by Patricia H. Kushlis | Apr 10, 2014 | Monitor
Talking with the Enemy, Cultivating Friends: Diplomacy Revisited A two-day Santa Fe World Affairs Forum Symposium April 28-29, 2014 At St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico cosponsored by the American Foreign Service Association & St. John’s College in...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Nov 3, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Years ago when I was educational exchanges officer in the Cultural Section of the US Embassy in Moscow, the KGB routinely bugged our apartments as well as the Embassy. We were also surrounded by a phalanx of KGB operatives who “worked for us”...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 21, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Now that the “non-essential” parts of the government have returned to work can we please move on to repair the untold financial damage –estimated as much or more than $24 billion – and personal hardships (a recent poll showed 44% of...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 26, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis It’s not quite cucumber time in Russia. That’s at its height in August. The days are long; the nights are short but I suppose that doesn’t matter much for someone holed up in Sheremetyevo’s transit lounge unless of course there are no blackout...
