NEWS

2020-2021 school year
--Can the Biden Administration Get Russia Policy Right? Thomas Graham, Russia Matters: https://russiamatters.org/analysis/can-biden-administration-get-russia-policy-right
--Five Years After Russia Declared Victory in Syria: What Has Been Won?, by Thomas Schaffner, Russia Matters: https://russiamatters.org/analysis/five-years-after-russia-declared-victory-syria-what-has-been-won
--Putin's "Global Hybrid War": US Experts, Russia, and the Atlantic Council, by Andrei Tsygankov, Pavel Tsygankov, and Haley Gonzales - Russia in Global Affairs: https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/putins-global-hybrid-war/
--A Russian-Chinese Partnership Against America? by Charles E. Ziegler, The National Interest: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russian-chinese-partnership-against-america-179280
--America Is Not 'Back'. And Americans Should Not Want It to Be, by Stephen Wertheim, The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/opinion/biden-foreign-policy.html
--The Longer Telegram: Toward a New US China Strategy, by Anonymous - The Atlantic Council: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Longer-Telegram-Toward-A-New-American-China-Strategy.pdf?utm_campaign=wp_todays_worldview&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_todayworld
--Overextending and Unbalancing Russia, RAND Corporation: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
--The Post-Pandemic International Order, by Prof. Stephen Walt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IM6pQxZgXs&feature=emb_logo
--Forging 21st-Century Strategic Deterrence, by Adm. Charles Richard, U.S. Navy: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/february/forging-21st-century-strategic-deterrence
--January 22: A new era begins. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force: https://unitar.org/about/news-stories/featuredarticles/op-ed-dawn-of-new-era
--How Europeans see Biden's America - poll, European Council on Foreign Relations: https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-crisis-of-american-power-how-europeans-see-bidens-america/
--Russian foreign policy in 2021, opinions of international experts: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/04/foreign-policy-experts-map-russias-plans-for-2021-a72365
--Russia, China, and the Risks of War: My Conversation with General Milley, by Michael O'Hanlon, National Interest: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-china-and-risks-war-my-conversation-general-milley-175033
--The End of the Wilsonian Era: Why Liberal Internationalism Failed, by Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-12-08/end-wilsonian-era?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_campaign=The%20End%20of%20the%20Wilsonian%20Era&utm_content=20211228&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017
--Right of Launch: US procedures for ordering nuclear strikes, by Bruce Blair et al., War on the Rocks: https://warontherocks.com/2020/11/right-of-launch-command-and-control-vulnerabilities-after-a-limited-nuclear-strike/
--Moscow Braces for US Election, by Tatyana Stanovaya, Carnegie Moscow Center: https://carnegie.ru/commentary/83007
--Ten Years Until Armageddon: The Nuclear Threat Grows, by Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/10-years-until-armageddon-the-nuclear-threat-grows/
--Coming Storms: The Return of Great Power War, by Christopher Layne, Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-10-13/coming-storms?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_campaign=Coming%20Storms&utm_content=20201030&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017
--Could the Soviet Union Have Survived? - Four historians address the question, History Today: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/could-soviet-union-have-survived?utm_source=pocket-newtab
--Rogue Superpower: Why This Could Be an Illiberal American Century - Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-10-06/illiberal-american-century-rogue-superpower
--Phantom Peril in the Arctic: Climate change, not Russia is the threat - Robert English and Morgan Gardner, Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-09-29/phantom-peril-arctic
--Why Armenia and Azerbaijan Are on the Brink of War - Jeffrey Mankoff, Foreign Affairs:https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/turkey/2020-10-01/why-armenia-and-azerbaijan-are-brink-war?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_campaign=On%20Iran%2C%20the%20Next%20Administration%20Must%20Break%20With%20the%20Past&utm_content=20201001&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017
--US, China, Russia clash at the UN Security Council over Covid19: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-wang-yi-united-states-antonio-guterres-russia-38dc347cba1f35723757d666df118e79
--UN marks its 75th anniversary in an empty hall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/09/23/trump-xi-united-nations-75/?utm_campaign=wp_todays_worldview&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_todayworld
--A Double Thucydides Trap: Donald Trump's Presidency and New Bipolarity, by Dmitry Yefremenko: https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/076-097.pdf
--The Coming Post-COVID Anarchy - Kevin Rudd: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-05-06/coming-post-covid-anarchy?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=summer_reads&utm_campaign=summer_reads_2020_actives&utm_content=20200906&utm_term=all-actives
--Everything You Know About the Global Order Is Wrong - Adam Tooze: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everything-you-know-about-global-order-is-wrong?utm_source=pocket-newtab

