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…kans, where it served as a de facto accomplice to the Serbs. Power recounts that Vieira de Mello was touring the former Soviet Union while Serbian General Ratko Mladic presided over the systematic slaughter of every Bosnian man and boy in his custody, some eight thousand in all....

…ctrine known as MAD, for mutual assured destruction. The doctrine assumed that no matter how bad things got between the Soviet Union and the United States—the 1962 Cuban missile crisis being a case in point— neither side would risk annihilation. The leaders of Iran do not think t...

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…itled Mediastan, which concerned WikiLeaks’s exposure of U.S. secret operations in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union. It was a project that took her to Russia and provided her with a multi-entry Russian visa. In June 2012, after the extradition order was upheld,...

…h might explain why oft-criticised Andrew and former Prime Minister Tony Blair spend so much time visiting the sometime Soviet State. What does the snow have in common with the recession? Every other country can get out of both but Britain can't get out of either. HAPPY news: pri...

the Soviet prosecutors dropped the espionage charge and took the death penalty off the table. But they were still determined to see Sharansky die in prison. The Soviets called it “special regime” imprisonment

a Jewish impresario who brought musicians to the United States from the Soviet Union—went awry and a young Jewish woman named Iris Kones died from inhaling smoke from a bomb that was intended to disrupt but not to kill. Because the bomb was inherently dangerous and caused death

or were they scapegoats of the cold war whose execution was a grave miscarriage of justice? That both are true is the intriguing argument of [the new book.]

…binet member of the Israeli government. When I represented him his name was Anatoly Sharansky and he was an imprisoned Soviet refusenick. His mother and wife asked me

the consensus regarding human rights was beginning to change. Although the Soviet Union had long used the language of “human rights” (as well as the language of “civil rights”) as a club against western democracies

having just come from an emotional meeting of the Supreme Soviet at which he had sought emergency powers to confront the ongoing crisis. I introduced myself to him as he was eating dinner and we had a lengthy conversation in which I asked him to come with me to the synagogue and...

…rnia caused him to lose faith in the politics of the left. Gorbachev, a lifelong Communist, was desperate to reform the Soviet economy and make it more competitive. He, also, had come to see the hypocrisies that could emerge in far left-wing ideology. I don’t believe this common...

…tacked Syria’s air defenses in eastern Lebanon. When a second wave screamed in an hour later, the Syrians sent up their Soviet-made MiGs to intercept them. Forty-one Syrian planes were shot down. Seventeen of the 19 SAM batteries were destroyed by the end of the day. The other tw...

…earing an elegant grey suit and dark tie, he walked with a spry step. Since he had served in counterintelligence in the Soviet Embassy in Washington D.C. for nearly a decade, he spoke flawless English, I began the interview with one of the more celebrated cases he handled: the K...

…h might explain why oft-criticised Andrew and former Prime Minister Tony Blair spend so much time visiting the sometime Soviet State. What does the snow have in common with the recession? Every other country can get out of both but Britain can't get out of either. HAPPY news: pri...