by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 31, 2014 | Monitor
By Jyrki Iivonen, Guest Contributor (Jyrki Iivonen was Director for Public Policy at the Finnish Ministry of Defense from 2002-13 and Minister Counselor at the Finnish Embassy in Washington, DC from 1996-2000. He was editor-in-chief of Maanpuolustus (National...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 1, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Russian Federation was and is still the world’s largest country. Geographically that is. It stretched and still stretches from Murmansk to Vladivostok but lost its soft-underbelly – the Central...