2019-20 school year
--Thanks to sanctions, Russia is cushioned from Virus's economic shock - The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/world/europe/russia-coronavirus-covid-19.html
--America has been intervering in Russian politics for a century - Stephen Kinzer: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/10/opinion/americans-are-told-every-day-that-russians-are-interfering-our-politics-weve-been-interfering-russias-century/
--Understanding Potential Trajectories of Great-Power Competition, RAND Corporation: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2982.html
--Explaining Saudi-Russia oil war, Vox: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/9/21171406/coronavirus-saudi-arabia-russia-oil-war-explained
--The pandemic and globalization - Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-03-16/will-coronavirus-end-globalization-we-know-it?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_content=20200316&utm_campaign=FA%20Today%20031620%20Coronavirus%20and%20the%20Fragility%20of%20Globalization%2C%20Violence%20and%20Division%20in%20Afghanistan%2C%20Saving%20U.S.%20Alliances&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017
--10 most embarrassing US media lies about Russia - Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept:https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-worst-most-embarrassing-u-s-media-failures-on-the-trumprussia-story/
--US uses Russian and Chinese satellites to spy on Russia and China: https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/03/russian-and-chinese-satellites-are-helping-us-pilots-spy-russia-and-china/163542/?oref=d-mostread
--Sharing the Globe with other Great Powers, by Graham Allison, Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-02-10/new-spheres-influence
--Banker Blankfein calls Bernie Sanders best candidate to serve Russia's interests: https://twitter.com/lloydblankfein/status/1227455415241363456
--Westlessness: Munich Security Report 2020: https://securityconference.org/en/publications/munich-security-report-2020/
--The risk of nuclear war rises with the deployment of a new US nuclear weapon - William Arkin, Democracy Now: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/7/us_new_low_yield_nuclear_weapons
--Global ratings of Russia, Putin - Pew Research: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/07/russia-and-putin-receive-low-ratings-globally/
--Global ratings of the US, Trump - Pew research: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/08/how-people-around-the-world-see-the-u-s-and-donald-trump-in-10-charts/
--We Live in a Disintegrating World, by Patrick Cockburn - CounterPunch: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/04/we-live-in-a-disintegrating-world/
--Finally! Adam Schiff is exposed as a Putin agent! - CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/24/opinions/adam-schiff-is-the-one-helping-putin-destabilize-us-democracy-schiff/index.html
--US Grand Strategy Toward China - Council on Foreign Relations: https://cdn.cfr.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/CSR85_Blackwill_China.pdf?_ga=2.245320325.148296597.1580057667-716542988.1580057667
--The US spends almost $1 trln. on "defense" - Defense One: https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/01/why-does-us-spend-so-much-defense/162657/?oref=defense_one_breaking_nl
--Battle of Ages to Stop Eurasian Integration, by Pepe Escobar - Asia Times: https://www.asiatimes.com/2020/01/article/battle-of-the-ages-to-stop-eurasian-integration/
--The Collapse of Neoliberalism, by Miatta Fahnbulleh -Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-kingdom/2019-12-10/neoliberal-collapse?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_content=20201231&utm_campaign=FA%20Today%20123119%20Dreams%20of%20Westphalia%2C%20The%20Neoliberal%20Collapse%2C%20Iran%27s%20Plans%20for%20Iraq&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017
--Russia and America: The Asymmetric Rivalry, by Andrei Tsygankov - Ambassador's Brief: https://www.ambassadorsbrief.com/posts/gytGTSXh3BdEXGWd9?escaped_fragment=
--The Sources of Chinese Conduct, by Odd Arne Westad - Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2019-08-12/sources-chinese-conduct?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_content=20191226&utm_campaign=FA%20Today%20122619%20Best%20of%202019:%20The%20Sources%20of%20Chinese%20Conduct&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017
--The Age of Great Power Competition, by Elbridge Colby and Wes Mitchell - Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-12-10/age-great-power-competition
--For Wall Street, Russia has become "bulletproof" - Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/11/18/for-wall-street-russia-has-become-bullet-proof/#35d9d90d6ffd
--Putin's AI strategy: a critical assessment - https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/11/russias-ai-quest-state-driven-even-more-chinas-can-it-work/161519/?oref=defense_one_breaking_nl
--Meet Ukraine: America's newest strategic ally, by Prof. Melvin Goodman - CounterPunch: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/15/meet-ukraine-americas-newest-strategic-ally/
--US strategic bombers are flying near Russian submarine bases - https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/danger-%E2%80%93-us-b-52-bombers-are-flying-near-russian-submarine-bases-95946
--Let Russia Be Russia: The Case for a More Pragmatic Approach to Moscow, by Thomas Graham - Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2019-10-15/let-russia-be-russia?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_content=20191113&utm_campaign=FA%20Today%20111319%20Let%20Russia%20Be%20Russia%2C%20Trump%27s%20Shapeshifting%20Syria%20Policy%2C%20The%20U.S.%20Assault%20on%20Global%20Trade&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017
--3 Steps to Reviving the Russian Relationship, by Dennis Ortblad and Krishan Mehta - Foreign Policy: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/3-steps-reviving-russian-relationship-93871
--The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, signed in 2010, seems destined to expire: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/world/europe/nuclear-arms-pact-expire-russia.html
--Tacit Alliance: Russia and China Take Military Partnership to New Level, by Vassily Kashin: https://carnegie.ru/commentary/80136?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
--No, Putin Doesn't Like Impeachment, by Tatiana Stanovaya: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/20/vladimir-putin-russia-impeachment-trump-229861
--A Brief Guide to Russia's Return to the Mideast", by Eugene Rumer and Andrew Weiss - https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/80134?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
--War Is Not Over: What the Optimists Get Wrong about Conflict, by Tanisha Fazal and Paul Poast, Foreign Affairs - https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-10-15/war-not-over?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_content=20191024&utm_campaign=FA%20Today%20102419%20War%20Is%20Not%20Over%2C%20Tehran%20and%20the%20Taliban%2C%20Spain%20Digs%20Up%20Its%20Past&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017
--Russian pranksters warn Alaska Governor that Russia is planning to annex Alaska - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuzmOn7F488
--This Is Not Great-Power Competition, by Michael Mazarr - https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2019-05-29/not-great-power-competition
--Is the Interventionists' Era Over for Good? by Patrick Buchanan - https://buchanan.org/blog/is-the-interventionists-era-over-for-good-137617
--Everybody Betraying Everybody in Syria, by Graham Fuller - http://grahamefuller.com/everybody-betraying-everybody-in-syria/
--Syria: US forces withdraw from Manbij in an apparent coordination with Russia: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-confirms-manbij-handed-over-russia-us-forces-filmed-departing
--Hard Truths in Syria, by Brett McGurk - https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2019-04-16/hard-truths-syria
--The Return of Geoeconomics, by Michael Lind - https://nationalinterest.org/print/feature/return-geoeconomics-87826
--Putin talks with Arab media about Russia's policies in the Middle East - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxPepA-Jwr8

