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 | Sep 22, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Of all the new appointments made by the Obama administration in the area of media and public relations, by far the most intriguing is Macon Phillips, the guru who shaped President Obama’s re-election social media campaign. Phillips is slated to...
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 | Sep 4, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis For such a small country, international concern over the civil war in Syria is outsized. As they say in real estate, however, location is everything and Syria borders on any number of countries in the Middle East from Turkey to the north to...
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...
