The Troika Rears its Head Once Again

Threats for Russia: From the Past to the Future Ah, troika, troika, swift as a bird, who was it first invented you? Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls On February 22, 1946, advisor to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Moscow George Kennan sent what would later become known as the “Long Telegram” to the Treasury Department. The document would form the basis for the American and then the Western approach to the Soviet Union for decades to come. " At the bottom of Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs...