The often repeated refrain “we don’t want to be in another cold war” is nonsense - we are in one. And Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is a much more dangerous opponent than dozy old former head of state Leonid Brezhnev. However, the latest demonstration of this truth in Georgia is only a week old, [...]
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The new cold war era
Posted by Matt in August 19th, 2008 | no comment
Published in New Cold War, Russia, British Statesman, Cold-War, Dangerous Opponent, Deluge, Demonstration, Fermanagh, Head Of State, Ireland, Leonid Brezhnev, New Cold War, New Era, Overwhelming Crisis, Political Map, Russian Prime Minister, Steeples, Truth, Vladimir Putin, Winston Churchill, World Economy, World War
Back In the USSR?
Posted by Matt in July 14th, 2008 | no comment
Published in Russia, 1970s, Appointment, Back In The Ussr, Belarus, Crises, Demise, Economy, Leonid Brezhnev, Prime Minister, Record Oil Prices, Regime, Russia, Soviet Union, Tendencies, Ussr, Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin’s appointment this spring as prime minister of the symbolic “union” of Russia and Belarus was yet another example of the troubling similarities between today’s Russia and the other most stable and prosperous Russian regime of the past 80 years: Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union in the 1970s. That economy, too, was fueled by then-record [...]
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