Podcast appearances and mentions of Boris Yeltsin

Christian Ray Flores has led a very unique life. Christian was born in Moscow, Russia and by the time he was nine, he had lived in four countries and spoke four languages. When he was fourteen, he was back in Russia and in 1991, he received his master's degree in Economics. Then in 1993, he entered the music entertainment industry as a singer and became an immediate success. One of his songs became an anthem for the political campaign of Boris Yeltsin. Christian met his wife Deb while at an event in Los Angeles and he told Paul that he pursued her. She moved to Russia a few months later and they were married about nine months after they met. Christian and Deb were ready for a change and moved to United States in 2004. Paul and Christian talked about all the many things they have done over the years, what he is doing now and how they have made their home in Austin, Texas.

In this episode of the Journey of My Mother's Son podcast, I talk with Christian Ray Flores. Christian was born in Moscow, Russia to a Chilean father and a Russian mother. The family moved to Chile when Christian was nine months old. During the 1973 military coup of Augusto Pinochet, Christian's father, Americo Flores, was arrested along with thousands of others and spent time in one of the infamous concentration camps. His mother Larisa and two children went into hiding under an assumed name and with a fake Argentinian passport. After Americo's release, the family spent some time in a UN refugee camp and was granted asylum in Germany, moving to Munich. After living in Germany and Russia, Americo and Larisa moved to Mozambique, at the government's invitation, which was recruiting international professionals after a mass exodus of Portuguese upon the nation's independence. Christian learned four languages by age nine: Russian, Spanish, English, and Portuguese. After his parents' divorce, Christian returned to Russia with his mother and sister in 1983. Christian got a master's degree in economics in 1991 from the RUDN University in Moscow. In 1993, Christian released his first single in Russia and became an instant success, winning awards like Generation ‘93 and Ovation in 1996 and playing nationwide. Back-to-back top ten hits culminated in his number one single, "Our Generation" – an anthem of freedom and change. It became a song widely used as the anthem of Boris Yeltsin's election campaign. Christian campaigned for Yeltsin as part of the Russian version of Rock the Vote, credited to giving Yeltsin the youth vote and victory in the campaign. After moving to the US in 2004, Christian worked for the international charity HOPE Worldwide, serving as a country director for Latin America, focusing on health care and education in nine different countries. He also developed and directed the Positive Choice education program, implemented around the US and internationally in Mexico, Jamaica, Indonesia. Christian co-founded a production company, Hollywood World, in Los Angeles with his wife, Deb de Flores. Hollywood World allowed international artists to work with top Hollywood producers and directors. Among other projects, Christian did voice acting for the English and Spanish versions of Masha and the Bear, a popular animated TV series. After moving to Austin, Texas, Christian and Deb co-founded (with Brandon Knicely) Third Drive, raising millions of dollars for startups and creating digital media projects for emerging businesses, public personalities and non-profit organizations. Christian speaks to audiences in the US and internationally, hosts the Headspace with Christian Ray Flores podcast and YouTube Channel dedicated to success in career and calling Headapace newsletter. His short film Dance With Me was selected to several international film festivals, and its title song was released on all major music platforms. In the first days of the war in Ukraine, the Ascend Mission Fund launched the Ukraine Relief Network, serving refugees in Ukraine. Christian and Deb personally visited Ukraine in September 2022. In 2022, Christian and Deb launched the Xponential career coaching program for high achievers. Christian and Deb have been active in Christian ministry in the US, Eastern Europe, and Latin America for two decades. They lead The Tribe, a community of faith in Austin, Texas. Ray frequently speaks to different audiences in the US and overseas. They are also active in philanthropy through their charity Ascend Mission Fund and projects like the Ascend Academy in Mozambique that lifts children out of poverty through developing character, communication, and computer skills. To find out more about Christian, you can check out his website at https://www.christianrayflores.com/.

