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-16 posts tagged "Russia"
Maggie Klaers | Monday, March 15, 2021
Between the 2016 election and the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, the United States has faced growing concerns over foreign manipulation of elections. Suzanne Spaulding, a senior advisor in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said this involvement is a tool in the “Kremlin playbook,” a ploy to damage a nation’s trust in
Jack Zinsky | Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Considering all the attention the Viewpoint section is being given lately, I hope I can provide some fascinating content before the next leggings saga erupts. While leggings were the talk of Notre Dame’s campus, the talk of the country has been the Mueller report and its total vindication of President Trump. For over two years,
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, December 4, 2018
When you were in grade school, did someone in your class get everyone in trouble unfairly? And did the teacher, failing to find the culprit, simply decide to punish everyone for something that almost none of you did? You probably hated the punishment and harbored some temporary resentment towards the teacher for imposing an unfair
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, November 29, 2018
We are all caught in the middle. You, you and you and me, too — perhaps especially me, an American-born-Russian caught under the clouds that surround the U.S. and Russia today. Let this piece be an invitation, then, to gain a little perspective. What is clear is that the new movie, “The Death of Stalin,”
Sara Schlecht | Friday, October 26, 2018
Three years after the critically acclaimed “Mad Men” ended, Matthew Weiner — the show’s creator — has returned with “The Romanoffs.” In this new project, an anthology series, each episode features a different cast and a seemingly unrelated story, with the exception that some of the characters believe themselves to be descendants of the Russian
Colleen Zewe | Monday, January 22, 2018
If there’s one thing I’ve learned writing for The Observer, it is that good journalists must always avoid bias. When I was on student government, I could not write about student government events or elections, because that would be seen as me promoting a group I’m part of. Of course I wouldn’t say anything negative
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Elizabeth Blake, assistant professor of Russian at Saint Louis University and author of “Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground,” explored how the interplay between religion and politics helps to guide a nation’s decisions Tuesday night through the lens of Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky’s views on the Catholic Church and its influence on the politics of the West. According to
Stephen Raab | Tuesday, September 1, 2015
ISIL. The Islamic State. ISIS. Daesh. Known by many names, this violent extremist group has rampaged across the Middle East for more than a year since its separation from al-Qaeda. They’ve tortured and massacred prisoners, smashed and looted historical sites and launched campaigns of genocide against religious and ethnic minorities. While local governments and militias
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
Kayla Mullen | Tuesday, November 11, 2014
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies sponsored a faculty panel Tuesday in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies to discuss the significance of the events in 1989 in Eastern Europe and their importance to international