OLDER LINKS

North Korea Is Walking Back War, and Pundits Are Strangely Disappointed - John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus: http://fpif.org/north-korea-walking-back-war-pundits-strangely-disappointed/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=01-11-18
Iran - On the Brink? by Graham E. Fuller: http://grahamefuller.com/iran-on-the-brink/
US to loosen nuclear weapons constraints and develop more "usable" warheads - The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/09/us-to-loosen-nuclear-weapons-policy-and-develop-more-usable-warheads
Russia's grip on European energy market is tightening - Nick Cunningham, OilPrice: https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Russias-Grip-On-European-Gas-Markets-Is-Tightening.html
Making China Great Again - Evan Osnos, The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/08/making-china-great-again?mbid=nl_Magazine%20010818&CNDID=48840000&spMailingID=12673065&spUserID=MTgwOTMzMDgxOTM5S0&spJobID=1320167355&spReportId=MTMyMDE2NzM1NQS2
Bad Moon: (Trouble) Rising - Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/12/18/bad-moon-trouble-rising.html
China Plans to Break Petrodollar Stranglehold - Pepe Escobar, Information Clearinghouse: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48497.htm
The New Hysteria on Kremlin Trolls - Virginia Tilley, CounterPunch: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/29/the-new-hysteria-on-kremlin-trolls/
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard - National Security Archive: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early#.WjAX9r_XxYI.twitter
Russia and the West: A New Cold War? - Andrei Tsygankov, Sustainable Security: https://sustainablesecurity.org/2017/12/22/russia-and-the-west-a-new-cold-war/
What we don't talk about when we talk about Russian hacking - Jackson Lears, The London Review of Books: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n01/jackson-lears/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-russian-hacking?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4001&utm_content=usca_nonsubs
Putin Phoned Trump to thank him for CIA intel that foiled a planned terrorist attack in Russia - Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/putin-thanks-trump-for-cia-intel-that-foiled-a-planned-terrorist-attack-in-russia-the-kremlin-says/2017/12/17/f4274600-e349-11e7-9ec2-518810e7d44d_story.html
The Terrifying Costs of War with North Korea - John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus: http://fpif.org/north-korea-costs-war-calculated/
US Demands NATO Action on Russian Missiles - Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/us-delivers-ultimatum-to-nato-regarding-russian-missiles-a-1182426.html
Destroyer of Worlds: Seven Writers on Surviving the Nuclear Present - Harper's: https://harpers.org/archive/2017/12/
US media systematically lies about Russia - Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2017/12/09/the-u-s-media-yesterday-suffered-its-most-humiliating-debacle-in-ages-now-refuses-all-transparency-over-what-happened/
Joe Biden calls for all-out cold war against Russia - Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2017-12-05/how-stand-kremlin?cid=nlc-fa_fatoday-20171205
US Presidents and the Nuclear Taboo - National Security Archive: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2017-11-30/us-presidents-nuclear-taboo
Suddenly, I'm a Russian Agent, by David Lindorff, Counterpunch: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/28/suddenly-im-a-russian-agent-2/
Is America an Empire? - David C. Hendrickson, The National Interest: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-empire-22768
American public opinion on threats to US - Pew Research: http://www.people-press.org/2017/11/09/partisans-have-starkly-different-opinions-about-how-the-world-views-the-u-s/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=0c30123e98-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-0c30123e98-399502509
Russia Uses Its Energy Giant, Rosneft, as Its Foreign Policy Tool - The New York Times:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/business/energy-environment/russia-venezula-oil-rosneft.html?emc=edit_th_20171030&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=42733334
The Damage Trump Can Do with 4,000 Nuclear Warheads, New York Times editorial: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/opinion/trump-nuclear-arsenal.html?smid=fb-share
Russia-China Tandem Changes the World, by Gilbert Doctorow, ConsortiumNews: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/10/23/russia-china-tandem-changes-the-world/
Forget Alaska. North Korea Might Soon be Able to Nuke New York, by Jeffrey Lewis, The Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/forget-alaska-north-korea-might-soon-be-able-to-nuke-new-york
Who Gets to Have a State? by Graham Fuller: http://grahamefuller.com/who-gets-to-have-a-state/
CIA is recruiting Russian-language specialists, Russian Foreign Ministry welcomes it: https://twitter.com/MID_RF/status/914877465046212609
Bernie Sanders' speech on foreign policy, Westminster College, September 21, 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhPWcLzONxE
"The Russians Are Coming, Again", by Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano, Monthly Review: https://monthlyreview.org/2017/09/01/the-russians-are-coming-again/
"Does the Russiagate story still hold water? (debate, RT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgWI7luu01w
"Atlantic Drift: Russia and the US-Europe Divide", by Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs, Sept 2017: http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/redcol/Atlantic-Drift-Russia-and-the-US-Europe-Divide-18997
"At Risk: DoD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World". US Army War College, 2017: https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pdffiles/PUB1358.pdf

Items from the 2015-16 school year:

Results of Russia's operations in Syria - Stratfor: https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/russia-leaves-syria-loyalists-offensive?id=be1ddd5371&uuid=ef2d0e86-71f7-4fc9-a8c1-f6055e5ca683

Russian hostility partly caused by the West, says former US Defence Secretary: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/russian-hostility-to-west-partly-caused-by-west

The inestimable importance of strategic depth - Steven Kinzer, The Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/03/04/the-inestimable-importance-strategic-depth/FCqTtIF5eyDlOtkFUd5K3N/story.html

Will Russia End Up Controlling 73% of Global Oil Supply? - OilPrice.com: http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Will-Russia-End-Up-Controlling-73-of-Global-Oil-Supply.html

