Archivos de Categoría: Rusia

Vitaly Churkin obituary

Obituario
The Guardian, 21.02.2017
Jonathan Steele
  • Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, diplomat, born 21 February 1952; died 20 February 2017. Highly respected Russian ambassador to the UN who was a tenacious, wily and witty defender of his country
[caption id="attachment_44867" align="alignnone" width="600"] Vitaly Churkin addressing the UN security council in New York in...
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How Russia became the Middle East’s new power broker

Reportaje
Newsweek, 09.02.2017
Owen Matthews, Jack Moore y Damien Sharkov
[caption id="attachment_44546" align="alignnone" width="500"] Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Eastern Economic Forum on September 4, 2015 in Vladivostok.Sasha Mordovets/Getty[/caption] On the morning of January 11, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar climbed up the companionway of an aircraft carrier floating off the...
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Angela Merkel Has a Playbook for Bullies like Trump

Artículo
Foreign Policy, 31.01.2017
Paul Hockenos, escritor residente en Berlín
  • Literally, there’s a five point plan that’s she’s been using to take down macho adversaries her entire career
Angela Merkel may not seem at first glance the hardest-nosed operator: She’s soft-spoken, physically unimposing, and and concertedly uncharismatic. But if Donald...
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Russia’s Imperial Instinct

Columna
Project-Syndicate, 16.01.2017
Carl Bildt, ex primer ministro (1991-1994), ex ministro de RREE (2006-2014) y político sueco
Russia is once again at the center of policy debates in many Western capitals. And for the third time in a row, a new US president will start his administration with ambitions to improve bilateral relations. To understand why achieving this...
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La irrealpolitik de Trump

Columna
Project-Syndicate, 28.01.2017
Shlomo Ben-Ami, ex ministro israelí de RREE y vicepresidente del Centro Internacional de Toledo
 para la Paz
Algunas personas en los Estados Unidos han elogiado al presidente electo Donald Trump por su presunto realismo; según ellas, el nuevo presidente hará lo que sea bueno para Estados Unidos, sin enredarse en espinosos dilemas morales ni dejarse...
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Another Reset with Russia?

Columna
Project-Syndicate, 24.01.2017
Robert Skidelsky, profesor de Economía Política (U. de Warwick) y miembro de la British Academy 
in History and Economics
The question of the West’s relationship with Russia has been buried by media stories of hacking, sex scandals, and potential blackmail. The dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele about US President Donald Trump’s activities in...
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Trump, Putin, Xi, and the Return of Kingship

Artículo
The Diplomat, 19.01.2017
Akhilesh Pillalamarri, analista international con Master en Estudios de Seguridad (Georgetown)
A global surge in populist and strongman leadership may herald the return of a more “natural” state of politics
An article in the Wall Street Journal toward the end of December 2016 described several Chinese sources as saying that Chinese President Xi Jinping “‘wants to keep going’ after 2022...
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Quiebre y conspiración: La revolución rusa 100 años después

Reseña de libro
El Mercurio, 15.01.2017
Roberto Careaga C.
A un siglo del levantamiento que convirtió a Rusia en la Unión Soviética, golpeando al mundo entero, se publica por primera vez en español "La revolución rusa", del historiador estadounidense Richard Pipes, un exhaustivo relato de los acontecimientos que sitúa a Lenin al frente de un grupo de conspiradores....
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Cold War Ghosts

Opinión
London Review of Books, 12.01.2017
Peter Pomerantsev
  •  ‘Russia is a mental subcontinent, the subconscious of the West. This is why we place our fears, our phobias and foibles in Russia,’ a character says in Zinovy Zinik’s novel Sounds Familiar or The Beast of Artek.
The book, published last summer, explores the way the Kremlin Menace can loom to...
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