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Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Friday, February 21, 2025

Russia Invaded Ukraine. Putin Murders and Kidnaps Children. Trump Loves Putin.

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Since the moment Russia invaded Ukraine, I have admired the bravery of the Ukrainian people in defense of their nation. Vladimir Putin wants...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Russian Embassy in my Panama Canal Neighborhood

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 The day after I returned to Panama we moved to a different AirBnB closer to Panama City in the Albrook area.  Less than a mile away on the ...
Friday, June 28, 2024

A Russian Journalist Defies Putin on War in Ukraine

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Zhanna Agalakova   Жа́нна Леони́довна Агала́кова Journalist working at Russian Channel One until the War in Ukraine Zhanna Agalakova has an ...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

May 9: Soviet Victory and One-Third of My Broken Bones

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May is a big day in my life--and for those who still celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union over the Nazis.  While I am happy the Soviets...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Flying to Kyiv from New York on February 24--The Flight Ended in Warsaw

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Today at #RazomforUkriane, I worked with a Nikita.  He is a 36-year-old project manager for a U.S.-based utility company. As we assembled IF...
Monday, May 9, 2022

Victory Day, May 9, Is Also the Day I Broke 13 of 40 Bones

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May 9 is the date Russia and several former Soviet countries celebrate victory over the Nazis.  Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered ver...
Monday, March 7, 2022

Prisoners of Geography, Published in 2015, Relevant Right Now! Book 11 of 2022

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  Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics   by Tim Marshall. Sometimes a book title...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Bad Religion Kills Good People

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The book "Prisoners of Geography" by Tim Marshall begins, "Vladimir Putin says he is a religious man, a great supporter of t...
Friday, May 7, 2021

May 9: Victory Day for Russia, Crash Day for Me

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  In Russia, May 9 is Victory Day, the annual celebration of defeating the Nazis in World  War II.  I am happy to celebrate dead and defeate...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Field Guide to Flying Death: Dumb Bombs, Russia and Syria

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US Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress dropping "dumb" bombs  on Germany in World War II  During World War II and for decades afte...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Meeting Eastern Border Podcast Host on the Eastern Border of the EU and NATO

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Kristaps Andrejsons, host of the The Eastern Border  podcast. On the third weekend of my trip, I drove from Vilnius, Lithuania, to ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Battle of the Tanks, Kursk, 1943: A Review

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--> In July of 1943, the German Army’s ability to attack the Soviet Army ended in smoking wrecks and twisted bodies.   T...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

An American Nazi and a Russian Nazi

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Prison In almost twenty years of service over more than forty years, I met some of the best people it has ever ...
Friday, October 6, 2017

A Cowboy Movie Set in St. Petersburg, Russia

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Last week I watched the movie "Brother" of "Брат" in Russian.  The movie was filmed for just $10,000 in mid-1990s Rus...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Russia and America: Destined to Conflict, Religion

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Russia and America cooperated in World War II because both were threatened by a common enemy. But like our alliances with other wretched d...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Russian Soldiers/Mothers/Wives Talk About Afghan War

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I left the U.S. Army in November of 1979, discharged at Fort Dix, New Jersey, after 6-1/2 years of active duty service.  From 1976 to 197...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Laurus, Book 19 of 2016: A Tale of Old Russia that Stretches to Florence and Jerusalem

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Eleven of the books I have read so far this year are by Russian authors writing about life in Russia from the present back through the ...