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Горовиц, Хартман и значение культурной дипломатии
RECENT ENTRIES FRIENDS ARCHIVE PROFILE RSSEMBASSY_VOICESБлог посольства США в Москве Горовиц, Хартман и значение культурной дипломатииembassy_voicesApril 10th, 16:51Джеффри...
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More on soccer/calcio ...
I note that one of my postings on this minor blog received quite a large number of visitors -- the posting being on soccer.During my daily jogs in Rock Creek Park in the imperial capital I see children...
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A facebook exchange with a great historian [Nick Cull] on public diplomacy,...
John Brown Nick -- Much appreciate your staying in touch, esp. since I was "eliminated" as an (unpaid) Senior Fellow at USC's Pubic (sorry, Public) Diplomacy program, some years ago, reasons unknown....
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Morning/mourning
I want to wait for the morning, before it turns into mourning.La nuit finie.In tumor of Emily Dickinson:image from
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Why I Feel Privileged to be an American ...
Walt Whitman:Image fromSong of the Open RoadBY WALT WHITMAN1Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,Healthy, free, the world before me,The long brown path before me leading wherever I...
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A Strangely Funny Russian Genius
Ian Frazier, New York Review of BooksMAY 7, 2015 ISSUE“I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary”: The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharmsselected, translated from the Russian, and...
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Monsters Together
JOHN LUKASC, New York Review of Books, April 23The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939–1941by Roger MoorhouseBasic Books, 382 pp., $29.99Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty ImagesSoviet...
View ArticleIs ‘Rossiyanin’ Really an Ethnic Term After All?
Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia (April 24) Staunton, April 24 – Many Russians make a clear distinction between “russky,” the Russian adjective for a member of the Russian ethnos, and...
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The Top Imported Good in Each State, in One Map
From fixr.com22 APRIL 2015 Looking at the dominant import of each state reveals the economic commodity on which each state is most dependent. Immediately noticeable is the dominance of oil and...
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A challenge to translators/interpreters of American English into another...
From a Facebook entry:For my non-American friends seeking to understand to the USA, if you comprehend all of the jokes in the below, you don't need a Ph.D. in American studies smile emoticon See/hear
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The New Kold War: Dragoon Ride vs. Night Wolves
Perfect subject for Gogol:Image from(1) (CNN): Eastern Europe, Here comes the cavalry. (March 14)(2) (aljazeera): Poland denies Russia 'Night Wolves' bikers entry: Border guards prevent 10 pro-Putin...
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"Leviathan" vs. "Президент."
John Brown20 mins · Edited ·https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyNcbVuDJyANot to be missed for anyone interested in Russia. In its own way, more interesting as film fiction than the artistically...
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Сокурсник Путина, экс-разведчик КГБ: Вы серьезно думаете, что Путин, делающий...
ПУБЛИКАЦИИ ЭКСКЛЮЗИВ «ГОРДОНА»Сокурсник Путина, экс-разведчик КГБ: Вы серьезно думаете, что Путин, делающий подтяжку лица, развяжет ядерную войну? У него от страха ботокс потечетБывший советский...
View ArticleTwo States of Emergency in Baltimore. Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...
Justice requires that both the rioters and the city's rogue police officers be held to account.CONOR FRIEDERSDORF, The Atlantic Via AH on FacebookOn Monday, Americans watched televised images of riots...
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Baltimore awakens to devastation: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
Donna Leinwand Leger, William M. Welch and John Bacon, USA TODAYResidents of Baltimore are dealing with the damage left behind by rioters who looted stores and set buildings on fire after Freddie Gray...
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11 Stunning Images Highlight the Double Standard of Reactions to Riots Like...
Derrick Clifton April 27, 2015 fromThe city of Baltimore, Maryland, has been besieged by riots Monday night — and police are on the scene ready to serve, protect and subdue.This has become an evergreen...
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Comparisons: Bush and Gray
George W. Bush, former president of the United States, alive and cocaine free, comfortably painting his life away, andFreddie Gray, a 25-year-old, taken into custody by the Baltimore Police Department...
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The most racist places in America, according to Google. Note for a lecture,...
By Christopher Ingraham April 28 at 8:23 AM, Washington Post Where do America's most racist people live? "The rural Northeast and South," suggests a new study just published in PLOS ONE.The paper...
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“We have a distorted economy”: Joseph Stiglitz sounds off on inequality, the...
From SalonNobel Prize-winning economist tells Salon why inequality is a choice and offers his take on Obama's big trade dealELIAS ISQUITH Follow Share 2K 228 Post 0 TOPICS: JOSEPH STIGLITZ,...
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