October 14th, 2009After Secretary of State Clinton folded like a Kmart lawn chair to the Russians yesterday on the issue of sanctions against Iran, she went to talk to Russian students, according to the Washington Times, and resurrected the old “stuck in the Cold War” myth the Left loves so much;“We have people in our government, and you have people in your government, who are still living in the past,” she told a hall packed with hundreds of students at Moscow State University.

Peru’s Shining Path — armed Maoist villagers, not special elites of “heroic guerrillas”By Mike ElyTell No Lies posted a criticism of the article I wrote evaluating Che Guevara. And I think he gets at some important things.The theory of Foquismo (or focoism) took the experience of the Cuban revolution and tried to extend it as a universal model or formula (in countries where conditions were quite different).It was a disaster for a whole generation of Latin American revolutionaries (including for

Despite numerous invasions and devastating destruction, the Ukrainian capital of Kiev is still one of the most beautiful cities of Eastern Europe. The Communist period, which lasted barely seventy years, did it little harm. On the contrary, the new potentates of the post-WW-II era built parks and created green spaces, along with the inevitable television tower found in every former Soviet city. Cradle of the Slavs. The earliest mention of Kiev dates to the early sixth century.

      MOSCOW — With an ambitious new pipeline planned to run along the bed of the Baltic Sea, the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom is driving a political wedge between Eastern and Western Europe.  Enlarge This Image Denis Sinyakov/Reuters     Gazprom employees prepared to weld a section of a gas pipeline near the town of Novy Urengoy in December 2007.

Partial Hallucination. Six Apparitions of Lenin on a Grand Piano by Salvador Dali (1931) ♫ Boy, the way that Lenin waved NKVD fêtes depraved RSVPs, blood engraved Joe’s were the days And you’d watch your elders then Whisked off midnights by armed men Comrade, we could use an Uncle like Joe Stalin again Didn’t need no Bills of Right Civil War, Red killed off White Gee, our Sputnik sat alight Joe’s..were..the..days…♫ Marxists.org Alexander Lozovan, a civil engineer, listens to his daughter Natasha play on the piano.

As if the Obama administration didn’t have enough foreign policy problems, a new one has cropped up in the past few days and it could affect its NASA headaches, as it has to make decisions about the future of the American government’s human spaceflight program, on the basis of the report of the Augustine panel, due to arrive this month.The

                                    Tue Oct 13, 6:50 AM ET Elderly supporters of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, one of them holding his photograph, gather outside a courtroom in Moscow, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, before the hearings in a libel suit brought by Stalin’s grandson against a Russian newspaper he accuses of questioning the Soviet dictator’s honor and dignity. The grandson has contested the report that Stalin personally signed execution orders for thousands of Soviet and foreign citizens.

China and Russia signed $3.5 billion deals in Beijing ahead of a meeting between the two countries’ premiers, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said. Zhukov told reporters that more agreements would be signed when visiting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets later with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. “It’s the first time, perhaps, that such large commercial deals are being sealed in such volume between Russian and Chinese enterprises,” Zhukov said, explaining the results of a joint economic forum held in the morning.

China and Russia signed $3.5 billion deals in Beijing ahead of a meeting between the two countries’ premiers, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said. Zhukov told reporters that more agreements would be signed when visiting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets later with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. “It’s the first time, perhaps, that such large commercial deals are being sealed in such volume between Russian and Chinese enterprises,” Zhukov said, explaining the results of a joint economic forum held in the morning.

MOSCOW (AP)- A Russian court ruled against Josef Stalin’s grandson Tuesday in a libel suit over a newspaper article that said the Soviet dictator sent thousands of people to their deaths. A judge at a Moscow district court rejected Yevgeny Dzhugashvili’s claim that Novaya Gazeta damaged Stalin’s honor and dignity in an April article that referred to him as a “bloodthirsty cannibal.” The case essentially put Stalin on trial more than 50 years after his death.

MOSCOW (AP)- A Russian court ruled against Josef Stalin’s grandson Tuesday in a libel suit over a newspaper article that said the Soviet dictator sent thousands of people to their deaths. A judge at a Moscow district court rejected Yevgeny Dzhugashvili’s claim that Novaya Gazeta damaged Stalin’s honor and dignity in an April article that referred to him as a “bloodthirsty cannibal.” The case essentially put Stalin on trial more than 50 years after his death.

Russia, China seal deals worth $3.5bnChina and Russia on Tuesday cemented their burgeoning trade relationship with billions of dollars in new deals signed during a visit by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.The two sides signed several cooperation agreements, including one committing each country to notifying the other of the launch of ballistic missiles from its territory, as well as a raft of commercial accords.Russian gas giant Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation signed a

© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CorbisJoseph Stalin as a young man.On Tuesday in Moscow, a court ruled against Joseph Stalin’s grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, who had demanded $340,000 in damages from the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, for supposedly besmirching his family’s reputation by calling his grandfather a “bloodthirsty cannibal.” The independent Russian newspaper, which published the work of Anna Politkovskaya until her murder in 2006, characterized the Soviet dictator that way in an article about recently declassified documents he had signed and handed to Lavrenti Beria, his secret police chief.

The Nord Stream pipeline is back in the news this week, and unfortunately it’s not main stream press reviews of Grigory Pasko’s documentary .  The Financial Times was carrying a three-frame photo in its special Russia business pull-out section of Vladimir Putin walking by former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder at an energy summit giving him a high five, while the Andrew Kramer at the New York Times had the longer investigative piece, which is attracting a lot of attention.  One little detail I

The Nord Stream pipeline is back in the news this week, and unfortunately it’s not main stream press reviews of Grigory Pasko’s documentary .  The Financial Times was carrying a three-frame photo in its special Russia business pull-out section of Vladimir Putin walking by former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder at an energy summit giving him a high five, while the Andrew Kramer at the New York Times had the longer investigative piece, which is attracting a lot of attention.  One little detail I

The Russian Federation’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is currently visiting Beijing and signing contracts with Chinese companies. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov told Reuters last Friday that the two countries will make deals worth $5.5 billion in thirty-eight areas, including the financial industry, telecommunications, mineral extraction, natural gas, nuclear energy, oil refinement, electric power, transportation and infrastructure.

The forestry industry in Europe, the former Soviet Union and North America last year suffered the biggest decline in demand for wood since the 1970s, and that wasn’t even the worst of the news for this foundation business. The slump in the global paper and pulp industry is nearly a decade old, and industry insiders say the business is still struggling with chronic overcapacity, shrinking demand, softening prices, production cuts and layoffs as it reels under the collapsing housing markets in developed countries.

Awesome ditty in NRO titled “The Metamorphosis” by David Kahane that gets to the heart of the matter. The Metamorphosis: In which our liberal author awakens one morning from uneasy dreams . . . By David Kahane I have a nightmare. I have a nightmare that sometime before the 2010 elections, the scales will fall from your eyes and you will see us as we really are. I have a nightmare that you will read C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters and realize that it is not fiction.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was set to meet his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao in Beijing on Tuesday for talks expected to result in a raft of lucrative trade and energy agreements. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrives at the Beijing Airport, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. (AFP Photo)     Putin, who arrived late Monday, was also due to meet President Hu Jintao as the two sides seek closer ties, and attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a regional security grouping.