Neoconservatives Declare War on Donald Trump, by Zaid Jilani, The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2016/02/29/neoconservatives-declare-war-on-donald-trump/

Ending the Syrian War, by Jeffrey Sachs: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ending-syrian-civil-war-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2016-02

The global order is unraveling - Michael Hayden, fmr CIA Director: http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/02/25/michael-hayden-syria-isis-bts-holmes.cnn

"Putin, Russia, and the West", BBC documentary, Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjIfVZA37o0

Why the threat of a global war involving Russia is overstated, by Andrei Tsygankov: http://www.russia-direct.org/opinion/5-reasons-why-threat-great-power-war-involving-russia-overstated

The media are misleading the public on Syria - Stephen Kinzer in Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/02/18/the-media-are-misleading-public-syria/8YB75otYirPzUCnlwaVtcK/story.html

Putin's interview with Charlie Rose, PBS, Sept 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_l-ogl34KM

A US Blueprint for Syria? Henri J. Barkey, The Wilson Center: http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/01/27/a-u-s-blueprint-for-syria/

Russian entente nears as allies give Ukraine sanctions hint - Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-russia-sanctions-81c9a530-c447-11e5-b933-31c93021392a-20160126-story.html

Syrian Opposition Heating Up from Moderate to Islamist, by Ruslan Mamedov, Russian Internaitonal Affairs Council: http://russiancouncil.ru/en/inner/?id_4=7151#top-content

Arctic Thaw, by Elizabeth Buchanan, Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2016-01-21/arctic-thaw?cid=nlc-fatoday-20160122&sp_mid=50526714&sp_rid=c3BsZWtoYW5AeW9ya3UuY2ES1&spMailingID=50526714&spUserID=NTU1MzQzNjE3MTMS1&spJobID=842964208&spReportId=ODQyOTY0MjA4S0

Who Wants Change Anymore? by Graham Fuller: http://grahamefuller.com/who-wants-change-any-more/

Can America and Russia Cooperate in Syria? by Amb. Michael McFaul: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/can-america-and-russia-cooperate-in-syria/553711.html?utm_source=email_tmt-editorial&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=55-issue-2016-01-18&utm_content=title_8

Russia's new National Security Strategy - an analysis: http://www.russia-direct.org/opinion/russias-new-national-security-strategy-has-implications-west?utm_source=Russia+Direct+free+weekly+newsletters&utm_campaign=eeee58b838-RD_Newsletter_jan_11_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cd2cf54b82-eeee58b838-78564381

Russia's foreign military bases, Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2014/05/interactive-russia-foreign-military-bases-201459104513678477.html

18 Guatemalan military officers arrested for crimes against humanity - echo of the 1954 coup: http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/18204

Russia's New Role in the Middle East - Daily News Egypt: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2016/01/05/russia-is-officially-in-the-region-a-new-order-has-just-begun/

The World Order" - a new Russian documentary, with English subtitles: http://newcoldwar.org/russian-documentary-film-world-order-dec-2015-sub-titled-in-english/

Could US-Russia Tensions Go Nuclear? - Bruce Blair, Politico: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/russia-us-tensions-nuclear-cold-war-213395

Capitalism and Its Current Crisis, by Prabhat Patnaik, Monthly Review: http://monthlyreview.org/2016/01/01/capitalism-and-its-current-crisis/

China and the Changing Global Economic Order, by Mark Fleming-Williams, Stratfor: https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/china-and-changing-global-economic-order

Lack of Russia Experts Has Some in US Worried - The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/12/30/lack-of-russia-experts-has-the-u-s-playing-catch-up/

Between Terror and Tyranny: Political Islam in the Shadow of the Arab Uprisings, by Abdullah Al-Arian, Middle East Research and Information Project: http://www.merip.org/mero/mero123015

Top 10 articles about Russia and its foreign policy: http://www.russia-direct.org/analysis/best-2015-top-10-articles-about-russia-and-its-foreign-policy?utm_source=Russia+Direct+free+weekly+newsletters&utm_campaign=73209b26be-RD_Newsletter_dec_28_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cd2cf54b82-73209b26be-78564381

The Seven Deadly Sins of Russia Analysis, by Michael Kofman: http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-russia-analysis/

After Stalin - CNN Cold War documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXm7Mm-w_aA

Russia Isn't (and Wasn't) Isolated - Mark Adomanis, Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2015/11/17/russia-isnt-and-wasnt-isolated/

After Paris attacks, critics warn against "wars of vengeance" - http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/after_paris_attacks_critics_warn_against_wars_of_vengeance_20151115

We are in pitiless times - Vijay Prasad, OpenDemocracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/vijay-prashad/we-are-in-pitiless-times

Hey, Russia, get your crab hands out of our Internet! - Stephen Colbert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8rYQLGnWHQ

Three ways Russian foreign policy might change internaitonal law - Russia Direct: http://www.russia-direct.org/opinion/three-ways-russian-foreign-policy-could-change-international-law?utm_source=Russia+Direct&utm_campaign=715a0d8328-RD_Newsletter_nov_02_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21a9daf1a2-715a0d8328-69243537

The Kurds might be the factor to bring Russia and the West to cooperate more - Russia Direct: http://www.russia-direct.org/analysis/kurds-could-bring-russia-and-us-together-syria?utm_source=Russia+Direct&utm_campaign=715a0d8328-RD_Newsletter_nov_02_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21a9daf1a2-715a0d8328-69243537

Russian National Security Policy - a round table discussion at Brookings Institution, Washington, DC: http://www.c-span.org/video/?328551-1/discussion-russian-foreign-national-security-policy

PUNCHING FOR POWER
You are invited to a film and a discussion on the state of Canadian politics. Watch the new documentary "God Save Justin Trudeau" and take part in the follow-up discussion!
TIME: Wednesday, October 14, 6 p.m.
PLACE: Price Family Theater (Room 102), Accolade East

