by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 15, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Madeleine Albright wrote in “My Undiplomatic Moment,†a commentary published in The New York Times on February 13, 2016, that she had said at a Clinton rally in New Hampshire “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 25, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Not long after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan various versions of the following joke circulated in Moscow: An American and a Soviet were comparing notes about their respective modes of travel. The Soviet asked the American how he got the...
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 Patricia H. Kushlis | Dec 10, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Last week, Montenegro, that tiny mountainous country, population of about 662,000 on the Adriatic Coast between Bosnia and Albania, was invited to join NATO. The invitation had been nine years in the making. (Montenegro map 2015 from...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Nov 30, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The Turkish military’s downing of a Russian SU-24 was no accident but neither was the Kremlin’s overflight of Turkish territory nor its attacks on Turkmen living in regions of Syria close to the Turkish border. Russian violations of Turkish...