My Russia reveals CNN's Jill Dougherty's transformative journey from a Cold War-era obsession with Russia to witnessing firsthand the rise of Vladimir Putin and the unraveling of a nation she grew to love. At the height of the Cold War, as a high school freshman, CNN's Jill Dougherty developed an obsession with Russia. Over the next half-century, she studied in Leningrad, traveled across the Soviet Union, lived in Moscow, and reported on the presidencies of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin. Jill's life, and Putin's, intersected. They studied at the same Russian university; Jill was named CNN Moscow Bureau Chief just as Putin began his rise to power. She knew he was a former KGB officer, but she also believed he was an economic reformer. As Putin tightened his grip on the media, she changed her mind. In 2022, reporting from Moscow as Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, she was convinced the leader with whom she once had sympathized was a tyrant threatening to destroy a country she had come to love. My Russia charts Russia's evolution through the eyes of an American with rare insight into Russia, its people, and its leaders.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Trong vòng chưa đầy hai tuần đầu của tháng 5 năm nay, Liên Hiệp Châu Âu chứng kiến nhiều sự kiện quan trọng. Tân thủ tướng Đức  Friedrich Merz một ngày sau khi nhậm chức (06/05/2025), đã sang thăm Pháp và Ba Lan, để phục hồi quan hệ ba bên trong khuôn khổ Tam giác Weimar. Hai ngày sau (09/05), Pháp cùng Ba Lan ký Hiệp ước Nancy về an ninh- quốc phòng, và ngày 10/05, các lãnh đạo Đức, Pháp, Ba Lan, Anh đã tới Kiev ủng hộ tổng thống Volodymyr Zelensky yêu cầu Nga chấp nhận ngưng bắn. Trong cục diện địa chính trị mới này, Ba Lan đóng vai trò như thế nào ?---------- ***** ----------Sự ra đời của Tam Giác WeimarTam giác Weimar, mà báo chí còn gọi là « Ủy ban Thúc đẩy Hợp tác Ba Lan với Pháp và Đức », được thành lập ở cấp ngoại trưởng ba nước vào tháng 8/1991 ở thành phố Weimar của Đức, nhằm tạo diễn đàn trao đổi, tư vấn cho Ba Lan khi đó vừa mới chọn cải tổ dân chủ đại nghị, kinh tế thị trường sau hơn 40 năm thuộc phe XHCN do Liên Xô lãnh đạo.Đó là một giai đoạn có một không hai của lịch sử châu Âu hiện đại. Tam giác Weimar là sáng kiến ngoại giao nằm trong khuôn khổ một hội nghị lớn hơn : Hội nghị 2+4 vào tháng 3/1990, quyết định việc thống nhất nước Đức. Hai + bốn tức là bốn đại cường Liên Xô, Hoa Kỳ, Anh và Pháp và hai nước Tây Đức và Đông Đức.Đến tháng 7/1990, Ba Lan được mời tham gia, vì thiếu Ba Lan thì vấn đề biên giới mới của nước Đức thống nhất với Ba Lan khó có thể ổn định được châu Âu. Rồi còn có các cuộc đàm phán để đưa các sư đoàn quân đội Liên Xô đóng ở Ba Lan về nước, thực ra là về nước Nga thời tổng thống Boris Yeltsin và cuộc rút quân này phải đến năm 1992 mới hoàn tất.Nhưng nói riêng về quan hệ Đức-Pháp-Ba Lan thì các cuộc họp trong khuôn khổ Tam giác Weimar có mục tiêu dùng mô hình hòa giải Pháp và Đức sau Thế Chiến II để giúp cho Ba Lan hòa giải với Đức, vì di sản của Thế Chiến II ở Ba Lan, quốc gia bị phát-xít Đức giết hàng triệu công dân, là rất nặng nề. Trong lĩnh vực này, Tam giác Weimar đã hoàn thành xuất sắc nhiệm vụ.Sau đó, Tam giác Weimar giúp Ba Lan chuẩn bị hành lang pháp lý (hoạt động liên nghị viện từ 1992) và quân đội (từ 1997) để có  thể gia nhập khối NATO (1999). Tức là các cuộc họp của Tam giác Weimar mở rộng từ ngoại giao sang cấp bộ trưởng quốc phòng, và sau đó thì giúp về tham vấn cải cách kinh tế cho tới khi Ba Lan gia nhập Liên Hiệp Châu Âu năm 2004.Tam giác Weimar có nhiều hoạt động chung giữa ba nước với giải thưởng mang tên thi hào Ba Lan Adam Mickiewicz tặng cho các cá nhân, chính trị gia có công xây đắp quan hệ ba bên, giúp Ba Lan trở thành một quốc gia dân chủ, thành viên NATO và EU.Tam Giác Weimar : Nỗi lo « hòa nhập mạnh là hòa tan »Sau giai đoạn 1 khi Ba Lan đã gia nhập NATO và EU, phe dân tộc chủ nghĩa ở Ba Lan không hài lòng và họ cho rằng “hòa nhập mạnh là hòa tan”. Năm 2006, tổng thống Ba Lan Lech Kaczynski thuộc phe thiên hữu dân tộc chủ nghĩa Công giáo (nông thôn) đã từ chối dự họp với lãnh đạo Pháp và Đức. Tam giác Weimar coi như bị ngưng hoạt động. Phải đến năm 2011, khi ông Boleslaw Komorowski – thuộc phái ôn hòa, từng đến thăm Việt Nam – trở thành tổng thống, Tam giác Weimar mới được phục hồi hoạt động ở cấp cao nhất.Tuy nhiên, càng về sau này thì Tam giác Weimar càng giảm đi ý nghĩa. Ví dụ sau khi vào EU, người dân Ba Lan được tự do đi lại, du học và đến làm việc ở Pháp, Đức, Hà Lan, Anh (trước Brexit)..., thì việc trao đổi sinh viên như trước đây không còn cần thiết nữa. Ngoài ra, Ba Lan đã ở trong bộ máy NATO do Hoa Kỳ lãnh đạo nên vai trò của Đức và Pháp cũng giảm đi.Chiến tranh Ukraina: Sự hồi sinh Tam giác WeimarTừ sau khi Nga xâm lược Ukraina vào năm 2022, vai trò của Tam giác Weimar được phục hồi, vì các chuyển biến địa chính trị khiến Pháp và Đức phải tìm lại một “platform” hợp tác chặt chẽ, mang tính nòng cốt với Ba Lan, nước đóng vai trò căn cứ hậu cần cho phe NATO cung cấp vũ khí sang Ukraina chống Nga.Người ta nay nói đến Tam giác Weimar +, với ý tưởng là mời Anh, và Ý tham gia, tức là, như có người nói đùa, sẽ không còn là Tam giác mà là Tứ giác, Ngũ giác. Câu hỏi ở Ba Lan là “trong hình khối đó thì cạnh nào dài nhất, quan trọng nhất”.Thắc mắc này hiện chưa có lời giải vì còn đang định hình. Nhưng sau cuộc hội đàm ở Kiev hôm 10/05 của Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, Donald Tusk và Kier Starmer cùng Volodymyr Zelensky rồi có thêm lãnh đạo Ý, Hy Lạp, rồi cả tổng thống Donald Trump điện đàm nữa, có vẻ như là vai trò hạt nhân của Pháp – Đức – Ba Lan đang được đề cao.Hiệp ước Nancy và ô nguyên tử PhápKhông chỉ hợp tác chặt với Mỹ và để Hoa Kỳ đóng căn cứ tại nước họ, Ba Lan vừa ký với Pháp Hiệp ước Nancy ngày 09/05 về an ninh quốc phòng. Pháp cho biết sẵn sàng thảo luận về việc chia sẻ ô bảo vệ bằng vũ khí nguyên tử với Ba Lan.Về điểm này, người dân Ba Lan phản ứng dè dặt, ủng hộ nhưng không mấy tin tưởng vào khả năng Pháp chia sẻ cái ô hạt nhân bảo vệ Ba Lan, dù Hiệp ước Nancy không nói thẳng ra như thế.Ví dụ nhiều giới ở Ba Lan (như Joana Jaroch-Pszeniczna, đại diện cho doanh nghiệp làm ăn với Pháp), thì ủng hộ và nhấn mạnh rằng quan hệ lịch sử, văn hóa và sự gắn bó chính trị Pháp-Ba Lan từ thời Napoleon cứu Ba Lan chống lại Nga (1807), qua các quan hệ đồng minh ở hai Thế Chiến, tới thời sau này, là nền tảng tốt cho Hiệp ước Nancy phát huy tác dụng.Nhà bình luận chuyên về nước Pháp, ông Kacper Kita thì cho rằng “từ 100 năm qua, nay là lúc hai nước gần nhau nhất”. Nhưng theo ông, còn phải chờ xem Mỹ có rút khỏi Ba Lan hay không thì Pháp mới có chỗ chen chân vào, ví dụ như thị trường vũ khí vì Ba Lan đang đặt mua vũ khí (F-35) của Mỹ, của Hàn Quốc (trọng pháo). Còn cựu Tổng tham mưu trưởng, tướng Mieczyslaw Cieniuch, phát biểu trước giới báo chí, tỏ ra ngờ vực khả năng tổng thống Macron hay người kế nhiệm ông ở Pháp sẵn sàng dùng vũ khí nguyên tử bảo vệ Ba Lan.Tuy nhiên, tướng Stanislaw Koziej, cựu Chủ tịch Hội đồng An ninh Quốc gia Ba Lan, cho rằng cần phân biệt hai loại vũ khí nguyên tử : Vũ khí của Pháp là của châu Âu, như Pháp nói, và vũ khí của Mỹ là của NATO. Vì thế, theo ông, Ba Lan cần thận trọng, vẫn phải làm sao giữ cam kết của Mỹ bảo vệ các nước NATO châu Âu bằng ô nguyên tử. Theo ông, vì Hoa Kỳ ở xa châu Âu, khả năng bị tấn công bằng vũ khí hạt nhân chiến thuật thấp hơn các nước châu Âu gồm Anh và Pháp nên Mỹ có ưu thế hơn. Tuy thế, nếu Pháp bán lò phản ứng nguyên tử cho Ba Lan thì Ba Lan sẽ rất hoan nghênh.Ba Lan : Sườn đông của NATO « vẫn chưa sẵn sàng »Tại Ba Lan, khá nhiều khẩu hiệu ái quốc và cả biểu ngữ mời gọi thanh niên nhập cũ đăng trên đường phố. Lý do là vì Ba Lan không còn chế độ quân dịch (nghĩa vụ quân sự), mà chỉ có quân đội chuyên  nghiệp, lính tình nguyện. Anh và Pháp là hai nước châu Âu duy nhất thuộc NATO có vũ khí nguyên tử. Còn Ba Lan tuy không có tên lửa hạt nhân nhưng đã tăng chi tiêu quốc phòng rất nhanh, mua hàng nghìn cỗ trọng pháo, hàng trăm xe tăng và phi đội F-35 để phòng thủ, sau khi Nga đánh Ukraina vào tháng 2/2022.Tuy thế, báo chí Ba Lan vẫn xem sự chuẩn bị của chính phủ là chưa đủ nhanh, chưa đủ mạnh. Tính theo các kế hoạch của chính quyền, phải đến năm 2030, Ba Lan, với dân số 37,5 triệu, mới có đủ 6 sư đoàn bộ binh trang bị hiện đại. Có thể lúc đó đã muộn chăng ?Theo đánh giá từ chuyên gia Marek Budzisz, nếu bị tấn công từ phía Đông vào lúc này, Ba Lan chỉ cầm cự được chưa tới 2 tuần và có thể mất toàn bộ vùng bờ Đông sông Vistula, tức là một nửa lãnh thổ. Do vậy, nhiều tờ báo cho rằng Ba Lan cần đưa toàn dân vào tình trạng sẵn sàng chiến đấu, theo mô hình Phần Lan, để có hàng triệu quân dự bị chờ chống trả Nga.Hiện nay ở Ba Lan ai muốn đi tập quân sự 3 tháng thì công ty, công sở phải cho nghỉ làm ăn lương và quân đội sẽ bố trí các khóa huấn luyện quân sự cho họ. Những ai trong độ tuổi bị điều động muốn vào lính một năm thì nhà nước sẵn sàng tuyển.Từ cuối năm 2024, Ba Lan đưa tập quân sự trở lại trường phổ thông, để học sinh 14 tuổi trở lên học về kỹ năng ứng phó khi có tình trạng khẩn cấp, làm quen với các loại vũ khí mô phỏng, ví dụ súng bắn laser trên máy tính, trò chơi điện tử... Chỉ có sinh viên 21 tuổi trở lên, nếu muốn, mới được học bắn súng thật.Chiến tranh Ukraina : Ba Lan không tin vào « thiện chí » của NgaĐa số người dân Ba Lan không tin cuộc chiến ở Ukraina sẽ chấm dứt trong 2-3 tháng tới, khác hẳn những gì chính quyền Trump tự khen tiến triển đàm phán với Nga về Ukraina. Một điều tra của United Surveys (cho trang Wirtualna Polska) được báo Ba Lan đăng hôm 05/04/2025 cho thấy 65,1% người được hỏi không tin là cuộc chiến ở Ukraina sẽ sớm chấm dứt, và  14,2% cho rằng “không  biết, khó trả lời”.  Điều đáng chú ý là điều tra dư luận của CBOS cho thấy chỉ có người lao động, công nhân, kỹ thuật viên tỏ ra sẵn sàng tham gia bảo vệ tổ quốc, trong khi tầng lớp có học, có tiền thì không, thậm chí cho rằng, nếu “có biến”, họ lái xe chạy ra nước ngoài. Điều này trái với luật Tổng động viên của Cộng hòa Ba Lan (bản mới tháng 19/2024), quy định người đã có thẻ dự bị quân sự phải có mặt ở đơn vị quân sự gần nhất trong vòng 6 tiếng đồng hồ sau khi tổng thống Ba Lan tuyên bố tổng động viên. Số người được điều động sẽ gồm khá nhiều phụ nữ, chứ không chỉ có đàn ông, ví dụ sinh viên y khoa là nữ, y tá, hộ lý, kỹ sư hóa học...Đối với những người song tịch, luật Ba Lan quy định những ai có cả quốc tịch một nước thuộc khối NATO thì không cần phải trình diện với lãnh sự quán Ba Lan tại nước đó, bởi đằng nào thì thanh niên nam ở những nước thành viên NATO cũng thuộc sự quản lý của nước sở tại và Ba Lan sẽ không đi truy tìm công dân song tịch ở các nước đồng minh.Một điều tra dư luận khác của CBOS mới được công bố hôm 15/04/2025 cho thấy một bức tranh khá bi quan về tình hình an ninh khu vực Đông Âu và Baltic, theo đa số người dân Ba Lan. Họ nghĩ rằng nước Nga không phải là một quốc gia bình thường, và còn thiếu vắng kiểm soát quyền lực hay cơ chế giám sát chéo hơn cả thời Liên Xô, khi tổng bí thư Đảng Cộng sản ít nhiều còn phải chịu trách nhiệm trước Bộ Chính trị.Nước Nga ngày nay, theo đa số người dân Ba Lan, là do tổng thống Vladimir Putin và một nhóm rất nhỏ quanh ông ta điều khiển, và đã bước vào con đường chiến tranh, đã quân sự hóa nền kinh tế để phục hồi đế chế Nga, nên mối đe dọa trực tiếp từ Nga với Ba Lan là thường trực và lâu dài, chừng nào còn ông Putin.Đối với Ba Lan, an ninh khu vực là vấn đề lâu dài và mang tính sinh tử. Một mặt họ vẫn phải chờ xem Mỹ và NATO làm gì và đang tăng cường liên kết với Pháp, Anh và Đức, mặt khác họ không tin tưởng gì vào “thiện chí” từ nước Nga hiện nay và không tin là cuộc chiến ở Ukraina chấm dứt nhanh chóng.

