Vladmir Putin forging ahead with vision of Eurasian empire – Times Online

Posted by Matt in March 10th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Europe, Russia, Ahead, Catastrophe, Collapse, Communist State, Empire Online, Empire Times, Empire Vision, EurasianEmpire, kremlin, New Empire, Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union is gradually being rebuilt as Vladimir Putin eyes a return to the Kremlin. The man who declared the collapse of the Communist state to be the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” appears determined to forge a new empire.
Vladmir Putin forging ahead with vision of Eurasian empire – Times Online

Russia May Be a BRIC, But It’s Really a PIG « Great Speculations – Forbes.com

Posted by Matt in February 14th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, AIDS, Bric, Decades, Diseases, Environmental Issues, Forbes, Hiv, Hiv Aids Epidemic, Murray Feshbach, National Calamity, Physical Health, Pig, Population Health, Proportions, Russia, Russian Population, Soviet Union, Speculations, Tragedy, Washington Post

The physical health of Russia is deteriorating at a rapid if not scary rate. Murray Feshbach of the Washington Post had this to say:
This is a tragedy of huge proportions – but not a particularly surprising one, at least to me. I followed population, health and environmental issues in the Soviet Union for decades, and [...]

Democracy’s decline: Crying for freedom | The Economist

Posted by Matt in January 31st, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, America East, Countries In Africa, Decline, Declines, Democracies, democracy, Economist, Erosion, Freedom In The World, Global American, honduras, Latin-America, Leaves, Lobby Group, Madagascar, Maldives, Middle East, Mozambique, Niger, Soviet Union

In its report entitled “Freedom in the World 2010: Global Erosion of Freedom”, the American lobby group found that declines in liberty occurred last year in 40 countries (in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and the ex-Soviet Union) while gains were recorded in 16. The number of electoral democracies went down by three, to [...]

BERMAN: Russia’s real threat? Failure – Washington Times

Posted by Matt in January 29th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Demographics, Russia, Bluster, Death Spiral, Decline, Estimates, Failure, kremlin, Midcentury, Muslim, Russia, Soviet Union, Successor State, Washington Times

Decline breeds new and perplexing dangers
… But behind all of the Kremlin’s contemporary geopolitical bluster, the successor state of the once-mighty Soviet Union is caught in a demographic and socioeconomic death spiral.
… Russia, in other words, is dying.
… By midcentury, according to official estimates, Russia will be more than 50 percent Muslim – and the [...]

An Israeli-Iranian Containment Breach | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in December 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Conflict, Iran, Israel, War, Analogy, Breach, Containment Policy, Cuban Missile Crisis, Doomsday, Explosive, Fingers, Foreign Policy, Iran, iranians, Israel, Nuclear Confrontation, Nuclear Standoff, Nuclear War, Soviet Union

Preventing nuclear war between Iran and Israel would be more difficult than it ever was to avoid a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Here’s why.
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But this historical analogy is dangerously misconceived. In reality, defusing an Israeli-Iranian nuclear standoff will be far more difficult than averting nuclear war during the Cuban [...]

Afghanistan: How The Soviet Union Almost Won | Foreign Affairs

Posted by Matt in December 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, War, Afghanistan, Cold-War, Decade, Foreign Affairs, Graveyard, Military Planners, Mujahideen, Policymakers, Soviet Union, Soviet Victory, Triumph, United States, War Afghanistan, War In Afghanistan

The Soviet Union came closer than many think to achieving its objectives in Afghanistan. How it almost managed to win — and why it ultimately did not — should serve as a lesson for U.S. policymakers today.
Could the Soviet Union have won its war in Afghanistan? Today, the victory of the anti-Soviet mujahideen seems preordained [...]

The end of the great deception – Telegraph

Posted by Matt in November 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Europe, Christopher Booker, communist, Constitution, Czech-Republic, Fall Of The Berlin Wall, Independent Sovereign State, Irony, National Government, News Last Week, News Week, Newspapers, Politician, Pravda, President Vaclav, Reincarnation, Soviet Union, Telegraph, Twenty Years, Vaclav Klaus

The EU has achieved the goal it has worked stealthily towards for so long – a supra-national government which is now beyond our recall, writes Christopher Booker
So the trap has snapped shut. It was somehow apt that the politician who finally let the EU get the constitution it has craved so long should [...]

Who should fear Russia’s new military doctrine? | ”RIA Novosti’ newswire

Posted by Matt in October 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military, Russia, Allies, Fear, Military Doctrine, Military Force, military news, New Addition, Newswire, Nuclear Strikes, Opponent, PreemptiveNuclearStrike, Provisions, Ria Novosti, Russia, Russian Citizens, Russian News, Soviet Union, Syria, Top News

Russia’s new military doctrine stipulates the use of preemptive nuclear strikes. Effectively, it can be used when and where necessary, and against any opponent.
In the past they have reserved the use of preemptive nuclear strikes to protect themselves and their allies,which includes Syria.
Who should fear Russia’s new military doctrine? Everyone.
Russia’s new military doctrine, which is [...]

Russia Ramps Up Oil Exports as OPEC Cuts Back – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in September 10th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Oil, Collapse, Crude Oil, Energy Ministry, Estimates, First Quarter, International Energy Agency, Market Share, Ministry Data, Oil Exports, opec, Opec Cuts, Opec Production, Prime Minister, putin, Ramps, Refined Products, Saudi-Arabia, Second Quarter, Soviet Union, Vladimir

Russia is surpassing Saudi Arabia in oil exports for the first time since the Soviet Union’s collapse as Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin exploits OPEC production cuts to gain market share.
Exports of crude oil and refined products from Russia rose to 7.4 million barrels a day in the second quarter, from 7.25 million in the [...]

Mass firings as Russia reforms bloated military – BostonHerald.com

Posted by Matt in August 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, 10 Years, Air Force Base, Early Retirement, Face, Jobs, Mass Firings, Military Officers, moscow, Russia, Soviet Union

Kulikov did a series of assignments across the Soviet Union and spent the past 10 years as head of security at the Air Force base in Kubinka, 40 miles west of Moscow.
But today, he is one of 200,000 military officers who face early retirement, as Russia conducts a sweeping reform that will eliminate the jobs [...]