Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
The following cable gives some insight into one area we often don’t often get a sense of: Russian First Ladies. Unlike the United States, the
May 30, 2006 P 300927Z MAY 06 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF
VZCZCXRO5415 OO RUEHDBU DE RUEHMO #2429/01 1441227 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 241227Z MAY 07 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0559 INFO RUEHXD/MOSCOW POLITICAL
VZCZCXRO3998 OO RUEHDBU DE RUEHMO #2751/01 3351444 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 011444Z DEC 06 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5613 INFO RUCNCIS/CIS COLLECTIVE
VZCZCXRO4612 RR RUEHDBU DE RUEHMO #2688/01 3031153 ZNY CCCCC ZZH R 301153Z OCT 09 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5229 INFO RUCNCIS/CIS COLLECTIVE RUEHXD/MOSCOW
Update Note: I’ve updated this cable to reflect the one on the Wikileaks site. As Ed Lucas noted (see comments below), the Russian Reporter version
VZCZCXRO9862 PP RUEHDBU DE RUEHMO #9533/01 2430639 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 310639Z AUG 06 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1394 INFO RUCNCIS/CIS COLLECTIVE
So far the Wikileaks dump of US diplomatic cables have revealed little that Russia watchers didn’t already know or hadn’t previously suspected. Granted, it’s still