The Naked Pravda interviews journalist and author Jill Dougherty about her new memoir, My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin, where she recounts her experiences studying and working in Russia. Dougherty talks about early influences, such as discovering the Russian language through an eccentric schoolteacher and later watching the Moon landing from a Leningrad dormitory. She shares insights from her decades-long career at CNN, covering key events from the presidencies of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin. Dougherty also discussed contemporary challenges in understanding Russia, restrictions on Western journalists, and the implications for future Russia experts.Как поддержать нашу редакцию — даже если вы в России и вам очень страшно

Find us at www.crisisinvesting.com In this episode, we discuss navigating current confusing times, covering a wide range of topics from the ongoing war in Russia and US political uncertainties, to financial market trends and the declining value of the dollar. We delve into the impact of Trump's actions and inactions on domestic and international issues, the role of gold as a stable investment, and the societal implications of financial chaos in the US. Additional discussions include historical tidbits about figures such as Joshua Norton and Boris Yeltsin, reflections on the Catholic Church's evolution, and speculations about the future. Tune in for a comprehensive conversation that combines current affairs, historical context, and personal insights. 00:00 Introduction and Current Global Confusion 01:19 Political Promises and Indictments 03:14 Market Uncertainty and Investment Strategies 06:37 The Decline of the Dollar and Global Implications 13:16 Living in South America: A Personal Perspective 14:28 Historical Events and Figures 17:06 The Catholic Church and Religious Musings 31:10 Concluding Thoughts and Upcoming Discussions

My Russia reveals CNN's Jill Dougherty's transformative journey from a Cold War-era obsession with Russia to witnessing firsthand the rise of Vladimir Putin and the unraveling of a nation she grew to love. At the height of the Cold War, as a high school freshman, CNN's Jill Dougherty developed an obsession with Russia. Over the next half-century, she studied in Leningrad, traveled across the Soviet Union, lived in Moscow, and reported on the presidencies of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin. Jill's life, and Putin's, intersected. They studied at the same Russian university; Jill was named CNN Moscow Bureau Chief just as Putin began his rise to power. She knew he was a former KGB officer, but she also believed he was an economic reformer. As Putin tightened his grip on the media, she changed her mind. In 2022, reporting from Moscow as Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, she was convinced the leader with whom she once had sympathized was a tyrant threatening to destroy a country she had come to love. My Russia charts Russia's evolution through the eyes of an American with rare insight into Russia, its people, and its leaders.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

From Soviet Struggles to American Success: How do you go from poverty in Mozambique to becoming a pop icon in Russia, then leave it all behind to build a thriving life and business in America? Christian Ray Flores has lived a life that defies the odds—rising to the top of the music charts, helping elect Boris Yeltsin, and then reinventing himself as a high-performance coach, entrepreneur, and leader. In this powerful episode of On The Homefront, Jeff Duden and Christian explore resilience, reinvention, and the deep lessons learned along the way. Christian shares raw stories of his childhood struggles, his unexpected path to faith, and how he discovered that true success isn't about fame—it's about impact. What's holding you back from aiming higher in your life? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

From Soviet Struggles to American Success: How do you go from poverty in Mozambique to becoming a pop icon in Russia, then leave it all behind to build a thriving life and business in America? Christian Ray Flores has lived a life that defies the odds—rising to the top of the music charts, helping elect Boris Yeltsin, and then reinventing himself as a high-performance coach, entrepreneur, and leader. In this powerful episode of On The Homefront, Jeff Dudan and Christian explore resilience, reinvention, and the deep lessons learned along the way. Christian shares raw stories of his childhood struggles, his unexpected path to faith, and how he discovered that true success isn't about fame—it's about impact. What's holding you back from aiming higher in your life? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

On Wednesday's show: With Donald Trump's second inauguration less than two weeks away and another session of the Texas Legislature just days away, we preview the early days of the second Trump administration and the 89th Texas Legislature as we discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup.Also this hour: In this month's installment of The Full Menu, Houston food writers discuss their favorite places to get crawfish and other Cajun and Creole dishes.And we revisit the story of the time Russian leader Boris Yeltsin visited a Houston grocery store and the role it played in in ending communism.

Christian Ray Flores was at one point, the most famous pop star in Russia. His rise to fame and subsequent search for something more is a story for a Hollywood blockbuster. How does the son of Marxist parents go from Chilean refugee to international pop star and finally to America? Christian's insights on freedom and entrepreneurship and his perspective on how cultural Marxism corrodes Western Civilization after having lived in three countries that experimented with the ideology, is a warning to all young American's who believe these systems work. Christian loved America so much, he wrote Little Book of Big Reasons to Love America! This is a powerful episode for everyone who wants to know what it takes to get through the hard times...and to dream big.What you will learn in this episode: • The bumpy life from refugee to Pop Star• Meeting Michael Jackson• The influence of Western television• Becoming a Christian • The immigrant's drive for success• Thoughts on the current administration's Immigrant Policy ABOUT CHRISTIAN RAY FLORES: Christian Ray Flores' story is one of extraordinary transformation and resilience. As a child refugee in Chile, raised in Africa, he became a top pop star in Russia, with his hit “Our Generation” serving as an anthem in President Boris Yeltsin's campaign against the Communists. Today, Christian is a US-based entrepreneur, evangelist, and philanthropist with a Master's in Economics, fluency in four languages, a social following of 60,000, and a weekly newsletter reaching 22,000. He is currently promoting his Little Book of Big Reasons to Love America, in which he shares powerful insights from the perspective of an immigrant who experienced life under tyranny. Websites: www.xponential.life/. www.christianrayflores.comHOST OF AWAKENED NATION: Brad Szollose. www.awakenednationpodcast.com

Every year, the release of the State Papers reveals a treasure trove of opinions, views and attitudes all committed to paper by ministers, diplomats and officials who wrote safe in the knowledge that the documents wouldn't be revealed to the public for 30 years.This year thousands of declassified documents are being released relating mostly to 1994. Irish Times journalists Mark Hennessy and Ronan McGreevy have spent a week reading through the files – from official memos to personal notes – in search of the stories, views and attitudes from 30 years ago that reveal a side to Irish officialdom previously under wraps.It was a pivotal year for politicians, the Catholic Church and Anglo-Irish affairs – and for Irish dancers when Riverdance debuted, the Irish football team at the world cup, for taoiseach Albert Reynolds who stood waiting – in vain – on the tarmac in Shannon Airport for an ‘unwell' Russian president Boris Yeltsin to make an appearance, and so much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On December 31, 1999, Boris Yeltsin stepped down and handed Russia's reins to Vladimir Putin, the former KGB officer he had named prime minister months earlier -- and who remains in power to this day. Analyst and author Mark Galeotti joins the host to discuss Putin's 25-year rule.