Vote on campus October 5-8! At York University, the voting offices will be running from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM and will be located at:
Aviva Centre
Media Rooms A and B
1 Shoreham Drive
Toronto, ON M3N 3A6

A new, more dangerous Cold War - interview with Columbia U. Prof. Robert Legvold: http://www.russia-direct.org/qa/syria-now-middle-new-more-dangerous-cold-war

Obama at UN General Assembly: http://www.c-span.org/video/?328385-2/president-obama-address-un-general-assembly

Putin at UN General Assembly: http://www.c-span.org/video/?328385-4/russian-president-vladimir-putin-address-un-general-assembly

Items from 2014-15:

Rusev in California: http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201503311148-syxq.htm

The Great Challenge: China, Russia - an American documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHwq9AE70OA#t=45

Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on the Ukraine Crisis, Jan 21: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gk5PJwGn7w

Ukraine's Geographic Challenge - a Stratfor video: https://www.stratfor.com/video/ukraines-geographic-challenge

Ukraine and Russia-West Relations, Russia Analytical Digest, Zurich

Obama on America's world role: http://rt.com/news/231279-obama-foreign-policy-power/

Global Trends 2030, US National Intelligence Council: https://globaltrends2030.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/global-trends-2030-november2012.pdf

A new Cold War? CNN discussion, Feb 8: http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/02/08/exp-gps-sestanovich-cohen-sot-putin.cnn

Donetsk rebels interviewed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if4DtaFEogg

Russia in a Changing World - Putin's speech to Russia's diplomats, Aug 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhFJWe3bFVU

"For the moment, Russia is the winner in the global geopolitical struggle" - Prof. Jonathan Adelman: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/commentary/the-moment-russia-the-winner-the-global-geopolitical-struggle

1000 years of changing European borders:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1sjHGODFHg

Doomsday Clock update: http://thebulletin.org/three-minutes-and-counting7938

2015 will be all about Iran, China and Russia, by Pepe Escobar: http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20141231/1016436434.html

Prof. Paul Robinson of the U. of Ottawa on the nature of the Donbass rebellion and Russia's role: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjshHd1u-JE

Nicolas Gvozdev. 2015: The Year of the Bear? 5 Ways Russia Can Regroup. The National Interest: http://nationalinterest.org/feature/2015-the-year-the-bear-5-ways-russia-can-regroup-11957

Dmitry Trenin: The Great Clash Explained: What Drives Dangerous Tensions between the West and Russia, Carnegie Moscow Center: http://carnegie.ru/2014/12/30/great-clash-explained-what-drives-dangerous-tensions-between-west-and-russia/hy2m

Jeffrey Tayler: How to Win Friends and Influence Putin, Foreign Policy magazine: http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/26/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-putin/

Jeffrey Sachs: How the West helped Poland but not Russia: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30483873

The Cold War documentary: Vietnam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuX6TEB4WbA&index=11&list=PL4rXQPgripyY1DPlpZSfY-MHhQwcBEEOQ

Did Putin offer to divide Ukraine? - Former Polish FM retracts his statement - http://rt.com/news/197984-politico-putin-tusk-sikorski/

Ukraine Watch: a useful website from the Center for the National Interest, Washington, DC: http://ukrainewatch.cftni.org/

THE LINKS BELOW ARE FROM THE 2012-13 SCHOOL YEAR

Feb. 5:

Feb. 3:

Da Russophile: http://darussophile.com/

Jan. 30:

Robert Kaplan on the Rise of Asia (Stratfor): http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Video/Detail/?ots591=966c9813-6e74-4e0b-b884-8ed9f3f0978c&lng=en&id=156947

Jan. 23:

Stabbing the Empire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvoa25IiUEo

Nov. 12:

Cuba, 1959-1962, CNN documentary The Cold War, Episode 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viGffhaoLDk

The Cuban Missile Crisis documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVmukseymGw&feature=related

Oct. 26:

A Soviet missile base in Germany spy planes never saw - BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20079147

Oct. 23:

The Cold War, CNN documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NEiI9Dp3TE&feature=related

Oct.21:

The Price of a 50-Year Myth (on the real Cuban Missile Crisis), Michael Dobbs, The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/opinion/the-eyeball-to-eyeball-myth-and-the-cuban-missile-crisiss-legacy.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121016&_r=3&

Oct. 16:

Cuban Missile Crisis at 50: http://cubanmissilecrisisat50.org/

Sept. 26:

Romney invested heavily in Russia: http://rt.com/politics/romney-russia-investment-us-elections-022/

Russia to remain independent power center: http://rt.com/politics/russia-remain-independent-political-590/

Russian comment on US policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan: http://rt.com/news/blogs/friendly-fire/us-afghanistan-pakistan-policy/

Sept. 11:

Russia warns Israel, US against attacking Iran: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/06/us-nuclear-iran-russia-idUSBRE88507K20120906

Feb. 8:

Putin, Russia, and the West, Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch_yJYola90&feature=relmfu

Feb. 7:

RUSSIA DIVIDED: Moscow, Feb. 4
Mass rally against Putin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW6dI9hcKVc
Mass rally for Putin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cWzWaHAPZE&feature=related
Russia without Putin: http://rutube.ru/tracks/5274133.html

Feb. 6:

Russia's Line in the Sand on Syria: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/print/134342

Feb. 1:

Russia's Reasons for Saying 'No" on Syria: http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/russias-reasons-for-saying-no-on-syria/

Uncertain World: What Russia Thinks of Syria: http://en.ria.ru/columnists/20120126/170961849.html

Anti-Putin banner faces the Kremlin: http://www.newsru.com/russia/01feb2012/raiffbanner.html

Paratroopers call on Putin not to run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aVlR_Oe3v0

The White Ring: Moscow's motorists demonstrate for honest elections: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4T439jcL7Y&feature=related

Jan. 27:

US foreign policy coup, Gen. Wesley Clark, 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oJUnG3Z6WI&feature=related

Jan. 20:

Putin, Russia, and the West, BBC documentary, Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lJILjbIoc98#!

