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-5 posts tagged "Putin"
Marie Fazio | Tuesday, February 7, 2017
“President Putin’s goals are very simple: to ‘Make Russia Great Again.’” George Liber, professor in the department of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said this in his lecture Monday night called “Back to the Future: Soviet Collapse, the Long Post-Communist Transition and Putin’s Interventions in Ukraine, 2004-2014.” This talk, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute
Neil Joseph | Tuesday, September 20, 2016
For the last year, commentators, TV personalities and seemingly every person in America (including me) has written about the danger that Donald Trump presents. Whether it’s the things he says, the hatred he taps into, or the way he treats his peers, he’s been criticized in so many different ways. Personally, these things are disqualifying
Stephen Raab | Tuesday, March 17, 2015
My first column for The Observer, published in April 2014, was “Re-evaluating Putin.” In it, I argued that the international community had been too harsh in its criticism of Russian president Vladimir Putin. While I acknowledged the missteps of the Putin administration (specifically on LGBT rights and foreign policy), I argued that he’d also been of great
Lukas O'Donnell | Monday, March 3, 2014
Is President Obama the next Jimmy Carter? In light of recent international events, this alarming question must be asked. The United States has battled the decline into the background of world affairs before in the 1970s, when nothing seemed to be going our way. Oil prices spiked out of control, Russia gained ground both internationally
Greg Hadley | Monday, February 10, 2014
If you’re like me, you’re exhausted with the endless snow and wind that keeps blasting South Bend. You’re looking for something – anything – to ward off the cabin fever that has set in. And if you’re like me, you have turned on the TV to watch the Winter Olympics, where the snow and ice