More on Treaties . . .
A guest post from Mark Wilcox Speaking of treaties and agreements governing the Black Sea Fleet, a couple more obscure ones are worth a glance. The first is the Document on confidence- and...
View ArticleA Paragon of Openness and Transparency? Russia and Reporting
A guest post from Mark Wilcox . . . A Paragon of Openness and Transparency? When one thinks of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, it’s a safe bet that “openness and transparency” are not the...
View ArticleRemarkably Dumb Journalism
While my post has little to do with Soviet military history, this does touch on Poland and on Harvard, so I can claim some relevance to the region and to higher education. CNN Money this morning had...
View ArticleWhew! It’s not about us!
Woo-hoo! A story about scientific ignorance NOT starring American students! The well-respected All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (hat tip to AOL.com via Johnson’s Russia List) has...
View ArticleSoviet Industrial Safety
The good folks at englishrussia.com have lots of great photo galleries on life in today’s Russia. Here’s one that’s more historical: a wonderful collection of Soviet work safety posters. The style of...
View ArticleStability in the North Caucasus?
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan had an excellent piece in the January 6 Yezhdnevnyi zhurnal (hat tip to Johnson’s Russia List; discussed by Paul Goble here) on the activities of the Federal Security...
View ArticleDressing up in SS uniforms: fun and educational
The Atlantic Monthly has reported (and other media have picked up on the story) that Rich Iott, running for Congress in Ohio, is a member in good standing of a historical re-enactment group. That in...
View ArticleStalin and Male Nudes
How did I possibly miss this story from December 2009? My thanks to the good people at Cracked for correcting my oversight, though the article mischaracterizes what Stalin was actually doing. As he got...
View ArticleA Hit, a Very Palpable Hit: Academic Jargon
Anyone who’s spent time around academia has had a close encounter of the unpleasant kind with academic jargon. To be sure, all fields have some necessary technical vocabulary required to allow for...
View ArticleHonest and Dishonest Criticism: Mitt Romney and New START
Mitt Romney launched a blistering attack in today’s Washington Post on the April 2010 New START treaty, aimed at limiting strategic nuclear weapons. On balance, I think the treaty is a good thing,...
View ArticleWhat have we learned about spying?
What have we learned from the arrests of accused Russian spies? I need to be sure to say that coming to historical or present-day conclusions about intelligence is very difficult. To borrow a concept...
View ArticleRussia’s Foreign Intelligence Service
Robert Coalson, one of bloggers over at Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s Power Vertical, has an excellent sense of timing. Just this week, he pointed his readers to the Czech domestic...
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