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 | Aug 6, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis In a recent post on the Snowden Case, Dmitri Trenin of Carnegie’s Moscow Institute asks why US relations with China – America’s real rival – are so much less contentious than they are with Russia. It’s a good question. Is it the differences in...
