Would imagine your lived experience and work in Soviet Russia is still of immense value in rebuilding new relationships today. The old school take on things and the skill of forging new paths in times of tension is an indispensable and extremely rare quality these days.
Brilliant, Peter ... What is most dismaying from this old East European hand is the end of RFE/RL (tho hopefully with a new life from enlightened Europeans). When I covered the 'satellite' countries for the NYT back in the 1970s, RFE research was the gold standard. The problem? When traveling to any of them, I had to cut off the header & footer of EVERY PAGE to get them through customs without a huge problem....I never could persuade them to pub this on plain paper....still better than the nothing-at-all we may now be facing!
Trump has pretty much shut down America as we know it. So much so that I'm fearing there will be no elections, at least no fair elections, in 2024 and 2026. Worse, the Democrat's plan to regain the Senate and House in 2024 may already be stifled. We must act quickly....but how?
Would imagine your lived experience and work in Soviet Russia is still of immense value in rebuilding new relationships today. The old school take on things and the skill of forging new paths in times of tension is an indispensable and extremely rare quality these days.
Is the VoA of your day the same as the VoA today. Many fine institutions have been taken over by the “woke”. USAID and trans Operas, etc.
Brilliant, Peter ... What is most dismaying from this old East European hand is the end of RFE/RL (tho hopefully with a new life from enlightened Europeans). When I covered the 'satellite' countries for the NYT back in the 1970s, RFE research was the gold standard. The problem? When traveling to any of them, I had to cut off the header & footer of EVERY PAGE to get them through customs without a huge problem....I never could persuade them to pub this on plain paper....still better than the nothing-at-all we may now be facing!
Trump has pretty much shut down America as we know it. So much so that I'm fearing there will be no elections, at least no fair elections, in 2024 and 2026. Worse, the Democrat's plan to regain the Senate and House in 2024 may already be stifled. We must act quickly....but how?