Send us a textIn this episode, we look at three major stories that all happened in the early summer of 1992. 1. H. Ross Perot decides to enter the race for President after getting over 200,000 signatures to get him on the ballot in Texas. When he decides to enter the race he is polling in first place ahead of both President George Bush and the Democratic presumptive nominee Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. It is a story that shakes the political class to its core as it heads into the Convention season2.  Boris Yeltsin comes to Washington D.C. and meets with President Bush and they begin negotiating an Arms reduction deal that would see the Nuclear arsenal of both countries not cut by a third but to a third of what they had at that moment just after the Cold War had ended. It was a major achievement for George Bush that is lost often in the retelling of the 1992 election. Plus this segment  will also give you a feel for a State Dinner if you have never witnessed one. 3. Senator Al Gore of Tennessee is selected by Bill Clinton to be his Vice Presidential running mate. It would be a ticket made up of youth and it will signal a sea change in the generational leadership of the country. Both men are in their mid forties, Gore 44, and Clinton 45, and both men are from the South and that will help undercut President Bush in what had been his strongest geographical base of support  in the country. It is a big moment in the 1992 campaign, just as we head into the conventions for the two major political parties in America.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Christian Ray Flores is an entrepreneur, evangelist, international recording artist, and philanthropist. From a childhood as a refugee, he has forged an extraordinary path as a successful artist, entrepreneur, speaker, and leader. Christian founded Xponential as a coaching program and community for world changers to thrive for life. His book, Little Book of Big Reasons to Love America, will be published in December. In this episode, you'll hear about: Christian Ray Flores's immigrant journey across continents and cultures Influence in the post-Soviet music scene and Boris Yeltsin's campaign Transition from philanthropy to entrepreneurship in multiple countries Importance of storytelling in securing business investments Unique challenges and opportunities for immigrants in America Follow and Review: We'd love for you to follow us if you haven't yet. Click that purple '+' in the top right corner of your Apple Podcasts app. We'd love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast. Supporting Resources: Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianrayflores/ Website - https://www.xponential.life/ https://www.christianrayflores.com/  https://www.xponential.life/score https://bigreasonstoloveamerica.us/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu42B1bTH9A  https://ascend.academy/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqT2PzQX0Ks  Alcorn Immigration Law: Subscribe to the monthly Alcorn newsletter Sophie Alcorn Podcast: Episode 16: E-2 Visa for Founders and Employees Episode 19: Australian Visas Including E-3 Episode 20: TN Visas and Status for Canadian and Mexican Citizens Immigration Options for Talent, Investors, and Founders Immigration Law for Tech Startups eBook Alcorn Academy course for best practices for securing the O-1A visa, EB-1A green card, or the EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) green card—the top options for startup founders. Use promotion code EAB20 for 20% off the enrollment fee.

Send us a textIn our Season finale of the historic year that was 1991, we look at the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Soviet Union itself. It began in a bloody revolution that saw the execution of not only Czar Nicholas the second but also his entire family including his young daughters. In the 69 years it officially existed and in the five years before that after the Russian Revolution, it saw its revolution spread to many other countries and its own power spread across 11 time zones, and all across Eurasia. It became a world , nuclear Super Power in parity with the United States militarily. However, it never had any kind of real economic strength and it had all the weaknesses of a command economy. That was what eventually brought it down. It had seen Lenin, a bloodthirsty dictator in Joseph Stalin, a wily, constantly experimenting in economics and Agriculture and cabinet shuffling leader in Nikita Khrushchev, the cunning, pragmatic, and cautions 20 year rule of Leonid Brezhnev, and then a succession of two old, relatively ill, and brief Presidents in Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko before a young, vibrant, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985. Gorbachev would serve 6 years and try and reform, and save his country. It would be the reforms he let loose that would bring his country its first taste of political and economic freedom. Once it was tasted that freedom, it could not be turned back and Gorbachev, ever the committed Communist, continued to try and manage it all without totally overhauling the system. In that he failed. On Christmas Day, 1991, he resigned the Presidency of the Soviet Union and the once proud hammer and sickle flag of the USSR was taken down from over the Kremlin and the flag of the Russian Federation was flown in its place. The Soviet Union, began in blood shed, and revolution,  vanished quietly in the night with a phone call to the President of the country it had been at Cold War with for nearly half a century.  Cold Case Western AustraliaThey're the crimes that continue to haunt grieving family members and the wider...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyQuestions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Send us a textIn over a thousand years of Russian history only one man can lay claim as having been elected directly from the people. His name was Boris Yeltsin. He is the man who pushed the Soviet Union over the cliff and then became the leader of the fledgling Russian Federation. He stood on a tank in defiance of a coup that was trying to seize control of the nation from the President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, and while that coup failed to topple Gorbachev, it in effect, stripped all the power away from the USSR President and all the real bonds of the republics that held it together. By the end of 1991, the various republics of the old Soviet Union had declared themselves independent and Yeltsin got together with their leaders of those republics to form a new Federation, leaving Gorbachev and the Soviet Congress with no real country to rule. The Politburo would meet one last time to debate the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This all occurred as one man rose to power in the Russia and it would be him who would lead Russia up until the start of the 21st century . In this episode we look back at him, Boris Yeltsin, and how he rose to the position of President and how he did as the new nations leader.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Send us a textIn our second part of our look at both the fall of the Soviet Union and of its final leader Mikhail Gorbachev, we look back at his life and his career. we listen to the man himself and hear his thoughts after the dissolution of the Soviet Union had occurred. We will also examine one of the ultimate of ironies for this historic figure of the 20th century. By the time of his death at age 91, Mikhail Gorbachev, had become a loved and admired figure around the world, and yet he was shunned in his own country. The new leader of Russia said of the demise of the Soviet Union "It was the worst catastrophe of the 20th Century"  Vladimir Putin, while sending condolences to the Gorbachev family and visiting the wake of the last Soviet Union, sent his regrets that he was to busy to attend the funeral of the last President of the Soviet Union and a giant in the history of the world, Mikhail Gorbachev.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Send us a textAs we begin our four part look back at the fall of the Soviet Union, we begin by looking back at the man who presided over it, Mikhail Gorbachev. He was reformer, a charismatic leader, and a committed Communist. It is that latter part of the description that is the key to understanding his own downfall. He stayed married to the Communist philosophy to long and due to it was maneuvered out of his job, by another leader, Boris Yeltsin, whose rise was only made possible by the reforms that Gorbachev himself had unleashed. In this episode we examine both the life, rise and career of Mikhail Gorbachev but also the situation the Soviet Union faced after the committed Communists tried to overthrow Gorbachev in August of 1991. The Gang of 8 were trying to take back control of the country before the Soviet Union fell apart. Instead, they may very well have pushed it over the cliff. It created a change in the power dynamic that even after Gorbachev was restored to the title of President of the USSR, he found himself sharing power with Boris Yeltsin, and all the real power had shifted away from him.  Here is the beginning of that story.   Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Konstantin Kisin is an author, an essayist, and the co-host of the YouTube channel and podcast Triggernometry. A rebroadcast from 2022.------------Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting------------Keep Talking SubstackSpotifyApple PodcastsSocial media and all episodes------------Support via VenmoSupport on SubstackSupport on Patreon------------(00:00) Intro(1:00) Transition from Soviet Union to wealth in post-collapse Russia(4:00) Impact of the Soviet collapse on ordinary people's lives(6:31) Personal resilience shaped by tumultuous childhood experiences(8:30) Lack of education about the Soviet experience in the West(11:06) The Russian Revolution and its implications for society today(11:20) Overview of the dictatorship of the proletariat concept.(12:55) Impact of property expropriation on wealthy families during the revolution.(14:03) Consequences of collective farming in Soviet society.(16:12) The Soviet Union's attempt at equality led to widespread poverty.(19:02) Insights on the Russian psyche from democratic experiments in the 90s.(23:42) Describing the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse.(25:12) Painful experiences shaped Russian society during the 1990s.(27:11) Russia's surrender to terrorists: a psychological shock for citizens.(29:07) Vladimir Putin emerged as a strongman leader in chaos.(30:46) Boris Yeltsin's legacy and Putin's rise to power explained.(36:57) Freedom of expression as the foundation of Western society.(39:09) The importance of free speech and its recent threats discussed.(40:11) The roots of political correctness and free speech erosion.(41:34) Exploring the dangers of hierarchical ideologies in society.(43:15) The natural dynamics between men and women in relationships.(45:23) Martin Luther King's vision for character over skin color.(46:00) Concerns about societal divisions and their historical implications.(48:14) The universal threat of believing some people are superior to others.(49:00) Thought-provoking quotes(54:00) The West and the importance of individual rights(1:00:41) George Kennan's insights on containment and Western values.(1:01:13) Concerns about identity politics and its impact on society.(1:02:41) The danger of losing a unified national identity.(1:05:41) Internal division as the real threat to powerful nations.(1:08:30) Contextualizing slavery and colonialism in world history.(1:12:31) The role of comedy in challenging mainstream narratives.

