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Benedict XVI, A Different Pope, Will Come to a Different Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.12.2012 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Karol Wojtyla, Eastern Europe, Havana, Ussr, Cuba, Joseph Ratzinger, Soviet Block, Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, World News

The Catholics are preparing their liturgies and their pomp to receive Benedict XVI, while others wonder if his arrival will bring some significant transformation in the political or social situation of the nation.

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The Prophet Is Dead: Juche and the Future of North Korea

Amarnath Amarasingam | Posted 02.18.2012 | Religion

Read More: Nationalism, Dprk, Ussr, Kim Jong Il, Crimes Against Humanity, The Juche Idea, Religion, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, North Korea Nuclear Program, Revolution, Kim Il Sung, Humanitarian Crisis, Religion and Politics, Socialism, North Korea, Soviet Union, Religion News

Little has been written about North Korea's driving state ideology - the "Juche idea" - and the clues it may hold for predicting the nature of post-Kim Jong Il North Korea

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Georgia: The Ultimate European Back Door

Rick Steves | Posted 02.07.2012 | Travel

Read More: Georgia, Tbilisi, Rick Steves, Europe Travel, Eastern Europe, Ussr, Slidepollajax, Wine, Georgia Travel, Europe, Travel Blogs, Travel News

Where are all the tourists?

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Nobel Peace Prize Controversies, Past And Present

Posted 12.07.2011 | World

Congratulations from across the world this morning, as the Nobel Committee announced the laureates of its Peaze Price in Oslo today. The Committee rew...

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Back in the USSR (You Don't Know How Lucky You Are)

Ken Blackwell | Posted 12.05.2011 | World

Read More: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Russian Politics, Dmitry Medvedev, Ussr, World News

Vladimir Putin's Russian nickname would not be Vlad, but Vova. And the Russian word for what he is is vozhd. That's what Russians call the Boss. And Boss he is, to be sure.

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WATCH: Soviet-Made Cars Still The Rage In Cuba

Posted 10.19.2011 | World

Read More: Soviet Cars, Lada, Cold War, Cuba, Soviet Union, Ussr, Cuba Communists, Video, World News

Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, one reminder of the U.S.S.R.'s link to Cuba can still be found on the roads of Havana: an abundan...

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The Mongol Rally: Entering Turkmenistan for Dummies

Grif Peterson | Posted 10.13.2011 | Travel

Read More: Asia Travel, Passports, Ussr, Turkmenistan, Immigration, Turkmen, Mongol Rally, Travel Blogs, Turkmenistan Travel, Travel News

Before disembarking, the first mate announced that the doctor would like to inspect all the Americans. There were 8 of us, too many for the doctor to be bothered with.

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Somalia: Henry Kissinger and Me, Circa 1980

Richard Walden | Posted 10.08.2011 | World

Read More: Drought, Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Famine, Gerald Ford, Somalia, War, Ussr, Operation Usa, Ethiopia, President Mohammad Siad Barre, Operation California, World News

At the time of Ronald Reagan's election, Somalia was sagely thought by Henry Kissinger to be ready for a tour de force, however off our collective radar screen it was at that time.

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Found in Space: 50 Years After Yuri Gagarin

Meg Waite Clayton | Posted 06.12.2011 | World

Read More: Cosmodrome, Jfk Speech, Baikonur, Jfk, U.S.S.R., Space, Yuri Gagarin, Lunar Landing, World News

Fifty years ago today, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to orbit the Earth. During the flight, 190 miles above the globe, he sang to himself.

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Goldman Sachs Considers Helping Russia Attract Foreign Capital

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Russia, Kremlin, Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Investment Fund, Dmitry Medvedev, Ussr, Business News

MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev has held talks with Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein about the bank's possible participation in a direct i...

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The Domino Theory Strikes Again: Who's Next?

Eric Lurio | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Ali Khamanei, Eastern Europe, Civil War, Tunisia, East Germany, Egypt, Algeria, Revolution, Ussr, Iran, Solidarrity Movement, Ahmadinejad, Gorbachev, Dictators, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, World News

The next regime to go is Algeria. You may ask, "How do you know this? Didn't the police there just beat the crap out of the demonstrators a day or two...

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Hunger for Change

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Food Riots, Fao, Eqypt, Lester Brown, Police, Tunisia, Food Prices, Ussr, Casablanca, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Food and Agricultural Organization, Politics News

Sharply rising food prices have often meant trouble for governments, especially when people expect better and the cost of food is a big fraction of a...

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Exhibition Spotlight: Artist Dimitri Kozyrev Explores Ruin, Geometry, And Stalin

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Exhibition Spotlight, Stalin, El Lissitzsky, New York City, Ussr, Dimitri Kozyrev, ARt Exhibition, Painting, Lost Edge, Geometry, Painterly, Suprematism, Benrimon Contemporary, Avant-Garde, Malevich, Last One, Slidefullscreen, Landscape, Arts News

WHAT: Last One WHO: Dimitri Kozyrev WHEN: March 10, 2011 - April 1, 2011 Opening reception on March 10, 2011 from 5-9pm WHERE: Benrimon Cont...

