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dle East: The End of America's Moment? NYT Russia vs. Europe Bill Keller December 15, 2013 -- The world needs Nelson Mandelas. Instead, it gets Vladimir Putins. As the South African hero was being sung to his grave last week, the Russian president was bullying neighboring Ukraine into a new customs union t

nion Lite, and consolidating his control of state-run media by creating a new Kremlin news agency under a nationalistic and homophobic hard-liner. Putin's moves were not isolated events. They fit into a pattern of behavior over the past couple of years that deliberately distances Russia from the soc

he world needs Nelson Mandelas. Instead, it gets Vladimir Putins. As the South African hero was being sung

in capturing Ukraine, but he could come to regret it. While he's looking to the past, he might linger over the experience of an earlier potentate, Josef Stalin, who annexed western Ukraine from Poland. As Szporluk points out, Stalin thought he was being clever, but he ended up doubling his problems: He bro

e coronavirus." Trump And Putin Discuss Coronavirus, Arms Control. Axios (7/23, Rummler, 521K) reports President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin "about the coronavirus pandemic and arms control on Thursday, the Kremlin announced and the White House later confirmed." Trump "reiterated his hope

se People To Change Communist Party. • Trump And Putin Discuss Coronavirus, Arms Control. • US Accuses

orts President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin "about the coronavirus pandemic and arms c

d the 80th anniversary of the Welles Declaration," which "condemned the occupation and annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by Soviet leader Josef Stalin." Greece Vows To Do "Whatever Necessary" In Dispute With Turkey. The AP (7/23, Gatopoulos, Fraser) reports Greece warned Thursday it "will do 'what

. To some, Ukraine has become the geopolitical faultline between the liberal democratic West and authoritarian, neo-imperial Russia under President Vladimir Putin. Foreign policy luminaries in Washington openly discuss the current state of affairs as a new Cold War. Beneath the political divisions of the pre

mpire, to find their fortune -- sometimes as hired muscle. The first major center of the "Rus" was at Kiev, established in the 9th century. In 988, Vladimir, a prince of the Kievan Rus, was baptized by a Byzantine priest in the old Greek colony of Khersonesos on the Crimean coast. His conversion marked t

an coast. His conversion marked the advent of Orthodox Christianity among the Rus and remains a moment of great nationalist symbolism for Russians. Putin invoked this older Vladimir in a speech last December when justifying his annexation of Crimea. Successive Mongol invasions beginning in the 13th c

. The years that followed would be even more traumatic: in the late 192os and early 1930s, Ukraine suffered heavily under the rule of Soviet despot Josef Stalin. A vast segment of Ukraine's rural population was displaced and dispossessed by Stalin's aggressive collectivization policies. A man-made famine in

e coronavirus." Trump And Putin Discuss Coronavirus, Arms Control. Axios (7/23, Rummler, 521K) reports President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin "about the coronavirus pandemic and arms control on Thursday, the Kremlin announced and the White House later confirmed." Trump "reiterated his hope

se People To Change Communist Party. • Trump And Putin Discuss Coronavirus, Arms Control. • US Accuses

orts President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin "about the coronavirus pandemic and arms c

d the 80th anniversary of the Welles Declaration," which "condemned the occupation and annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by Soviet leader Josef Stalin." Greece Vows To Do "Whatever Necessary" In Dispute With Turkey. The AP (7/23, Gatopoulos, Fraser) reports Greece warned Thursday it "will do 'what