Send us a textIn this episode we let you listen to one of the most impressive statemen of the century, Secretary of State James Baker. He was a graduate of Princeton University and after the Soviet Union Coup attempt finally calms down he returned to his Alma Mater to talk about the future he hoped would occur in the Soviet Union. We will be covering James Baker quite a bit over the next seasons as he takes a central role in managing the end of the Cold War, and running the re-election of his friend George H. W. Bush in 1992.   Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Send us a textIn this episode we get the President and Secretary of State's views on the events over the past few days in the Soviet Union. In the press conference you will see how the management of this historic event in the Soviet Union is  indictive of how the fall of Communism was managed by these two wise leaders.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Send us a textOn the third day the Coup collapses. This is that story. From the moment the three people perish the coup becomes a trainwreck. At one point they go back to work out a deal with Gorbachev and nothing works. By the end of this day, Yeltsin has emerged as the man who saved the Soviet Union, for the moment anyway, and Gorbachev is on his way back to Moscow, but it is clear to the world that everything has changed. As the Coup collapsed, the many different Republics declared themselves independent and by the end of the week it appears the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse itself, which will occur later in 1991.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Send us a textIn this episode we see the beginning of the end of the Coup as three people are killed by tanks running over them as the Army is moving in Moscow toward the White House, their home of the Russian Parliament. It is a day full of drama as Boris Yeltsin fights back defiantly. He eludes the Coup leaders by 40 minutes at his house and heads down to the parliament building. Then he moves to block the coup.  He calls on a strike by the nations minors, calls the coup leaders directly, and warns them that the world is watching and their would be consequences for their actions, and he talks with the leaders of the free world , John Major of the United Kingdom, and George H. W, Bush. the President of the United States, and he impresses then both. He is singularly the brave figure who stands up against the tyranny of the Committee of Eight. Boris Yeltsin emerges on this day as the most powerful public figure in Russia.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Send us a textOn August 19, 1991, George H. W. Bush was woken up just after midnight to be told that Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned suddenly for health reasons as the President of the Soviet Union. That did not sound right to anyone. What unfolded for the next three days was the entire world watching the unraveling of one of the two Super Powers of the past half century. Gorbachev was placed under house arrest in his Black Sea Dacha, and his vice President and the leaders of the KGB and the Army took over the country. However, the coup was poorly conceived, poorly managed, and the plotters were often unwilling to to the things necessary to secure control of the country. They also miscalculated how much the reforms that Gorbachev had set forward in the Soviet Union had actually taken hold. The people were resisting the take over and a leader emerged who stood up against it all. His name was Boris Yeltsin. This is the story of those three days in the next three episodes. It was a historic three days that changed the World.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Send us a textIn this episode we look back at several important situations developing all at once. The Soviet Union is in trouble. Economically the situation is getting dire as Gorbachev comes to the economic summit to ask for help. As the G-7 includes the Soviets for the very first time. This is just after a fairly small, and not so celebratory May Day in the Soviet Union. It used to be the event every year where the Soviets displayed their military muscle and its high brass stood up over seeing it all from the balcony. Missiles and troops would march by under portraits of Lenin, and whomever the Communist Party Leader was at the time, be it Khrushchev or Brezhnev. But this time it was sparsely attended under heavy security, and it had none of the trappings of old. If that was not bad enough for the Communist superpower, its largest Republic, the Russian Federation, was in the midst of holding its very first election for President, in what would be its first completely free election with real choices for leadership. the front runner was not the Kremlin's choice, it was a renegade natural politician who had already bolted the Communist Party and was busy trying to get control of various power sources from the Soviet leadership and put it under Russian control His name was Boris Yeltsin and he was on the verge of being catapulted onto the World Stage. Finally the START 1 Treaty was being negotiated and it would be a further thawing of the Cold War but one that had the hardline Communists worried that there control was rapidly fading away. The Treaty was defined by AI (our first use of that) here:  START I, or the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I, was an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to reduce the number of long-range nuclear weapons. The treaty was signed in Moscow on July 31, 1991 by George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. The treaty's main limits included: 1,600 strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, 6,000 accountable warheads, 4,900 ballistic missile warheads, 1,540 warheads on 154 heavy ICBMs, and 1,100 warheads on mobile ICBMs. The treaty also required the parties to:Exchange data on the number and location of their strategic delivery vehiclesAllow each other to conduct inspectionsBan the encryption and exchange of telemetric data that tracked ballistic missiles during test launches The START I treaty was part of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which began in 1982 and lasted for three decades. The START II treaty was agreed upon in 1993, but never came into force.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

Kicks off with listener mail about refinancing given the recent interest rate reduction. Doogles covers a post about universities being debt factories. Skippy is loving the anniversary of Boris Yeltsin's visit to a Texas grocery store. Doogles walks through Marty Zweig's rules of investing. The episode wraps with Nike getting a new CEO and Microstrategy's continuing Bitcoin escapades.Join the Skippy and Doogles fan club. You can also get more details about the show at skippydoogles.com, show notes on our Substack, and send comments or questions to skippydoogles@gmail.com.

Thrilling political drama. Collective Imagination. Playing Putin.  Patriots on Broadway is a political thriller written by Peter Morgan, writer of The Crown. You don't need to know much about politics to be wrapped up in this electric drama to understand what's happening in the world and on stage, especially with a little use of collective imagination. Lets dive into a little about what makes Will Keen's (Putin) process and approach to this play, which also happens to be his Broadway debut. Will Keen has just closed the West End transfer of Peter Morgan's Patriots, directed by Rupert Goold, for which he won the Olivier Award for Supporting Actor last year. He most recently wrapped “My Lady Jane” and the second series of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” both for Amazon, as well as indie feature Borderland opposite Felicity Jones and Mark Strong. He is currently on screens in “The Gold” (BBC1/Viacom), “Ridley Road” (BBC), and “The Pursuit of Love” (BBC) opposite Andrew Scott and Emily Beecham. His other TV credits include “His Dark Materials” seasons 1 and 2, “The Crown” seasons one and two, “Genius,” “Picasso,” “Wolf Hall” and “The Musketeers.” Stage credits include Ghosts, Waste (Almeida); Quartermaine's Terms (Wyndham's Theatre); The Arsonists (Royal Court); and Mary Stuart (National Theatre). In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the new Russia belongs to its oligarchs—and no one is more powerful than billionaire Boris Berezovsky. When an eventual successor to President Boris Yeltsin is needed, Berezovsky turns to the little-known deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin. But soon Putin's ruthless rise threatens Berezovsky's reign, setting off a riveting, near-Shakespearean confrontation between the two powerful, fatally flawed men. Tony® and Emmy® Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg stars as Berezovsky and Will Keen reprises his Olivier Award-winning turn as Putin in PATRIOTS, a shockingly timely history play from Peter Morgan, creator of “The Crown.” Don't miss this strictly limited engagement of Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold's kinetic, exhilarating production, which reveals to us all how Russia's post-Soviet machinations continue to shape our world to this day. Patriots is playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre through June 23rd. https://patriotsbroadway.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

**Check our website for upcoming events such as book clubs, RP Live webinars, and the Tuesday evening discussion group, Macro ‘n Chill. https://realprogressives.org/This week's episode is the audio track of a recent webinar with historian Esha Krishnaswamy. Esha is now living in Russia to research and write a people's history of the Soviet Union.The discussion begins with the story of the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution. The formation of the USSR as a proletarian state shook the capitalist nations of the West to their core. As a result, the Soviet Union was regularly under threat economically, militarily, as well as propaganda warfare.Esha talks about the history of the Soviet Union and its ultimate dissolution against the will of the majority. She delves into the impact of its fall on various countries and the global economy. She looks at the shock doctrine years of Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s and the effects of such extreme austerity and privatization on the average citizens. She then goes into the Putin era and the move towards social democracy.Finally, she touches upon NATO, the IMF, and the war in Ukraine.Esha Krishnaswamy is a writer and media critic, whose focus is on history, foreign policy, and Modern Monetary Theory. She hosts Historic.ly and Late Nights with Lenin.Find her work at historicly/substack.com@eshaLegal on Twitter

On this episode, attorney and business consultant Daniel Satinsky shares about his new book, which tells the story of American participation in the dismantling of the Soviet economy and the creation of the Russian market economy in the 1990s. Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy: Through American Eyes is based on more than 100 interviews with citizen diplomats, entrepreneurs, bankers, consultants, and aid program administrators active in Russia in those years. The book chronicles the real-life experiences of these Americans as they participated in building new sectors of the post-Soviet Russian economy in finance, investment, stock trading, real estate, restaurants, public relations, law, and media (television, radio, newspapers, and movies) at a time of historically unprecedented collaboration and interaction between Russians and Americans. ABOUT THE GUEST Daniel Satinsky is an attorney, business consultant, and independent scholar. He first visited the USSR in 1984 and was active in business there and in Russia from 1990 to 2014. He is the co-author of "Hammer and Silicon: The Soviet Diaspora in the U.S. Innovation Economy" (2018). He is also former president of the board of the U.S.-Russia Chamber of Commerce of New England (1998-2014) and a Davis Center associate. He holds a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and a JD from Northeastern University Law School. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on February 16, 2024 via Zoom. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! PRODUCTION CREDITS Host/Assistant EP: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Host/Supervising Producer: Nicholas Pierce Assistant Producer: Basil Fedun Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Taylor Helmcamp Assistant Producer: Eliza Fisher Assistant Producer: Katherine Birch Social Media Manager: Faith VanVleet SlavX Editorial Director: Sam Parrish Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by kaleidoplasm, Holizna, Crowander, Blue Dot Sessions, Ketsa, Eazy) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Daniel Satinsky.

