German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck once observed that the Russian cavalry are “slow to saddle up, but ride fast.” In the case of Ukraine this week, the Kremlin’s cavalry cut off Ukraine’s move to the West last week, dealing the European Union its biggest defeat – and first geographical reversal — since the end of […]
Russia’s Putin Uses Political Karate To Keep Ukraine from Moving West
Posted November 25th, 2013 at 8:11 pm (UTC+0)
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Latinas Rule! Africans, Asians and Europeans Pushed Aside in Moscow’s Miss Universe Contest
Posted November 12th, 2013 at 9:05 am (UTC+0)
OK, I did not interview Miss Venezuela. I did not think the Miss Universe jury in Moscow would really fall for the latest plastic product of Venezuela’s beauty queen assembly lines. Last week, at a press availability for the Misses, I could not fail to miss Miss Venezuela, Maria Gabriela Isler. Her blinding white teeth […]
