Feb 10, 2012
Vladislav Surkov is rumored to be the real second in command of Russia. His influence will most likely grow with the expected return of Vladimir Putin as president this year.
Feb 3, 2012
In my columns, I have been writing a lot about PRC s aggressive policies, its growing military might, and its global ambitions.
Today s PRC s dictators are not as stupid and naive as was Stalin, who kept his country isolated from the entire world. Nobody, except Soviet...
Jan 27, 2012
From the days of early antiquity each human tribe spoke its own language. The association of different tribes led to a spiritual coexistence. Tribesmen learned the languages of tribes they admired.
Some tribes distinguished themselves by culture, and the languages of...
Jan 20, 2012
Emigrating to America from Soviet Russia was like going to live on a distant planet.
But one fine day, those who ruled Russia decided to stage an unusual experiment: They allowed several hundred Soviet citizens to emigrate from the Soviet paradise.
Naturally, we...
Jan 13, 2012
On January 3, 2012, I read a speech by Chinese President Hu Jintao, delivered at an annual policy meeting of the party s Central Committee, Hu: Hostile Forces Seek to Westernize, Split China (by Gillian Wong, Associated Press).
Hu s remarks are part of the Communist...
Dec 30, 2011
I call countries that are not free slave countries, though Soviet propaganda proclaimed that Soviet Russia was the only first free country in the world even after it conquered some countries to the west of it after which those countries became free countries in...
Dec 23, 2011
Who is Mikhail Prokhorov? His is not an unfamiliar name to American sports fans.
A Russian billionaire entrepreneur, he became the owner of the American basketball team, the New Jersey Nets, in 2010: A Russian tycoon with a longstanding passion for basketball agreed to a...
Dec 16, 2011
By the autumn of 1917 Russia had become a culturally free society. The Russian 19th-century prose was intensely read in all culturally advanced countries; Chekhov s plays were staged; several composers were considered classical; Chaliapin s voice was admired . . .
Lenin,...