a 32- year career that earned him t

ated to the scandal that led to his downfall." McCarrick's rise in the church "attracted the attention of the KGB," which "led to an encounter with the Soviet Union's intelligence service." The report said the FBI "asked him to serve as a counterintelligence asset with respect to the activities of the KGB." Russ

nd negotiate a transition with the opposition. The regime responded yesterday by blasting this "blatant interference in its internal affairs." The Kremlin's support makes it harder to ease Mr. Assad out peacefully in Damascus. But perhaps Mr. Putin's loyalty can be explained by the fact that he faces

vil war. But he still has a few friends in low places. The Iranians aren't giving up on him, and in Moscow Vladimir Putin won't abandon the son of the Soviet Union's favorite Arab tyrant, Hafez Assad. Far from it. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week rejected any talk of new U.N. sanctions or arms em

nd what costs he's willing to bear to get it. Biden himself has alternately called Putin a "killer" who leads a "paranoid" regime and dissected the Kremlin master's decision-making as driven by fears of losing control at home and eroding influence abroad. Biden has also (wisely) said he's "not confide

believe — some pretty bizarre stuff, even with the resources of what is supposed to be a world-class spy service. I don't mean his 2005 claim that the Soviet Union's collapse was "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century, or his July 2021 EFTA00162741 essay arguing Ukrainians and Russians wer

B." EFTA01658782 Russia Says Now Deceased Spy Stole From White House, NATO For 32 Years. The New York Post (11/10, Moore, 4.57M) reports that the Kremlin is claiming Yuri Shevchenko "posed as an artist and stole secrets from the White House, FBI, CIA and NATO during a 32- year career that earned him t

ated to the scandal that led to his downfall." McCarrick's rise in the church "attracted the attention of the KGB," which "led to an encounter with the Soviet Union's intelligence service." The report said the FBI "asked him to serve as a counterintelligence asset with respect to the activities of the KGB." EFTA