Join Robert Hardman and Natasha Livingstone for an analysis of "Ipatiev House" season 5, episode 6 of The Crown.This episode of The Crown delves into the history of the British royal family and portrays a strained marriage between the Queen and Prince Phillip while Britain forges a new relationship with Boris Yeltsin's Russia. Our thanks to Hannah from Hertfordshire who wrote in and suggested the episode this week. If you'd like us to analyse a favourite episode of The Crown, write to us at: FactOrFiction@mailonline.co.uk.Find out in this episode of The Crown Fact Or Fiction: Did The Crown get the Romanov family's fate right?Did Boris Yeltsin order Russian scientists to find the bones of the Romanov's after meeting the Queen and Prince Phillip? Was Coach driving one of Prince Phillip's passions?Did Prince Phillip's friend Penny Knatchbull attend Christmas mass with the Queen to quell rumours and speculation?Plus much more. Tell us which episodes of The Crown are your favourites and we might give them the Fact or Fiction treatment on the next episode of the podcast!Email us at FactOrFiction@mailonline.co.ukor send us a message or voicenote on Whatsapp:07796657512 (start your message with "The Crown" so we know which show you're getting in touch with.)Make sure you're following The Crown: Fact Or Fiction so you don't miss an episode. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-crown-fact-or-fiction/id1714259572 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Con Pilar Gómez, Joaquín Manso, Toni Bolaño, Marta García Aller y Rubén Amón, comentamos los asuntos de actualidad política. El periodista y colaborador de Onda Cero, Xavi Colás, que lleva 12 años informando desde Rusia, ya no podrá informar desde Moscú sobre el régimen de Putin, ya que le han retirado el visado, que es una forma de expulsarle. Esta decisión coincide con la publicación del ensayo 'Putinistán' donde disecciona en el régimen que ha construido Vladimir Putin desde que un enfermo Boris Yeltsin le cedió el poder la Nochevieja de 1999.

Did history ever go away? For the former BBC Russia correspondent, Martin Sixsmith, there was a few euphoric years, in the early 1990's, when history promised to end. That time, of course, was the post-Soviet Russia of Boris Yeltsin and the promise that “they” could become like “us” and embrace both democracy and a Chicago school market capitalism. In his new book, PUTIN AND THE RETURN OF HISTORY, Sixsmith tells the story of the transition from this euphoria about the end of history into the Ukraine fueled pessimism of today. But Sixsmith doesn't blame everything on Putin, who he describes as a Russian Zelig, a Machiavellian opportunist who simultaneously was made by and has made history. Yes, he argues, the Kremlin has rekindled the Cold War. But we in the West also have some responsibility for not understanding the historic Russian paranoia about being invaded by western powers. Martin Sixsmith is a bestselling author, television and radio presenter and journalist. He began working at the BBC in 1980 as a foreign correspondent, reporting from Moscow during the end of the Cold War, the era of Perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1997, he went to work for the government of Tony Blair as Director of Communications and Press Secretary to Harriet Harman and then to Alistair Darling. He then served as Director of Communication at the Department for Transport, Local Government, and the Regions. Sixsmith is the author of two political novels, Spin and I Heard Lenin Laugh. He has also published an account of the Litvinenko murder, The Litvinenko File, and made a documentary film in 2008 exploring the legacy of the KGB in today's Russia and the FSB. His book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee was turned into a hugely successful film in 2013, starring Judi Dench.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

In einer 4teiligen Serie zeichnet Acht Milliarden Wladimir Putins Aufstieg nach - vom politisch Unbekannten zum Diktator, der den Krieg zurück nach Europa bringt.  Die erste Folge von ›Putins Aufstieg‹ erzählt von der ›Operation Nachfolger‹: Wie Jelzin und sein Clan eine künstliche Partei erschaffen, die für Putin die Duma-Wahl gewinnen soll. Wie sie den heutigen Verteidigungsminister und damaligen Volkshelden Sergej Schoigu als Parteichef installieren, damit Putin im Falle einer Niederlage keinen politischen Schaden erleidet. Und wie deutlich der designierte Präsident schon zum Jahrtausendwechsel definiert, wie sein Russland aussehen wird. »Schon in seiner sogenannten Millenniums-Botschaft, sagt Putin ganz klare Dinge, die eigentlich antiwestlich sind«, analysiert Russland-Experte Christian Neef. »Er sagt nämlich, die Rolle der Staatsmacht sei in Russland immer größer gewesen als in der westlichen politischen Kultur. Daher könne Russland nicht eine Kopie der USA oder Englands werden, wo liberale Werte lange historische Tradition haben. Also der Staat muss ausgebaut werden. Der Staat, sagt er, ist bei uns ein ganz anderes Instrument, als er in westlichen Ländern ist. Der Mensch, das Individuum muss zurücktreten.« Links zur Sendung: Jelzins Abtrittsrede 31.12.1999 (dekoder.org - YouTube) Putins Neujahrsansprache 31.12.1999 (dekoder.org - YouTube)  Jelzin übergibt an Putin - The day Boris Yeltsin said goodbye to Russia (BBC News - YouTube) OT Putin zu Bombenattacken in Moskau 13.09.1999 (AP- YouTube) Statement Nikolai Patruschew zu Bombenfund in Rjasan September 1999 - aus: Disbelief - The Moscow Apartment Bombings of 1999 Putins Essay ›Russia at the turn of the millenium‹ (englisch)+++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie bei SPIEGEL+. Jetzt für nur € 1,- für die ersten vier Wochen testen unter spiegel.de/abonnieren Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

Tonight we're having a communist party (!) as we look at a part of the War not often explored, the Russian camps. Storied director Peter Weir ("Gallipoli") brought this true (?) story to the screen in 2010, starring Ed Harris and Colin Farrell. The result? An overlooked gem and a muscular statement against Stalinism... Asides include, there are too many movies, Boris Yeltsin's lost in the supermarket, Bill Cosby endorsed an '80s dessert item to great effect, and why was Ed Harris so pissed at the '99 Oscars?  Drop us a line at worldwartwomovienight@gmail.com Check out our X/Twitter at http://twitter.com/WWIIMovieNight   

