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...NATO would not expand beyond West Germany. Russians decry the West's broken word, and question the purpose of NATO's encircling them from the west and south. Ukraine's prospective NATO membership is particularly painful to Russia in terms of security and emotions: Ukraine is the site of Kievan Rus, the original state from which both Russia and Ukraine sprang. Russian historians traditionally referred to Kiev as "The Mother of Russian cities." As for Georgia, Moscow frets about what it sees as an encirclement in order to dismember Russia and grab its hydrocarbon and other riches. Most Russians...
...Russia is drinking, and without drinking we cannot be," said Prince Vladimir, ruler of the state of Kievan Rus in the 10th century, as he chose Christianity for the state religion over teetotal Islam. Never has Russia indulged her joy more than over the last five petrodollar-rich years, with alcohol from any land available to complement the fabulous abundance of domestic vodkas, at prices ranging from affordable at kiosks to exclusive at rare wine boutiques. But the joy abruptly ended on July 1. Citing the need to control alcohol quality and tax collection, the government has decreed that...
...Moldavia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia. The future, sunny a moment earlier, suddenly looked problematic and dangerous. What of the 27,000 nuclear warheads deployed on missiles, bombers, submarines and at ammunition dumps across the old Union? Would the world see a medieval fragmentation, reversion to the old city-states of Kievan Rus and Muscovy, and feudal warlords with nukes? What of the 25 million ethnic Russians now intermixed with the newly nationalistic peoples of Ukraine or Kazakhstan? What would happen if the grain harvest proved as poor as predicted, the distribution system remained as feckless as ever, and winter...
...supposedly nailed his shield to the imperial gates of Constantinople. From this foray, the Russians brought home to their capital in Kiev an advantageous trade treaty and an even more advantageous contact with the Christian religion and sophisticated culture of Constantinople. Thus emerged the first Russian state, known as Kievan Russia...
...Kievan Russia prospered for about three centuries, dominating the main trade route from Scandinavia to Constantinople. Then there suddenly sounded new hoofbeats from the East...