Tag Archives: RUSSIA

From Batman-Politics to a Complicated Relationship

The author examines the Europe-Russia relationship in light of past US and EU foreign policy and the current Ukraine crisis. Will American exceptionalism and its Ukrainian failure engender the more classic European relationship with Russia? Can Europe move from a Batman comic-book to return to “Je t’aime — Moi non plus”: a genuine love-hate affair between Europe and Russia, with

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VTsIOM poll shows over 90 percent of people in Crimea are positive about reunion with Russia

Over ninety percent of all residents of the Republic of Crimea are positive about the reunion with Russia that took place in March 2014, Valery Fyodorov, the head of the All-Russia Public Opinion research Center (VTsIOM), has reported. Over ninety percent of all residents of the Republic of Crimea are positive about the reunion with Russia that took place in

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«Russian military intervention in Ukraine»: The Shadow of Think Tanks

Scale of Russian military intervention in Ukraine revealed, says report’ Headline in Guardian Newspaper, 11/03/15 (later edited) Startling revelations in the Guardian Newspaper today helped to uncover the Government’s current domestic and foreign policy concerns. The report in question was produced by Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an apparently independent `think tank’ similar in many ways to the Washington `think

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ST. LAWRENCE OF CHERNIGOV: SOME PROPHECIES AND STATEMENTS ON THE UKRAINIAN SITUATION

Schema-Archimandrite Lawrence, in the world Luke Evseevich Proskura, was born in 1868 in the region of Chernigov. He reposed on the Feast of Theophany, 1950, and after his death his relics were found to be incorrupt. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized him as a saint in 1993 (commemorated on December 29/January 11 and January 6/19). Besides the gift of healing,

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