by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 9, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis I must admit I quite enjoyed the Russian propaganda show that opened the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Friday night. Russians have been extraordinarily adept at story-telling for seemingly forever and staging extravaganzas –first religious then...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 20, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The US State Department recently issued a travel advisory to American citizens planning to attend the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia in February and March. Often the media ignores or fails to publish the Department’s Travel...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 7, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was made to order television drama operating in nearly Aristotelian time from the beginning through the bizarre car chase, shoot out and round-up of the one suspect still alive. The script was almost all...
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...
