Posted by Matt in July 14th, 2008 |
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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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Posted by Matt in June 3rd, 2008 |
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A group of German security and peace researchers warns that current armament tendencies may pose greater threats to the world than the Cold war did, a development for which the United States is mainly to blame.
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