... interesting, really does not amount to more than just gossip and hearsay. Worse, American media and political analysts adopted it almost wholly as fact rather than as one perspective... ....
Keep in mind all of the above statements were uttered before the 2014 crisis in Ukraine even broke out. So before the U.S. Congress received what has been portrayed... ... placed the Democratic Party as squarely pessimistic and adversarial in its attitude toward Russia as the Republicans. Indeed, in today’s environment of divided government...
... problems was far easier than actually solving them. In that I suspect Ukraine will be no different, no matter how many elections, reforms,... ... consequences. To this day you will be hard-pressed to find much Western media/academic coverage analyzing or considering legitimate Russian ... ... obvious going back two months that they were completely caught unaware and off-guard that anyone on the outside would have words ... ...
A second aspect to play out from the Maidan revolution (the Crimean referendum) is also rather unique and an academic ‘special ...
... commitment for strengthening sanctions and isolating (or is it shaming?) Russia after the Crimea annexation (or is it secession?) was fairly uneventful. The fact of the matter... ... Russian incursion into a whole host of different areas, most notably the Eastern half of Ukraine. There are very few American reporters venturing an alternative viewpoint (the... ... horrible to these rather dull thinkers still stuck in and/or pining for the return of a Cold War environment full of purpose and dire circumstances is that they won’t...
... to heat up the internet (well, at least in Russia and Eastern Ukraine, while likely not even to be acknowledged in Western Europe) ... ... Shufrich and the former Prime Minister, recently-freed-from-prison, media darling Yulia Tymoshenko. The recording, which lasts just ... ... Shufrich basically excoriate everyone associated with the events in Crimea, regretting they are not able to, in turn, shoot people ... ... and formulate her thoughts in such barbaric and base terms. Beware the sheep with fangs, Ukraine. In the end the blood it spills ...
... our Spring discontent. It is ironic to consider that as events continue to unfold in Crimea the path that might hold the most hope for future peace and stability is the... ... guarantees all sides being at least somewhat disappointed. Allow me to elaborate:
Why Ukraine should be disappointed: Crimea is done. As the famous Southern saying in America... ... initial Russian maneuvers into Crimea, subsequent ‘threats’ and ‘warnings’ from American authorities have not so much fallen on deaf ears as amused...
March 16, 2014 marks the day when the people of Crimea go to the voting booths to decide whether they will be part of Ukraine or part of Russia. While the referendum is no doubt important ... ... putting themselves in harm’s way in order to get it, the Cold War residue that remains between the United States and Russia ... ... perplex me how the above transaction is only portrayed in Western media as Yanukovich simply being in the back pocket of Moscow. ... ... states will always be strategic before they choose to be nice. Be warned: this won’t make for fun reading. But it would make ...