Tag: Russia

If Ukraine were to give up regions of Russian origin, only half of the country would remain

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

If Ukraine were to give up regions of Russian origin, only half of the country would remain

Aleksey Pushkov, senator and chairman of the Russian Federation Council’s commission for information and cooperation with the media, told on TVC channel that the stories of forcible imposition of the Russian language in Ukraine are lies, that the majority of the population has spoken Russian for centuries, and reminded the followers of Ukrainian ethno-linguistic purity that if Kiev were to renounce the regions of Russian origin, which are predominantly Russian-speaking, only half of the country would remain, with no port or access to the sea.

With Fear and Favor: The Russophobia of ‘The New York Times’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

With Fear and Favor: The Russophobia of ‘The New York Times’

After World War II, it was under Sulzberger that the Times first cultivated a close relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency. In exchange for special briefings of its correspondents by Allen Dulles and others at the CIA, the Times helped to hide and justify covert interventions in Iran, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, and elsewhere that had disastrous consequences. As the young historian David P. Hadley has shown, the CIA did not control the Times; instead, there was a “friendly confluence” of interests (or, one might say, collusion).