16.10.2015 14:54
Author: Lilia Shevtsova
Source: The American Interest LLC
The third act of Russia’s civilizational drama is near. The price Russia and the outside world will pay for the end of the former’s system will be much higher then they paid for the Soviet Union’s demise.
08.10.2015 10:28
Author: By Barbara Starr and Jeremy Diamond
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)A number of cruise missiles launched from a Russian ship and aimed at targets in Syria have crashed in Iran, two U.S. officials told CNN Thursday.
08.10.2015 03:56
Author: Masha Gessen
Source: The New York Times
Vladimir V. Putin came to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday to demand that Russia be taken seriously and treated as an equal partner by the world’s great powers.
07.10.2015 13:41
Author: By Robert Person
Source: The Washington Post
Russia has failed to achieve its key strategic objective in Ukraine. It has not replaced the post-Maidan government with one willing to grant Russia significant influence in Ukrainian policymaking. And a “frozen conflict” won’t help.
President Barack Obama gestures as he answers question from members of the media during a news conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Republican Joan Illuzzi has picked up yet another party line on the November ballot in the race for district attorney. Illuzzi, who secured the Conservative Party line in an opportunity-to-ballot primary on Sept. 10 against Democrat Michael McMahon, also received the Reform Party line, it was announced Saturday.
14.09.2015 13:20
Author: By ANDREW FOXALL
Source: NY Times
LONDON — SYRIA is being destroyed. The civil war, now more than four years old, has left the country in ruins. The implacable Islamic State controls vast areas of the north and east, and the barbaric regime of President Bashar al-Assad maintains its Damascus stronghold.
10.09.2015 05:43
Author: By Andrei Kolesnikov and Andrew S. Weiss
Source: Reuters
What else is there? An economic rebound seems improbable in the absence of high energy and commodities prices, new sources of growth or the return of the external factors that benefited Russia’s middle class during most of Putin’s time in office.
09.09.2015 14:55
Author: By Ariel Cohen
Source: atlanticcouncil.org
Sadly, instead of enacting effective anti-crisis reforms, Moscow prefers to blame it all on Uncle Sam. The cat in the tree keeps climbing. Hopefully, Western sanctions will help Russia come back to reality, and avoid a tailspin descent into chaos.
New Yorkers --
On Friday, September 25th, Pope Francis will visit New York City and lead a historic procession through Central Park. You can be a part of this once in a lifetime event!
TODAY, August 17th, 2015, Staten Island District Attorney candidate Joan Illuzzi issued the following statement regarding the White House's announcement today of a new $2.5 million "Heroin Response Strategy"
15.08.2015 02:32
Author: By Ivan Krastev
Source: NY Times
SOFIA, Bulgaria — WHEN George Kennan wrote his famous “Long Telegram,” his 1946 letter to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes that laid the foundation for America’s containment policy against the Soviet Union, he mentioned Joseph Stalin just three times — despite the fact that, by then, the Russian leader ran his country like an emperor.
29.07.2015 18:43
Author: Igor Baboshkin; Photo: Ed Amchislavskiy
Source:
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- With many of its members living on Staten Island, the NYPD's Retired Sergeants Association endorsed Republican Joan Illuzzi for district attorney Wednesday morning at headquarter on 2300 Richmond Road.
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