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...past two weeks, posters celebrating the Soviet triumph in World War II have been taped to the windows of every store in Russia, proudly displaying the date "9 May" and the orange and black striped ribbon of victory. Red banners have been draped across the fronts of apartment buildings all along the central Moscow parade route. And in the lead-up to the country's annual Victory Day celebrations, the Kremlin has made a move that it touts as yet another display of Russia's patriotism and pride: the government has announced that it is considering passing...
...believe the Duma should enact a law that would criminalize the denial of the Soviet victory in World War II," said Sergei Shoigu, head of the powerful Ministry of Emergency Situations and co-chairman of the supreme council of Putin's United Russia party, during a speech to veterans in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in February, according to reports by Russian news agency RIA Novosti...
...mere expansion of NATO does not represent a threat, [Russian President Dmitri] Medvedev has said repeatedly," said Alexander Sharavin, director of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis in Moscow and a former colonel in the Soviet Army. "However, our country cannot welcome NATO's unilateral steps when they are taken regardless of our interests...
...number of the large countries that make up the E.U. began to form political and military and alliances after WWII and these expanded as the Soviet Union dissolved. Through the current financial crisis there has been very little coordinated economic policy among these same counties even though some of the economically weaker ones would certainly benefit from a program to shore up the financial health of the region by providing a pool of capital for temporary...
...discussion of her legacy. But the questions are of more than academic interest. In the sheer scope of her ambition - including her determination to reset national priorities and change a national discourse, roll back the state, reward enterprise and challenge what she believed was a dangerously accommodationist attitude to Soviet power - the Thatcher enterprise has obvious parallels to that of Barack Obama, even if their ideological trajectories differ. So what lessons might the U.S. President draw from one of the most successful politicians of modern times? (See pictures from Obama's first 100 days...