brusselsjournal.com - 2/11/2009
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The death last year of Alexander Solzhenitsyn reminded westerners of the ideological disturbances that wracked the just completed century, the greatest of which Solzhenitsyn himself had documented in The Gulag Archipelago and in his novelistic cycle The Red Wheel . The literature of the ...
michaelyon-online.com - 2/10/2009
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michaelyon-online.com —
10 February 2009 While we prepare to shunt
perhaps 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan (which still will...
not be enough), Russia continues to play the Asian chessboard. The Russians are picking off pawn after pawn, and steadily eroding our foreign ...
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How Much is Afghanistan Really Worth to Us?
jpost.com - 2/5/2009
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jpost.com —
Russia plans to begin operating the nuclear reactor
it has been building for Iran before the end...
of 2009, the Interfax News Agency quoted a top official as saying on Thursday. "If there are no unforeseen events... then the launch will go according to ...
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Russia official: Bushehr plant to go live in '09 | Iran ...
volokh.com - 2/13/2009
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volokh.com —
The Politics of the Economic Crisis in Russia:
The financial crisis and especially the recent decline in...
oil prices have hit the Russian economy hard, and have shaken previously strong popular support for Vladimir Putin's regime. In late January, ...
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The Volokh Conspiracy
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Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/10/2009
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... P. D. Ouspensky and the Nightmare of Revolution Ouspensky repeats a refrain in all five letters that Bolshevism, being barbarism with a fancy vocabulary, constitutes a threat not only in Russia, but anywhere, hence also everywhere, because it is a destabilizing condition of ordered life, so arduously achieved, always to carry with it “barbarian forces existing inside [the] society, hostile to culture and civilization.” I could not help connecting a recent remark made by Sean Gabb in a Brussels Journal entry with ...
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