Tag: Russia
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How a First Putin-Trump Summit Might Go
As the character of our next POTUS—Donald Trump—blooms right before our very eyes, it occurs to me it is not too soon to start imagining how future events might play out. Take that first Trump summit with Russia President Vladimir Putin. A lot is going to be riding on that one. Trump and Putin had…
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A Plug for Unions
The New York Times published a story yesterday about a study (done at Harvard and elsewhere involving income data from millions of people) that found In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters. If you’re born in the bottom 20 percent in New York City, for instance, you’ll wind up on average around the 40th percentile. People…
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Palin’s understated brilliance
I know all of us are holding our breath for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to wow America all over again during her vice-presidential debate with Delaware’s Sen. Joe Biden Thursday night. One newspaper has called Mrs. Palin’s debating skills “formidable.” The New York Times says she’s a confident debater. In fact, the Obama campaign, calling…
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Georgian Nights and Days
A friend elsewhere (on Facebook) criticized my post yesterday about the Caucasus crisis. He said, in part: “with due respect, I’m a bit worried that even avowedly progressive people like you in America seem to hold rather one-sided view of the current South Ossetia crisis: without apparently/admittedly realising that a mirror-image history of our action…
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Russian Rampage
“If the world is not able to stop Russia here, then Russian tanks and Russian paratroopers can appear in every European capital.”–Alexander Lomaya, secretary of Georgia’s National Security Council I am a great admirer of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (I have that proverbial bridge to sell to anyone who thinks President Dmitri A. Medvedev…
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All around failure
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U.S. Serbs Saddened and Angry By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, April 04, 1999 Lana Todorovich was on the phone to Belgrade with an urgent message for her parents: “Get out. Now.” In the early hours of March 24, U.S. NATO warplanes bearing bombs were on their way to Yugoslavia. Milan and Yela Simic, 62 and 57 years old, heeded their daughter’s warning. They made…
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Rudy Rips Probe Of Diplo Fight
January 2, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Giuliani yesterday accused the State Department of dragging out its probe of Sunday’s slugfest between city cops and diplomats from Russia and Belarus. In his latest lashing over the envoys’ invocation of diplomatic immunity, the mayor demanded that federal officials immediately back the…
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3 SOVIET EMIGRES END UP IN GOLF CRISIS
By Michael O. Allen and Patricia Alex, Record Staff Writers | Friday, July 19, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A01 Police say a trio of Soviet emigres caught sopping wet after diving for golf balls in Rockleigh Golf Course ponds early Thursday were carrying free enterprise a bit…
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SOVIET EMIGRES HELD IN GLASSES THEFT
Englewood Cliffs police have arrested a Queens, N.Y., couple they suspect of belonging to a group of Soviet emigres who steal designer sunglasses in the United States to sell on Russian black markets.