Messaging Open Mind or NotThe Ochelli Effect 2-14-2024 MessagingIs anyone who pays intense attention to this interview listening to it objectively? What can we learn from Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin? Ultimately Chuck thinks that listeners will describe this pod as Pro-Putin or Anti-Putin based on their personal stance. Like the contents of a bag of chips, This audio recap and commentary will get reactions that tell us more about the listener than wqhat they were listening to.Whatever history and facts are presented in the Putin/Tucker interview are only part of the story. We ask you if the interview was informative, or was Carlson just giving The Russian President the benefit of his audience?Chuck plays and examines some of the exchanges where Vladimir toys with the host a bit and gets annoyed at interruptions. When very gentle challenges came up during questions, how were they handled by the most adept Politician and Spy Master in the world? Is there anything new we can learn about the current conflict in Ukraine? Do we get an idea about the true worldview of the influential leader of Russia who is a key player in the current world order? One listener has offered to check the translations with a copy that doesn't have the english dubbed over the audio. Chuck broke down some of what he observed in the video and plays highlights from it to ask listeners what they understood about the potetially strategic messages that Carlson is clearly oblivious to and asks what is in the ear of the beholder? Are there concealed messages hidden in plain sight during this conversation?A practical summation of The current President of Russia might commence with a relevent beginning in 1975 at age 23 and his graduation from the Leningrad State University law department, after which his tenure as KGB foreign intelligence officer begins, rising to the rank of colonel before resigning in 1991 as he transitioned to a political career. In 1996 he was elected mayor of Saint Petersburg , he moved to Moscow to join the administration of President Boris Yeltsin in 1997. Boris Yeltsin appointed Putin deputy chief of Presidential Staff, which he remained until May 1998, and chief of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Property Management Department until June 1998. He briefly served as the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and then as secretary of the Security Council of Russia before being appointed prime minister in August 1999. Following Yeltsin's resignation, Putin became acting president and, in less than four months, was elected to his first term as president. He was subsequently reelected in 2004. Due to constitutional limitations of two consecutive presidential terms, Putin served as prime minister again from 2008 to 2012 under Dmitry Medvedev. He returned to the presidency in 2012, and was reelected in 2018. In April 2021, after a referendum, he signed into law constitutional amendments that included one allowing him to run for reelection twice more, potentially extending his presidency to 2036.Thus there is an inescapable understanding that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is highly educated in political and intelligence knowledge from the corridors of power native to what was the USSR and today is The Russian Federation. He is above well-versed in tactical covert communications as any product of a duel Political and Intelligence experience should be.This most recent rather lengthy public conversation with a friendly interviewer is worthy of careful elucidation.Chuck asks you to interpret what you heard - PLEASE Note how the truth is in the ear of the beholder much like beauty strikes the eye.Tucker Interviews Putinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCWBhuDdDo&t=1865sInterview to Tucker CarlsonVladimir Putin answered questions from Tucker Carlson, a journalist and founder of Tucker Carlson Network.http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73411A FEW EXAMPLES OF OTHERS examining the same conversationPutin's Interview With Carlson: What We Learnedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2fcnrHd7ooPutin gives first western interview with Tucker CarlsonRussians give verdict on Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWHFG2Egpw4Opinion | The Tucker-Russia relationship draws intense media scrutinyhttps://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2024/tucker-carlson-putin-interview-criticism/Tucker Carlson streams interview with Vladimir Putin (full conversation) https://www.rt.com/shows/rt-interview/592090-tucker-carlson-kremlin-putin-conversation/Four Highlights From Tucker Carlson's Interview With Vladimir Putinhttps://www.newsweek.com/five-highlights-tucker-carlsons-interview-vladimir-putin-1868384KEEP OCHELLI GOING.You are the EFFECT if you support OCHELLIhttps://ochelli.com/donate/Ochelli Link Treehttps://linktr.ee/chuckochelliBASIC MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP$10. 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On this episode, poitical scientist Serhiy Kudelia of Baylor University speaks with us about multiple topics on Ukraine from the prospects for Ukraine in the long-term, depending on continued western support, to the political effects of the war on Ukrainian leadership. Dr. Kudelia discusses the likelihood of Ukraine gaining any security guarantees from the West and under what conditions Putin might deploy strategic nuclear weapons or perhaps advance his military campaign beyond Ukraine. Thanks for listening! ABOUT THE GUEST SERHIY KUDELIA is associate professor of political science at Baylor University. His research and teaching deal with the study of political regimes, revolutions, armed conflicts and political violence. His primary research focus is Ukraine and his articles appeared in numerous academic journals including Comparative Politics, Journal of Democracy, Current History, Post-Soviet Affairs, Problems of Post-Communism, East European Politics and Societies, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Demokratizatsiya, Russia in Global Affairs and in several edited volumes. His book "The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin" co-authored with Kiron Skinner, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Condoleezza Rice was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2007. Based on his extensive expertise in Ukrainian politics Dr. Kudelia has also offered commentary to a variety of news outlets including BBC, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Voice of America, Al-Jazeera, NHK, Radio China International, Open Democracy, The Moscow Times, Kyiv Post and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on December 02, 2023 during the 2023 ASEEES Convention at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. If you have questions, comments, or would like to be a guest on the show, please email slavxradio@utexas.edu and we will be in touch! PRODUCTION CREDITS Co-Host: Basil Fedun Co-Host: Faith VanVleet Associate Producer: Cullan Bendig (@cullanwithana) Associate Producer: Sergio Glajar Assistant Producer: Taylor Helmcamp Assistant Producer: Eliza Fisher Social Media Manager: Faith VanVleet SlavX Editorial Director: Sam Parrish Supervising Producer: Nicholas Pierce Assistant EP: Misha Simanovskyy (@MSimanovskyy) Main Theme by Charlie Harper and additional background music by Nul Tiel Records, Kaleidoplasm, Broke for Free, Beat Mekanik, Joey Hendrixx) Executive Producer & Creator: Michelle Daniel (@MSDaniel) www.msdaniel.com DISCLAIMER: Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/9/9a59b135-7876-4254-b600-3839b3aa3ab1/P1EKcswq.png Special Guest: Serhiy Kudelia.

In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the tsar of Russia and established a new, communist government, one that viewed the Imperial Russia of old as a righteously vanquished enemy. And yet, as Pavel Khazanov shows in The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse (U Wisconsin Press, 2023), after the collapse of Stalinism, a reconfiguration of Imperial Russia slowly began to emerge, recalling the culture of tsarist Russia not as a disgrace but as a glory, a past to not only remember but to recover, and to deploy against what to many seemed like a discredited socialist project. Khazanov's careful untangling of this discourse in the late Soviet period reveals a process that involved figures of all political stripes, from staunch conservatives to avowed intelligentsia liberals. Further, Khazanov shows that this process occurred not outside of or in opposition to Soviet guidance and censorship, but in mainstream Soviet culture that commanded wide audiences, especially among the Soviet middle class. Excavating the cultural logic of this newly foundational, mythic memory of a “lost Russia,” Khazanov reveals why, despite the apparently liberal achievement of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Boris Yeltsin (and later, Vladamir Putin) successfully steered Russia into oligarchy and increasing autocracy. The anti-Soviet memory of the pre-Soviet past, ironically constructed during the late socialist period, became and remains a politically salient narrative, a point of consensus that surprisingly attracts both contemporary regime loyalists and their would-be liberal opposition. This book can be purchased a discounted rate for a limited time using the code ASEES23WISC here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the tsar of Russia and established a new, communist government, one that viewed the Imperial Russia of old as a righteously vanquished enemy. And yet, as Pavel Khazanov shows in The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse (U Wisconsin Press, 2023), after the collapse of Stalinism, a reconfiguration of Imperial Russia slowly began to emerge, recalling the culture of tsarist Russia not as a disgrace but as a glory, a past to not only remember but to recover, and to deploy against what to many seemed like a discredited socialist project. Khazanov's careful untangling of this discourse in the late Soviet period reveals a process that involved figures of all political stripes, from staunch conservatives to avowed intelligentsia liberals. Further, Khazanov shows that this process occurred not outside of or in opposition to Soviet guidance and censorship, but in mainstream Soviet culture that commanded wide audiences, especially among the Soviet middle class. Excavating the cultural logic of this newly foundational, mythic memory of a “lost Russia,” Khazanov reveals why, despite the apparently liberal achievement of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Boris Yeltsin (and later, Vladamir Putin) successfully steered Russia into oligarchy and increasing autocracy. The anti-Soviet memory of the pre-Soviet past, ironically constructed during the late socialist period, became and remains a politically salient narrative, a point of consensus that surprisingly attracts both contemporary regime loyalists and their would-be liberal opposition. This book can be purchased a discounted rate for a limited time using the code ASEES23WISC here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the tsar of Russia and established a new, communist government, one that viewed the Imperial Russia of old as a righteously vanquished enemy. And yet, as Pavel Khazanov shows in The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse (U Wisconsin Press, 2023), after the collapse of Stalinism, a reconfiguration of Imperial Russia slowly began to emerge, recalling the culture of tsarist Russia not as a disgrace but as a glory, a past to not only remember but to recover, and to deploy against what to many seemed like a discredited socialist project. Khazanov's careful untangling of this discourse in the late Soviet period reveals a process that involved figures of all political stripes, from staunch conservatives to avowed intelligentsia liberals. Further, Khazanov shows that this process occurred not outside of or in opposition to Soviet guidance and censorship, but in mainstream Soviet culture that commanded wide audiences, especially among the Soviet middle class. Excavating the cultural logic of this newly foundational, mythic memory of a “lost Russia,” Khazanov reveals why, despite the apparently liberal achievement of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Boris Yeltsin (and later, Vladamir Putin) successfully steered Russia into oligarchy and increasing autocracy. The anti-Soviet memory of the pre-Soviet past, ironically constructed during the late socialist period, became and remains a politically salient narrative, a point of consensus that surprisingly attracts both contemporary regime loyalists and their would-be liberal opposition. This book can be purchased a discounted rate for a limited time using the code ASEES23WISC here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the tsar of Russia and established a new, communist government, one that viewed the Imperial Russia of old as a righteously vanquished enemy. And yet, as Pavel Khazanov shows in The Russia that We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse (U Wisconsin Press, 2023), after the collapse of Stalinism, a reconfiguration of Imperial Russia slowly began to emerge, recalling the culture of tsarist Russia not as a disgrace but as a glory, a past to not only remember but to recover, and to deploy against what to many seemed like a discredited socialist project. Khazanov's careful untangling of this discourse in the late Soviet period reveals a process that involved figures of all political stripes, from staunch conservatives to avowed intelligentsia liberals. Further, Khazanov shows that this process occurred not outside of or in opposition to Soviet guidance and censorship, but in mainstream Soviet culture that commanded wide audiences, especially among the Soviet middle class. Excavating the cultural logic of this newly foundational, mythic memory of a “lost Russia,” Khazanov reveals why, despite the apparently liberal achievement of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Boris Yeltsin (and later, Vladamir Putin) successfully steered Russia into oligarchy and increasing autocracy. The anti-Soviet memory of the pre-Soviet past, ironically constructed during the late socialist period, became and remains a politically salient narrative, a point of consensus that surprisingly attracts both contemporary regime loyalists and their would-be liberal opposition. This book can be purchased a discounted rate for a limited time using the code ASEES23WISC here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In 1998, Russia's President Boris Yeltsin shocked the nation with a last-minute decision to speak at the reburial of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, 80 years after their murder.“We must end an age of blood and violence in Russia,” he said, as he called for the country to face up to the crimes of its communist past.Lilia Dubovaya, a reporter for the state news service, told Robert Nicholson about the emotional weight of the day. A Whistledown production for BBC World Service.(Image: President Yeltsin at the reburial of Tsar Nicholas II. Credit: Reuters)

