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July 1, 2007June 20, 2022Cultural Revolutions

Boris Yeltsin, R.I.P.

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On April 25, Boris N. Yeltsin, Russia’s first postcommunist leader, was buried in Moscow.  Many foreign dignitaries attended the funeral, praising the late president’s achievements.  U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton also bid farewell to their partner in dismantling the Soviet Union. Yeltsin’s death, seven years after his resignation at the dawn of...

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May 1, 2005June 21, 2022Correspondence

A Prison Without Walls

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In the second half of February, I visited Kosovo and Metohija with a Russian humanitarian team that brought 12 tons of food, medicines, and school supplies to the surrounded Serbian enclaves of Lipljan, Batuse, and Priluzje, where the inhabitants have, over two months, had their electricity, heating, and water cut off by the newly elected...