(ANTIMEDIA) In August of 1991, members of the Soviet Union’s government — who were also hard-line members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) — attempted to take control of the country. What many call a coup attempt failed in just two days.
Noam Chomsky's latest book (more info here) by Gaius PubliusScheduling note: I'll be on travel for much of the next two weeks, so no posting until early July.We've written in these pages about the history of U.S.-Russian relations since the end of the Cold War (examples here and
“We never tried to wake our children up on weekends: the more they sleep, the less they eat.” -Natalia Recently, the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet got flooded with personal photographs from the 1990s. I first took note of them on my own Facebook feed. Some appeared expectedly funny—imagine the hairstyles!—others were nostalgic. Yet what seemed like … Continue reading If You’re So Smart, Then Why Are You So Poor? Russia’s 1990s Revisited.
by Gaius PubliusIt's not on most people's radar, I think, that what's going on inside Ukraine is a proxy war between the West — mainly the U.S., aided by the E.U. — and Russia. In the same way, the long "internal" Nicaraguan conflict of the Reagan '80s was a proxy war between, yet again, the U.S. and Russia (also, between the U.S. and anyone in Latin America who didn't want to live under U.S.
RT | December 15, 2014 The US needs reforms similar to those during Perestroika in the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev told RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze. The former Soviet leader also spoke about Washington’s policy of pressure and intervention into conflicts. Gorbachev stressed the need for political and economic reforms in the US, saying “they need a […]
