Ukraine

Ukrainian arms transfers to Cuba

October 19, 2011

Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovich, will visit Cuba during his six-day tour of Latin American, which begins tomorrow, as announced by his press office. During his visit to Cuba, Yanukukovych will meet the country’s leadership. Several bilateral documents will be signed in the framework of the talks. Several years ago, Kiev sold in bulk light to [...]

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Reviving an old Cuban love affair

January 17, 2010

Richard Lourie, author of “The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin,” wrote an op-ed in The Moscow Times with the following observation about Cuba-Russia relations and the geo-strategic importance of the island in world power politics: Cuba needs money, spare parts for Soviet military equipment and a sense of alliance with a heavyweight player. During President Dmitry Medvedev’s [...]

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Youth movements in post-Communist societies

October 15, 2009

Olena Nikolayenko, a visiting scholar from Stanford University, presented a paper entitled: “Youth Movements in Post-Communist Societies: A Model for Nonviolent Resistance,” at last month’s  2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. An abstract of the paper: Over the past decade, the rise of youth movements applying nonviolent methods of resistance against autocratic incumbents [...]

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A new cold war?

September 11, 2008

Via Sunday Herald: THE SCOTTISH historian Niall Ferguson has warned that the strategic alliance between China and Russia is more of a threat to the West than the credit crunch. Ferguson, a best-selling author, broadcaster and professor of history at Harvard University, said that the development of the new Russia-China powerblock was set to put [...]

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We will bury you

August 16, 2008

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