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After 80 Years Russians Wonder: Is It Time To Bury Vladimir Lenin

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Lenin Buried, Russia, Lenin Body, Soviet Union Lenin, Lenin Popularity, Bury Lenin's Body, Ussr, Lenin, Bury Lenin, Soviet Union, Russia Lenin, Leninism, World News

MOSCOW — A new poll sponsored by the pro-Kremlin party is asking Russians to vote on whether it's time to bury Vladimir Lenin. The embalmed bod...

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New START Is About More Than Russia

Craig Martin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, International Law, Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear Proliferation, Start, Npt, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obma, Reagan, Ussr, Russa, Politics News

New START is about much more than relations with Russia. It is about reestablishing U.S. leadership in the global effort to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons in the world.

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Nobel Peace Prize Controversies, Past And Present

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

With jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and his family barred from accepting his Nobel Peace Prize at the Dec. 10 ceremony in Oslo, the Nobel Prize c...

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Afghanistan Is About Perpetual War

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: 1984, Rome, George Orwell, War, Ussr, Perpetual War, Obama, A People's History of the United States, Peace, Norman Solomon, Athens, The Bomb, David Swanson, Howard Zinn, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Persia, Politics News

The war in Afghanistan is about perpetual war, not Afghanistan. It's about preventing democracy in the United States, not bringing it to Southwest ...

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Balanced Capitalism

Dr. Vladimir A. Masch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Adam Smith, US Economy, William-Baumol, Milton Friedman, South Korea, Ussr, Paul Krugman, Capitalism, Recession, Economic Models, Soviet Union, Paul Samuelson, Warren Buffett, Larry Summers, Irma Adelman, Business News

The sooner we stop coddling -just for sake of political correctness- the unbalanced and dysfunctional global economic order, the better will be our chances of surviving the crisis.

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NATO Future Raises Questions: U.S. And Europe Rethink Role Of Cold War Alliance

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Nato, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, U.S., Russia, Cold War, Europe, Eu, Afghanistan, Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Ussr, World News

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is heading to a meeting of NATO ministers in Estonia at a time when the 61-year-old organ...

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Entering the Soviet Era in America

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Ussr Us, US Military Spending, Ussr Afghanistan, US Afghanistan, Military Spending, Ussr, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Drunk on war as Washington may be, the U.S. is still not the Soviet Union in 1991 -- not yet. But it's not the triumphant "sole superpower" anymore either.

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Citizen Diplomacy Where? Part I

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Russia, Ussr, Mediation, Dialogue, Cold War, Exchange, Citizen Diplomacy, World News

After the Cold War, whether impressed by affluence, by liberty, or by the warmth of their welcome, the Soviets saw a U.S. very different from the government propaganda they'd grown up with.

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The Myth of Ronald Reagan

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Bill Clinton, Saddam Hussein, Michael Moore's Roger & Me, Enron, Deregulation, Ussr, Taliban, Charlie Wilson's War, Iraq, Afghanistan, Obama, Cold War, Reaganomics, Politics News

A closer look at Reaganomics: One could argue that the selling of American businesses to overseas' markets began under Reagan.

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Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC's Indo-American Arts Council

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Jews, Rabindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Pakistan, Salaam Bombay!, Punjabi, Sundaram Tagore, Hindus, Mira Nair, Sesame Street India, Indian Diaspora, Oiww, Bengali, Sikhs, Indian Consulate New York, Mumbai, Indian Classical Music, Aroon Shivdasani, Christians, New York Philharmonic, Jeffrey Sachs, Iona College, Indian Independence, Slumdog Millionaire, Barack Obama, Spanglish, U.S.S.R., Parsis, British, Danny Boyle, Amelia, Upper East Side, M.F.Husain, Broadway, Mahatma Gandhi, Ravi Shankar, Cold War, Hindi, 1947, Vishakha Desai, Indra Nooyi, Global Citizen, Doris Day, Isheeta Ganguly, Telugu, North America, Earth Institute, Salman Rushdie, Manvendra Singh Gohil, Indian-Americans, Urdu, Harold and Kumar, Buddhists, United States, Asia Society, Non-Aligned Nations, Queens, Indo-American Arts Council, Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, Royal House of Rajpipla, India Unveiled, Daily Kos, Thought Leader, Tamil, Mississippi Masala, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Columbia University, Haitian Earthquake Relief, Muslims, Nuclear Weapon State, Baha'is, Bollywood, Zubin Mehta, Orphans International Worldwide, Sanjay Gupta, Jains, Gujarati, Indo-Americans, New York News

Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half he...

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On Global Warming: Trust but Verify

Jonathan Lash | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen, United States, Climate Change, cop15, China, Global Warming, Ronald Reagan, Ussr, Green News

While the U.S. delays, China is moving to lead in technologies that are innovative and clean.

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20 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?

Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Mujahedeen, Berlin Wall, Al-Qaeda, United States in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Superpower, Ussr, Cold War, Moscow, Taliban, War on Terror, Soviet Union, Haiti Earthquake, World News

Remarkably, Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future. It is paradoxical that the graveyard of one superpower should become a battlefield for the other.

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