Category: CIS
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Putin Uses Victory Day Speech To Laud “Participants” in the Ukraine SMO, 9 May 2023
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2023, spoke at the military parade in Moscow on Red Square to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany on that day in 1945. Using the May 9 celebration as a springboard, Putin in his 10-minute speech brought to the fore the “Special…
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Book Review: Autopsy of an Empire – The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Jack Matlock, Jr.
Jack Matlock served as U.S. Ambassador to Russia during the final years of the Reagan administration and the first year of the Bush I administration, from 1987 to 1991. During that time, according to his account, despite the many duties falling to him to perform in Moscow, he managed to visit each of the union…
The Dragon is Slain 