by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 6, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis After the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, the Russian Federation was left with much of its territory but far fewer of its ethnic minorities. Within Russia, most minority regions became republics along the lines of those lost. At the time,...
by Matt Armstrong | Feb 15, 2015 | Monitor
Read my December 15, 2014 article at War on the Rocks: Russian President Vladimir Putin has nearly completed his purge of independent news media in Russia. “This is not just a war of information,” says one keen analyst at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. “It is a...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 19, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis It wasn’t long after I began to work as an Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer at the US Embassy in Moscow during Brezhnev’s later years, that I learned the realities of Soviet life. As it turned out, only one Soviet who I met during...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 28, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Over the past several months, I’ve been trying to figure out what the Kremlin’s policy toward Ukraine is. Does Moscow have a long term objective or is it, in reality, winging it? Is the Putin regime foremost playing to nationalist grievances at...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 13, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis As Russia tightens its grip on Crimea and unrest continues to destabilize Ukrainian cities, flashes of similar Kremlin behavior now nearly 25 years ago return in terrifying Technicolor. Old Cold Warriors in the West and in Moscow seem to be...
