“All that is very relevant to Afghanistan. To a startling degree, the Politburo’s 1979 deliberations about how to deal with it mirror the Bush administration’s close-minded and secretive decision-making that led to its invasion. The Bush White House might have… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Putin shot out of obscurity in 1999 by exploiting growing nostalgia for the USSR, fueled by the disappointment, uncertainty and crisis that brought… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“After Georgia’s humiliation in 2008, Yanukovych repudiated the Orange Revolution by winning the next Ukrainian presidential election in 2010, setting Moscow further at ease… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“Marxism-Leninism offered little guidance to rural Afghan society, with its ancient concepts and ways.” — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“The epidemic of HIV and AIDS, the largest in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, is even more worrisome. Registered cases in 2012 numbered more than… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“All that is very relevant to Afghanistan. To a startling degree, the Politburo’s 1979 deliberations about how to deal with it mirror the Bush… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“(The operation didn’t take place entirely smoothly. Soviet soldiers disguised as technicians placed the explosives successfully, but were forced to return because they’d forgotten… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“Russia has denied any involvement in either of the attacks. However, Irakli Porchkhidze, President Saakashvili’s deputy national security adviser at the time, told me… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“According to at least one general staff officer, no one ever actually ordered the invasion of Afghanistan. Instead, between December 10 and 30, various… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“Even worse, however, was that the soldiers hardly knew whom they were fighting, and not only because distinguishing resistance fighters from the native civilians… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“Fear has also been used to carry out a redistribution of wealth—which is to say back under the control of the state, where Putin… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“Seeking to boost the number of young believers, the Church has successfully lobbied to make classes about Russian Orthodoxy mandatory in state schools.” — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“Like most regimes not based on genuine popular support in an era of open access to information, Putin’s is inherently unstable and requires vigilant… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
