Post Soviet States

"We used to take refugees because they were Jewish. Now we take them because we're Jewish."

Edit Vox 20 Jun 2016

Eastern European Jews in the first half of the 20th century, then Jews fleeing the Soviet Union during the Cold War ... In fact, the presumptive Republican nominee for president is calling on the US to prevent Muslims from arriving in the US — and several governors are responding to rising Islamophobia by trying to keep some, or all, refugees out of their states....

Down Syndrome Kids Are Still Made to Feel ‘Undesirable’ in Russia

Edit Newsweek 20 Jun 2016

The local meeting was aired by Russian state-controlled TV after disability campaigners in the city of Krasnoyarsk sparked uproar when they applied for permission to install a wheelchair ramp at the entrance to a residential building due to house an inclusive child-development center ... For those children with Down syndrome who reside in often violent state orphanages, life is bleak....

Insider's guide to Tbilisi: protests, free wine and salted fish

Edit The Guardian 20 Jun 2016

A graduate of Tbilisi’s State Academy of Arts, Eteri Chkadua is known for her vivid and often outlandish portraits, in which minute attention is lavished on faces and facial expressions ... At the time, however, the then-Soviet government regarded her paintings produced at the State Art Academy as government property, and refused to allow them to leave the country ... A photo posted by Mariam Sitchinava (@mariamsitchinava) on....

His voyage to America

Edit Indian Express 20 Jun 2016

India had always been keen on good relations with the US and it was the US which had declared nonalignment immoral and branded India as pro-Soviet ... As a stated principle of government policy, Modi’s speech to the Congress can be characterised as a doctrine, but a doctrine should encompass a global vision covering other countries and regions of the world ... Indira Gandhi did much the same in 1971 with regard to the Soviet Union....

Yes, so Ireland was occupied - get over it and look at how the invaders spared us a worse fate

Edit Belfast Telegraph 20 Jun 2016

In the 16th century, after shattering defeats, it was divided into three parts, one a Turk-occupied province of the Ottoman Empire; another, semi-independent for a time, gradually became its vassal state; and the third was ruled by the Austrian Habsburgs ... Post-war, communists were responsible for the Red Terror and royalists for the White Terror....

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Edit DNA India 20 Jun 2016

It unified everyone under a common banner of fighting for the nation, irrespective of state, caste or religion ... In a bipolar world, with the United States and the Soviets carving out their spheres, India chose to ‘differentiate’ itself by spearheading the Non-aligned movement. It chose a path of development that was a hybrid of Soviet state planning and Western-style democracy....

The Daily Vertical: Head Games And Sanctions (Transcript)

Edit Radio Free Europe 20 Jun 2016

Now Ivanov, of course, doesn't really believe that. He's not that delusional. What he is doing is playing an old Soviet head game. The game is called "reflexive control," a doctrine developed by Soviet military strategists back in the 1960s that aims to compel adversaries to behave in a manner advantageous to Moscow ... ....

3 Billionth Ton of Crude Pumped Over the Southern String of Druzhba Oil Pipeline (OAO AK Transneft)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016

(Source. OAO AK Transneft) ... The northern string goes via the territory of Belarus (Polotsk) to the Baltic states, namely to the ports of Būtingė and Ventspils ... Construction commenced on 18 December 1959 after CMEA member states had agreed on deliveries of Soviet crude to the countries of the socialist commonwealth ... (noodl. 34175422) ....

Brexit - European history hovers close to reverse gear

Edit Yahoo Daily News 20 Jun 2016

If Britain votes to leave the European Union, it will likely start a process of fragmentation of the political and security structures on which the post-World War Two and post-Cold War European order was built ... the struggle to overthrow Soviet-imposed communist rule in eastern Europe and join the EU, was both a witness and an actor in that history....

Leadership Lessons From Attila the Hen

Edit The American Spectator 20 Jun 2016

A quarter of a century ago, Margaret Thatcher threw the British House of Commons into an uproar when she mocked the concept of a United States of Europe in no more than three words ... Ironically enough, the EU was taking shape just as another super state (the Soviet Union) was falling apart. A new super-state centered in Brussels — Thatcher thought — ......

Dionne: Is the gun lobby finally cornered?

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 20 Jun 2016

WASHINGTON • A political crisis is usually preceded by an intellectual and moral crisis. Dominant ideas that once seemed to hang together lose their hold when they are exposed as contradictory and incoherent. Similarly, moral claims made on behalf of a worldview can, gradually or suddenly, come to be seen as empty. Demoralization comes before defeat. This is what happened in the Soviet Union ... ....

Romanian and German president discuss Moldova, security

Edit The Miami Herald 20 Jun 2016

Iohannis said he discussed the Black Sea security situation with Gauck ... Former Soviet republic Moldova signed an agreement with the European Union in 2014, which Russia opposed ... ....

Undeterred: Amid Terror Attacks in Europe, US H-bombs Still Deployed There

Edit Antiwar 20 Jun 2016

“A little more than 60 miles from Brussels airport,” Kleine Brogel Air Base is one of six European sites where the United States still stores active nuclear weapons, William Arkin wrote last month. The national security consultant for NBC News Investigates, Arkin warned that these bombs “evade public attention to the extent that a post-terror attack nuclear scare in Belgium can occur without the bombs even being mentioned.”....

Transition: Russia & Post-Soviet States after the Soviet Era

20 years Post-Soviet: Azerbaijan