Jan.18:

Hello class:
Sorry for the late notice, but I have to cancel today’s 4280 class. I have a health issue and need to see a doctor. Please continue reading according to the syllabus.
Best,
SP

Nov. 30

The End of USSR: 20 Year Later - conference materials: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB364/index.htm

Sept. 13

BRICS talk about a "Marshall Plan" for Europe: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/daily-mix/brics-rescue-plan-beginning-to-take-shape/article2164652/

You are invited to a lecture on nuclear disarmament by Senator Doug Roche, Sept. 20, 2:30

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Doug Roche's website: http://roche.apirg.org/public_html/index.html

Mar. 23:

Putin-Medvedev rift on Libya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2C0iCwK2Ak

Mar. 16:

Q and A on the Japanese nuclear crisis: http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/safety/nuclear-reactor-crisis-faq.html

Implications of the Japan nuclear crisis for the United States: http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/safety/senate-briefing-on-japan-nuclear-crisis.html

A warning from a Hiroshima survivor: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Japan+crisis+shows+danger+nuclear+power+Hiroshima+survivor+warns/4437324/story.html

Fukushima fears are exaggerated - Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576198421680697248.html?mod=WSJ_hp_us_mostpop_read#articleTabs%3Dvideo

No Nukes is Good Nukes, by Robert Scheer: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/no_nukes_is_good_nukes_20110315/

BACKGROUND DATA ON THE NUCLEAR DISASTER IN JAPAN:

• A concise summary of state of reactors as of Wed afternoon (Kyodo - 16 Mar): http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/201/03/78524.html

• The Guardian live blog is reporting that 10.04am "it seems ... Japan's military ... announced that the helicopters could not drop water due to high radiation levels." : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/mar/16/japan-nuclear-crisis-live

• Japan had asked for IAEA expert teams to be sent to help with environmental monitoring and dealing with the effects of radiation on human health. "Preparations for these missions are currently under way," it said. (Reuters (16 Mar)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-japan-nuclear-iaea-fire-idUSTRE72F1EK20110316

• European Commissioner for Energy Oettinger ... confirmed that France’s nuclear safety authority (Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire; ASN) had proposed the incident at Fukushima-Daiichi be rated as Level 6 on the IAEA’s International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES)
http://www.worldnuclear.org/_news_feature/index.cfm?NN_Flash=1

• Frank von Hippel “The IAEA scale is from one to 7 with 4 Three Mile a 4 and Chernobyl a 7. I would put this at 5 or 6 at this point”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42093747/ns/nightly_news/

• Fukushima Radiation Release Exceeds NRC Design-Basis Limit (Ed Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, 15 March) U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations require nuclear license applicants to show that their plants can withstand a series of design-basis accidents without releasing radiation that would exceed a given level. In particular, the whole-body dose for someone standing at the site boundary for the worst two hours of the accident cannot exceed 25 rem, or 250 milli-Sieverts (mSv). The dose rate for such a design-basis accident would be 125 mSv per hour. In comparison, the dose rate near reactor Unit 3 at Fukushima Dai-Ichi has reportedly reached 400 mSv per hour. The Fukushima accident is therefore now a beyond-design-basis accident, at least in NRC terms. http://allthingsnuclear.org/

• Frank von Hippel: 400 mSv “This is enough to give a person a lethal dose from radiation illness in 10 to 20 hours. Fortunately, this level was measured only briefly. The question is what the levels are inside the plant. I don't know.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42093747/ns/nightly_news/

• EU Commissioner Oettinger announced the general agreement reached by all parties for European stress test for nuclear power plants in all member states as well as Turkey, Russia and Switzerland following meeting on 15 March.
http://euroalert.net/en/news.aspx?idn=11995

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Some background resources that might be of interest:

• EC (2000) - Radiation protection 125 - Low dose ionizing radiation and cancer risk – (includes tables on exposure risks, see for ex p. 18-19) http://ec.europa.eu/energy/nuclear/radiation_protection/doc/publication/125.pdf

• UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (2008) Annex D on Health effects due to radiation from the Chernobyl accident "112. The accident has provided clear evidence that confirms pre-existing knowledge of the importance of 131I in the pasture–cow–milk pathway, of the need to take prompt countermeasures, of the potential high doses to the thyroids, and of the anticipated increase in thyroid cancer incidence, particularly among those exposed during childhood or adolescence.” (p. 20) http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/Advance_copy_Annex_D_Chernobyl_Report.pdf

• US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Backgrounder on Three Mile Island (lessons learned and changes implemented after the accident):
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html

• US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Backgrounder on Chernobyl, includes links to resources http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/chernobyl-bg.html

Mar. 15:

Mother Nature and Nuclear Power, by David Krieger: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/15-2

Mar. 11:

US Director of Central Intelligence James Clapper names Russia and China as greatest threats to the US: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/03/10/134433195/u-s-intelligence-head-clapper-alarms-senators-in-a-bad-way

Mar. 8:

American Debt, a documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkVuCCnS7Ug&feature=related

Mar. 7:

Russia benefits from effect of Mideast revolutions on energy supply: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/business/global/08oil.html

Mar. 5:

Are America's Best Days Behind Us? by Fareed Zakaria, Time, Mar.3: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2056610,00.html

Feb. 28:

The danger of freak nuclear war: http://www.slate.com/id/2286735/?from=rss

YOU ARE INVITED to a lecture on Ideas for Disarmament, Thursday, March 3, 2:30-4:00

Feb.14:

The Arab 1989? An analysis of the ongoing democratic revolutions in the Middle East: http://www.opendemocracy.net/print/58020?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=201210&utm_campaign=Nightly_2011-02-14%2005%3A30

Feb.12:

The West loses its favourite tyrant: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,745104,00.html

Democratization in the Middle East challenges the West: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/13/west-no-longer-honest-broker-peace

Historic Change in New Egypt - Egyptians clean up Cairo with a new sense of being masters of their country: http://www.cnn.com/video/

How non-violent protest defeats injustice - lessons from American history, by Nicolaus Mills: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/12/mills.egypt.selma/index.html?hpt=C1

Food prices as a cause of the Egyptian Revolution: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/jeff-rubins-smaller-world/food-whats-really-behind-the-unrest-in-egypt/article1898470/

Eighteen Days That Shook the Middle East: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/937617--eighteen-days-that-shook-the-middle-east

Feb.11:

This is the clip that sparked off the Egyptian Revolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgjIgMdsEuk

Feb.9:

ATTENTION: a teach-in at York on "Turmoils in the Mideast", Thursday, Feb.10, VH 2187

Feb.8:

What keeps Mubarak on his throne: http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/mohammed-hussainy/what-keeps-mubarak-on-his-throne

Toward post-Islamist Mideast: http://www.opendemocracy.net/asef-bayat/egypt-and-post-islamist-middle-east

The Arab Revolution and Pax Americana - a round table: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/empire/2011/02/20112875931593543.html

Egyptians who are tired of the revolution: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12387034

Feb.7:

Russia boosts defence spending, but its military potential is questionable - Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/06/moscow-s-armada.html

China's rise, America's decline, growing rivalry: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/think_again_american_decline?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full

No matter how the revolution ends, Egypt will be less pro-American: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/04/this_week_at_war_the_pakistan_scenario?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full

Mubarak holds on, US backs off, government-opposiiton talks going nowhere, revolution continues: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/world/middleeast/07egypt.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2

Feb.6:

Fear has been defeated - there's no turning back. Anderson Cooper reporting from Cairo: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/05/reporters-notebook-witnessing-egypts-uprising/

George Soros on the Egyptian Revolution: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/02/AR2011020205041.html

Feb.5:

We Are All Egyptians, Nicholas Kristoff blogging from Cairo, The NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/opinion/04kristof.html?src=me&ref=general

This is not a joke: former US Ambassador to Egypt says, "This is an ideal moment for Mubarak to show the way forward": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12374753

Egypt's political future - it is a classic fight for democracy, a discussion with Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Zizek: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2011/02/2011238843342531.html

Lesson from Egypt - Internet freedom is fragile: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/05/rushkoff.egypt.internet/index.html?hpt=C1

Feb.4:

Summing up the Day of Departure: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41433367#41433367

Human chain at Liberation Square: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/02/04/ac.egypt.land.king.cnn?hpt=Mid

Crackdown on foreign media, 1 journalist killed, 24 arrested, Al Jazeera office destroyed: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/04/egypt.protests/index.html?hpt=T1

2 detained reporters describe the horrors inside secret police headquarters: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/weekinreview/06held.html?_r=1&hp

Citizens divided: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/04/egypt.robertson.alexandria/index.html?hpt=T1

What will the Egyptian army do? http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/02/04/clancy.egypt.military.cnn

Feb.3:

Emboldened by Egypt, protests spread in the Arab world: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41415499/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

The army protects protesters in Tahrir Square: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/2011237260541818.html

Media in the line of fire in Egypt: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/201123131258705359.html

Feb.2:

CNN's Anderson Cooper beaten up by pro-Mubarak crowd: http://www.cnn.com/

Live coverage of the Egyptian revolution: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Egypt - Why the army won't shoot protesters: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54323

Egypt: Protest against systematic police torture: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54321

Into Egypt's uncharted territory, by Hesham Sallam, Joshua Stacher and Chris Toensing, Middle East Report Online: http://www.merip.org/mero/mero020111.html

Jewish prayers for Egypt's uprising, Al Jazeera TV: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/2011218490882163.html

Jan. 24

"The Rise of the New Global Elite, by Chrystia Freeland, Atlantic Monthly: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/8343/

Jan. 17

Dismantling the Empire (US, that is), by Chalmers Johnson: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175101

Jan. 4

Blast from the Past: The Nuclear Bunker Museum in Moscow - http://rt.com/news/features/nuclear-bunker-moscow-history/

Jan. 3, 2011:

UK bought Trident missiles from US in the 1980s, planning to kill 10 mln. Russians - declassified documents: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/26/secret-files-70s-trident-russians?INTCMP=SRCH

Dec. 22:

US SENATE RATIFIES THE NEW START TREATY: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12056024

Nov. 29:

"Russia and Europe", Vladimir Putin's article in Suddeutsche Zeitung: http://premier.gov.ru/eng/events/news/13088/print/

Nov. 23:

Statement of the NATO-Russia Council, Lisbon, Nov. 20, 2010: http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/news_68871.htm

Pres. Medvedev's press conference after NATO-Russia summit in Lisbon (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh-hgAqxZaA

Nov. 17:

Senate Republicans try to block New START Treaty ratification: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/world/europe/17start.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a2&pagewanted=print

US treaty behaviour is a global problem - Antonia Chayes, International Security

Nov. 6:

Was the Cold War Inevitable? A roundtable discussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBs1RuhzSmE&feature=channel

Oct. 30:

NATO should align itself with Russia, but be wary (Ottawa Citizen): http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/bear+country/3738164/story.html

