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...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Recent events have demonstrated yet again that Russians are Russians whether in charge of the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation. Whether the Obama administration inadvertently stumbled onto this fact of life or not, Americans and others who...
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...
