Fareed’s interview of Blair on how Vladimir Putin changed over his long presidency, today. From his early days was more toward west to his invasion…
truth is stranger than fiction
Fareed’s interview of Blair on how Vladimir Putin changed over his long presidency, today. From his early days was more toward west to his invasion…
Putin is the Person of the Year. The picture on the Time cover more like an assassin than a statesman. When questioned about his past…
The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War, by Catherine Grace Katz, published on September 29, 2020. As Ukrainian…
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, by Sheera Frenkel, Cecillia Kang has just been published, July 13, 2021. The two New York Times…
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-93) and Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) were great composer and writer. His violin and piano concertos are my most favorite, beautiful and sophisticated; and…
Snowden (2016) is all about the whistleblower who leaked National Security Agency (NSA) very highly classified information in 2013 while he was a Central Intelligence…
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, by Ben Macintyre, published in 2018, on the famous Russian spy Oleg…
The eighteen months long Russo Japanese War, from Feb 8, 1904 to Sept 5, 1905, stunned Russia and scored a win for Japan. One of daughters…
The Russian embassy in Beijing posted this message on their Weibo today, celebrating 160 years anniversary of Vladivostok. Here is the 8:10 min video. My first…