To recap, by the end of 1991 and for the first time since 1721, Russia was neither an empire nor the de facto and uncontested…
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Yesterday, August 30th, 2022, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the first and last President of…
Upon the dramatic failure of perestroika, the ruse of NATO ‘non-enlargement’ associated with the Two-Plus-Four German unification treaty, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact…
The German unification (or, more precisely, reunification) affair was many things to both Gorbachev, on a personal level as the head of state, and Russia.…
In part VI of the “Ukraine Crisis” series, I showcased, though summarily, that the war in Ukraine is the ‘paradigm shift’ of twenty-first century’s international…
During his press conference on Thursday, February 24, 2022, a reporter directed the following question to President Biden: “Did you underestimate Putin, and would you…
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Winter Olympics are over TODAY; and, the gold medalist in every category is: President Vladimir Putin of Russia. “Russia said Tuesday…
What none of those coming up with headlines at news outlets managed to perceive with regard to the French President’s Ukraine mission (i.e. visit to…
WHILE A MILITARY SHOWDOWN, OR LIMITED ACTION OF SORTS, YET LOOMS AS A POSSIBILITY; an invasive occupation of Ukraine remains out of any Russian calculation;…
If it comes down to one living person whom the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) should summon as a special guest of…