Archivos de Categoría: KGB

Putin I de Rusia

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El País, 25.11.2017
Pilar Bonet
Vladímir Putin ha convertido las legislativas del 2 de diciembre en un plebiscito sobre su persona. Meses después dejará de ser presidente, pero ni él ni sus ex compañeros del KGB parecen dispuestos a irse. Tiene vocación de zar. En la avenida Kutúzovski de Moscú, un coche aparcado en plena calzada impide la...
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The Moral Perils of Being Polish

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 29.02.2016
Emily Tamkin
Lech Walesa, Poland’s legendary dissident, may have been a communist informant, but that makes him neither hero nor villain — only complicated, like his country.
Untitled Lech Walesa was the leader of Poland’s 1980s opposition movement, Solidarity (Solidarnosc), a national hero, and the...
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Ukraine’s Turmoil Is a Gift for the Last Dictator of Europe

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 16.10.2015
Amy Mackinnon
The wily president of Belarus is secure at home and newly prominent abroad. Here's how he exploited Ukraine's revolution
Even before polling had opened in last Sunday’s presidential elections in Belarus, there was little doubt about who would win. Incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko was duly reelected to his fifth term with over 83...
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Who is a Better Strategist: Obama or Putin?

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Foreign Policy, 09.10.2015
Stephen M. Walt, profesor de RRII en la U. de Harvard
Pitting a former KGB agent against a former community organizer and seeing what happens in Syria
That’s not quite the right question, of course, because both leaders depend to some degree on intelligence reports and advice from trusted advisors and not just their own...
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