Russian Other, American Other
Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.
Guests: Dina Fainberg and Victoria Zhuravleva on the history of Russian and American mutual perceptions.
Guest: Alison Rowley onย Putin Kitsch in America published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Guests: Ekaterina Babintseva and Slava Gerovitch on cybernetics in the United States and Soviet Union.
Guest: Lee Farrow on Alexis in America: A Russian Grand Duke’s Tour, 1871-72 published by Louisiana State University Press.
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been on a whirlwind press junket scold Russia.ย Here is a clip of her rhetorical spanking at the
Update: I posted the entire interview. Russia comes in about halfway in. Republican VP Candidate Sarah Palin finally sat down for an interview.ย Lo and
The Democratic and Republican conventions are over.ย Thank god.ย All the political pomp, demigod worship, endless biographical tales, self-congratulation, repetitions of God Bless America, convention
On Friday, Tbilisi broke diplomatic ties with Moscow in protest to statements that Russia plans to absorb South Ossetia and Abkhazia in “several years.”ย Moscow
If Putin was an American politician, what would he be?ย He is conservative, deeply religious, a patriot, and strong partisan for Russian traditions. Given this,
A colleague sent me this cartoon from the 1 September issue of the New Yorker.ย It’s quite an appropriate addendum to “Loving Cold War II.”
So far it’s just a short clip .ย Hopefully, CNN will make the whole interview available.ย But this clip contains what everyone is talking about.ย
The Ossetians are slowly creeping into view, though the articles highlighting their history, plight, and desire for self-determination are still relegated to the journalistic periphery.ย
I usually don’t waste my time with babble but Daniel Silva’s “President Obama and a 3 am Phone Call about Russia” struck a cord. It’s
Washington Profile has an interesting interview with Professor David Foglesong about his book The American Mission and the ‘Evil Empire’: The Crusade for a ‘Free