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"Разрушил отношения Путин, а не Обама"
Петр Черемушкин, svoboda.orgБывший посол США в Москве Майкл Макфол – о том, зачем на самом деле Барак Обама отправлял его в РоссиюРаспечататьПоделиться в социальной сетиОпубликовать у себяСовершенно...
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America as Explained to Non-Americans. Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...
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NEA Announces Literary Translation Fellowships
arts.govWith the support of an FY 2016 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, Maia Evrona will translate Abraham Sutzkever's Poems from My Diary from Yiddish to English. Photo courtesy of Jewish Public...
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And then we had ... Clitoral Diplomacy: The American-Russian Reset Button...
Image from, with caption: Руки руководителей внешнеполитических ведомств России и США Сергея Лаврова и Хиллари Клинтон - символическая перезагрузка отношений Москtы и Вашингтона. Швейцария, 2009 год...
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Samuel Ramani, huffingtonpost.comThe Kyiv Post reported on July 15, 2015, that Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers had registered draft legislation to establish Ukraine Tomorrow, a state-owned foreign...
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How the Obama White House runs foreign policy
By Karen DeYoung August 4 at 8:33 PM, washingtonpost.comimage fromWhen Susan E. Rice took over as President Obama’s national security adviser two years ago, she was struck by how the White House had...
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How to beat Vladimir Putin in the battle for hearts and eyeballs
Peter Pomerantsev, ft.comKremlin still has media hegemony over 142m Russian citizens, writes Peter Pomerantsev©EPAThe west is belatedly waking up to the power of the Kremlin’s media machine. The...
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Dad And His 8-Year-Old Son Are Creating A Pun-Fueled Food Map Of Every US...
Laura Cunha, distractify.comChris Durso of Foodiggity started a hilarious project with his 8-year-old son last year called Foodnited States of America. The "pun-fueled" photo series is recreating every...
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9 CEOs paid 800 times more than their workers: Note for a lecture, "E...
Matt Krantz, USA TODAYimage fromCompanies had lots of reasons to resist a just-approved new rule forcing them to disclose the pay gap between workers and the CEO: 216 to be exact.The average CEO of...
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A facebook comment on Donald Trump
It’s not just Donald Trump — politics has always been about entertainmentThe feverish anticipation of tonight’s GOP debate is really only politics as usual, American style.WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COMLike...
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The Big Downsizing: Retirement Lessons
EILEEN MALLOY, afsa.orgHere are some lessons learned on the retirement transition from a member of the Foreign Service who's been there recently.BY EILEEN MALLOYWe are all set to go. When the moving...
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Carrots and Pollock (edited Facebook comment)
John Brown shared a link.3 hrs ·В Подмосковье уничтожили почти десять тонн польской морковиРоссельхознадзор уничтожил девять тонн моркови из Польши, которую обнаружили на территории...
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IF RUSSIA BREAKS UP: The peril beyond Putin
Via NIM on Facebookworldif.economist.comThe world rightly worries about the prospect of a Greater Russia. But a Lesser Russia could be just as troublingimage fromUNDER Vladimir Putin’s presidency,...
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OBAMA TO JEWISH LEADERS: LAY OFF THE IRAN DEAL, AND I WILL LAY OFF YOU: Note...
Lee Smith, tabletmag.comimage fromExtract:America’s center of gravity is not its position in the Persian Gulf. Rather, it’s our social cohesion. For all of our many flaws, our petty hatreds, our...
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No passport: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United...
From Letters to the Editor, The Times Literary Supplement (July 31, 2015), p. 6:image fromSir, - "Most Americans have never been abroad and do not intend to go", writes David J. Wasserstein (Letters,...
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Byzantine Empire—or Republic?
theamericanconservative.comvia AF on FacebookThe Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome, Anthony Kaldellis, Harvard University Press, 312 pagesBy BRIAN PATRICK MITCHELL • August 7,...
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The American version of the Russian cheese scandal ...
On the Russian cheese scandal, see: "We Will Bury You: Russia Bulldozes Tons Of European Cheese, Other Banned Food,"NPRBelow article fromKraft Recalls 36K Cases of Possibly Dangerous CheeseSCOTT...
View ArticleAmerican Bile - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United...
ROBERT B. REICH, robertreich.orgSUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2013 [article cited on Facebook. 8/8/2015)Not long ago I was walking toward an airport departure gate when a man approached me.“Are you Robert...
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Church Diplomacy: The Rebirth of the Patriarch of Moscow
tnp.noIn this week’s global outlook, Dr. Filippo ROMEO discusses how intensification of relations between Church and State has become more evident in recent years in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.Photo:...
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How to Combat Putin’s Propaganda War
Helle Dale, dailysignal.comimage fromThe war is on.Russian President Vladimir Putin has unleashed a vast information network across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as within the European Union.This...
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