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conservative behaviorists to postmodern iconoclasts. In response to the tangle of theories arises as Mendoza thesis that the specific optical (of theoretical and conceptual approaches) should be operational, depending on the...
November marked the anniversaries of two events that defined the twentieth century: the Bolshevik Revolution (11/7/1917) and the breaching of the Berlin Wall (11/9/1989). Critics bemoaned experts’ failure to predict the demise...
Bill Clinton loved political drama so much he even enjoyed his own defeats, says Toby Harnden, delighting in The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House by Taylor Branch The Clinton Tapes by Taylor Branch For those...
The Russian Constitutional Court has ruled to extend the moratorium on the death penalty until it is formally abolished by ratification of article six of the European Convention of Human Rights. This “final and un-appealable”...
Times Online President Medvedev dismisses key media aide Mikhail Lesin Times Online The Russian President has dismissed a key aide for apparent abuse of office in a move that marks the first serious split within the Kremlin...
It is 20 years since the destruction of the Berlin Wall by the people of then divided Germany signalled that Russia’s control over Eastern Europe was collapsing. Russia had held Eastern Europe in a brutal grip for four and a...
The system Stalin built in the old Tsarist empire has collapsed irretrievably. The USSR is collapsing, too: most of its republics have now declared themselves independent. In most of those republics the “Communist Party of the...
President Barack Obama raps and dances round the White House, shouting out 'respect, girl' to his chief diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Russian satire, Cartoon Personalities, parodies world leaders, but steers...
MOSCOW. The November 15 municipal elections in Kosovo can be seen as a turning point in the region's history. This was the first vote since Kosovo unilaterally declared independence in February 2008, still unrecognized by...
Washington (UPI) Nov 16, 2009 - Did Mikhail Gorbachev launch glasnost and perestroika in the mid-1980s with the aim of bringing about genuine democratic change in the Soviet Union? That's what he says in two interviews on both...