Sept. 28:

THE CLASS IS MOVED TO STONG 219

Sept. 22

The struggle for the Arctic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11381773

Sept. 14

Paradigm Shift: Rising powers and the world order - http://rt.com/About_Us/Programmes/CrossTalk/2010-09-14/596485.html

Sept. 13

Russia should go with the US, not the EU - Charles Kupchan: http://rt.com/Politics/2010-09-08/clifford-kupchan-interview-russia.html

Central Asia close to chaos due to US presence in Afghanistan: http://rt.com/Politics/2010-08-03/us-central-asia-chaos.html

The Katyn case: epilogue - http://rt.com/About_Us/Programmes/XL_Reports/2010-09-13/594385.html

Kursk 1943: The biggest tank battle in history - http://rt.com/About_Us/Programmes/XL_Reports/2010-08-24/555634.html

Von Braun vs. Korolyov: the duel of the space conquerors - http://rt.com/About_Us/Programmes/XL_Reports/2010-07-31/586933.html

History of the car bomb: http://rt.com/About_Us/Programmes/XL_Reports/2010-07-16/585907.html

Feb. 10

The Obama Disarmament Paradox: http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-obama-disarmament-paradox

The Revolution Televised, The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/nov/27/pressandpublishing.comment/print

Feb. 2

Hillary Clinton on The Future of European Security: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/01/136273.htm

Deficits may alter US politics and world tole - NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/us/politics/02deficit.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

Obama's budget kills NASA's back-to-the-moon program: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102145.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

Former Australian MP praises Putin's leadership: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/putin-marks-10-years-of-extraordinary-achievement-20100110-m0n1.html

Jan.1

Russia's Armageddon plan to save Earth from collision with asteroid: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/30/russia-plan-save-earth-asteroid

Dec. 17

Worth reading: What the US can learn from Soviet experience in Afghanistan: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/print/65674

Dec. 15

Recommended additional online sources on Russia

President Medvedev's videoblog: http://eng.kremlin.ru/sdocs/vappears.shtml

Russia Beyond the Headlines: http://rbth.ru/

Russia: Other Points of View: http://russiaotherpointsofview.com/

Nov. 22

Attention those interested in graduate studies! Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton U. is inviting applications: http://www2.carleton.ca/eurus/

Nov. 18

Nuclear weapons around the world, 2009

Take Me Back to Constantinople, by Edward Luttwak: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/19/take_me_back_to_constantinople

Nov. 15

Devil in the details - update on US-Russia START follow-on talks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcF6g3V655s&feature=related

Nov. 10

Now here is a World War II documentary that does justice to what happened on the Eastern Front. "Stalingrad": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fcsWo1ZXcE&feature=related

Nov. 9

"The American Empire Will Collapse by 2020", Johan Galtung: http://russiatoday.com/Best_Videos/2009-10-30/american-empire-collapse-2020.html

Oct. 30

President Medvedev on Victims of Repressions Remembrance Day: Don't gloss over Stalin's crimes! - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/world/europe/31russia.html?em

Mevedev's video address, with English subtitles: http://eng.kremlin.ru/sdocs/speeches.shtml

Oct. 28

Equating Soviet Union with Nazi Germany is absurd, driven by current political agendas on E. Europe's right-wing nationalists: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/09/second-world-war-soviet-pact

Oct. 27

US Vice President Biden's speech in Bucharest: download

Oct.22

YOU ARE INVITED - to a public forum to discuss nuclear disarmament: download

Oct. 11

Noam Chomsky likens right-wing media to Nazi Germany - FORA.TV: http://fora.tv/2009/10/06/Noam_Chomsky_Philosophies_of_Language_and_Politics#Chomsky_Likens_Right-Wing_Media_to_Nazi_Germany

Oct. 7

SHORT PAPER TOPICS

REMINDER: -- Tomorrow, you are invited to attent this seminar on Islam and nationalism in Central Asia next Thursday: download

Watch the new PBS documentary on Afghanistan, OBAMA'S WAR: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamaswar/?utm_campaign=ObamasWar&utm_medium=NewsSiteTarget&utm_source=image

"What I saw at the Afghan Election" , by Peter Galbraith, recently fired as deputy chief of the UN mission in Kabul: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100202855.html

The Commissar - a classic movie about the Russian Civil War, with English subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gq4YymKvxs

Oct. 3

This Tuesday! A conversation with Canada's Ambassador to Serbia on post-communist change in Europe: download

Oct. 1

You are invited to attend this seminar on Islam and nationalism in Central Asia: download

Sept. 25

President Obama's first speech at the United Nations General Assembly (audio) - http://stream.state.gov/streamvol/libmedia/usinfo/4770/eng/ia_eng_092309_fea_obama_unga.mp3

Mikhail Gorbachev: Two First Steps on Nuclear Weapons - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/opinion/25gorbachev.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

William Pfaff on Obama's policy towards Russia: http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/20090923_a_puzzling_dangerous_us_policy_comes_to_an_end/

May 6

Map: Oil routes of Central Asia and the Caucasus

March 31

"Building Russian-US Bonds", President Medvedev's article in the Washington Post: http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2009/03/31/1659_type104017_214519.shtml

Russia unveils an Arctic policy: http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20090330/120824719.html

Sen. Chuck Hagel advocates nuclear disarmament: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DpW5Ct72W4&feature=channel_page

Economic crisis in Russia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNXICGNIlVA&feature=channel

America will collapse like the USSR - Dmitry Orlov: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmTBnhOXufg&feature=channel

Sen. Bill Bradley's lecture on US-Russian relations, Princeton University, Dec. 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h170Z0ylNvY

March 18

President Medvedev announces a program of Russia's rearmament: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02oC3F5nx0k

President Medvedev's videoblog