The new series of Fascinating People, Fascinating Places launches on 5 January 2024 with new episodes featuring the man who caught Saddam Hussein, the lawyer for the 9/11 mastermind, and much more. But in the interim, I am replaying five episodes that were selected by listeners as the best content over the last few years. If you're new to the show now is the time to catch up. If you're a long-term listener here is a chance to revisit some of the fan favorites.  Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I had the pleasure of speaking with WSJ veteran David Satter. He was expelled from Moscow due to his investigative work that indicated Vladimir Putin came to power on the back of terrorist atrocities committed by the FSB but blamed on Chechens. In this episode, he shares a compelling story that supports his claims. On 13 September 1999 Gennadiy Seleznyov speaker of the Duma announced to the Russian parliament that a terrorist attack had hit the remote and hitherto unremarkable city of Volgodonsk. The bombing did occur but not until 3 days later. But it was this incident in conjunction with other bombings that set in motion a series of events that salvaged the reputation of President Boris Yeltsin and laid the stage for his protege Vladimir Putin to come to power. But Selezynyovs apparent clairvoyance wasn't the only indication that something more sinister was afoot. And many people believe the second Chechen war was launched on the basis of a false flag attack concocted by Vladimir Putin. In this episode, I talk to the acclaimed journalist David Satter – formerly the Moscow correspondent for The Financial Times, and special correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He was the first investigative reporter to detail what he believes was a bloody conspiracy to bring Putin to power. Aside from his journalistic work, David Satter has written five books about Russia including Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union which was adapted into a documentary film, and more recently he authored The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin. In December 2013, he was expelled from Russia having been accused of violating migration laws. A claim that he denies and has been widely derided. Like many before and since his real crime appears to have been His actual offense appears to have been his efforts to expose the true nature of an opaque and sinister regime. Music and Sound: Pixabay Guests: David Satter (on Wikipedia)  

@TheHeartlandPOD on Twitter and ThreadsCo-HostsAdam Sommer @Adam_Sommer85  (Twitter) @adam_sommer85 (Post)Rachel Parker @msraitchetp   (Post) Sean Diller @SeanDillerCO   (Twitter and Post)https://heartlandpod.com/JOIN PATREON FOR MORE - AND JOIN OUR SOCIAL NETWORK!“Change The Conversation”Belin found her love of politics growing up with parents and siblings who discussed current events at the dinner table. She has followed Iowa elections closely since the 1980 caucuses, when she took on the role of liberal Republican candidate John Anderson for a classroom debate. She first participated in an Iowa Democratic caucus as a Paul Simon supporter in 1988.She found her love of writing about politics as an analyst for the Prague-based Open Media Research Institute and later for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. She covered Russian campaigns and elections, parliamentary politics, and media issues full time from 1995 to 1998 and on a freelance basis for RFE/RL from 1999 to 2005, spanning most of Boris Yeltsin's presidency and the early Vladimir Putin years.As Bleeding Heartland's lead author, Belin continued to use the handle desmoinesdem through 2018 and now writes about Iowa politics under her own byline.

@TheHeartlandPOD on Twitter and ThreadsCo-HostsAdam Sommer @Adam_Sommer85  (Twitter) @adam_sommer85 (Post)Rachel Parker @msraitchetp   (Post) Sean Diller @SeanDillerCO   (Twitter and Post)https://heartlandpod.com/JOIN PATREON FOR MORE - AND JOIN OUR SOCIAL NETWORK!“Change The Conversation”Belin found her love of politics growing up with parents and siblings who discussed current events at the dinner table. She has followed Iowa elections closely since the 1980 caucuses, when she took on the role of liberal Republican candidate John Anderson for a classroom debate. She first participated in an Iowa Democratic caucus as a Paul Simon supporter in 1988.She found her love of writing about politics as an analyst for the Prague-based Open Media Research Institute and later for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. She covered Russian campaigns and elections, parliamentary politics, and media issues full time from 1995 to 1998 and on a freelance basis for RFE/RL from 1999 to 2005, spanning most of Boris Yeltsin's presidency and the early Vladimir Putin years.As Bleeding Heartland's lead author, Belin continued to use the handle desmoinesdem through 2018 and now writes about Iowa politics under her own byline.

When President Bill Clinton eulogized Richard Nixon in April 1994, he briefly referred to advice he had received from the former president just the month before. “Even in the final weeks of his life, he gave me his wise counsel, especially with regard to Russia,” said Clinton at the 37th president's funeral. The advice on Russia came in the form of a memo, only recently released to the public thanks to the work of researcher Anthony Constantini. In March 1994, following a trip to Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and the United Kingdom, Nixon wrote a 7-page memo detailing the grave problems in Russia's experiment with liberal democracy and market economics. In this episode, Constantini, who is a regular contributor to The American Conservative, says the memo that he obtained from the Clinton presidential library shows that Richard Nixon understood what was at stake as Russia under Boris Yeltsin tried to transition to political and economic freedom. Nixon advised Clinton to fix the aid program to Moscow, and find alternatives to the frequently drunk and faltering Yeltsin. But, Constantini contends, most of Nixon's advice was ignored to the detriment of global history.

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The Russian history series continues!  This episode, Aleks covers the dissolution of the USSR after The Great Human Event of Chernobyl and the fall of the Berlin wall.  Also, the drunkest election, Mikhail Gorbachev's pizza palace and even more!Image shownotes: https://imgur.com/gallery/SEa9tW7Talking Points: soviet quota reporting,russian wagies aka ragies,boneitis,the great human event,meat clown,great russian comedy,chernobyl,AZ-5,everything is fine,battlebots,the human chain,KAZAKHSTAN MENTIONED,April 9th Tragedy,JAPANESE POPSTAR SENSATION HATSUNE MIKU MENTIONED,the berlin wall,the first (and last) election,republic of dave,the red square,Boris Yeltsin with the Spiderman 3 suit and Tad has literally the worst shirt idea ever. Check out the website for links to our shows on iTunes, GooglePlay and Spotify► http://www.lmtya.com► https://spoti.fi/2Q55yfL Peep us on Twitter► @LetMeTellYouPD Official Discord► https://discord.gg/SqyXJ9R Intro music for 'Somewhat Accurate History' provided by► http://tristanalric.fr/ /////// SHILL CORNER ///////► https://www.patreon.com/LMTYA LMTYA shirts!► https://represent.com/lmtya/////// SHILL CORNER ///////

Mark Moss is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker and host of The Mark Moss Show. In this interview, we discuss his recent co-authored book “The UnCommunist Manifesto”, which is a critique of Communist theory in response to its continued influence in our modern world. - - - - The Communist Manifesto was one of the most influential political writings in modern history. It was written by the 19th-century philosophers, historians and political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Despite falling into obscurity for a generation after its initial publication in 1848, it went on to provide a theoretical basis for one of the 20th century's most pervasive ideologies. The Soviet Communist Empire the Manifesto inspired ultimately failed. Proponents have argued that the Soviet political and economic system was not the same form of communism proposed by Marx and Engels. Many others have indicated that the fall of the USSR and its vassal countries showed the inherent fallacy of centralised control being the optimum political system. It wasn't merely that communism failed, but the brutal nature of the system it inspired. There is a debate about whether the quantum of deaths under communist regimes could be referred to as genocide. Semantics aside, tens of millions of people have been killed in Communist countries. Further, it discouraged innovation whilst encouraging waste, corruption and nepotism. Boris Yeltsin acknowledged the Soviet issue when he made an impromptu visit to a US supermarket during a state visit. “There would be a revolution" he stated when contemplating how normal Russians would react to seeing the range and quality of produce. And yet, despite the epic collapse of the USSR, young people are increasingly being drawn to socialist ideas that underpin the Manifesto. Does a review of the Communist Manifesto provide adequate insight into the system it inspired? Can we identify the dangerous tenets of a communist system to better protect society? Is there anything theoretically sound in the Manifesto? Ultimately, do the transparent weaknesses of our current system give rise to society underestimating the weaknesses of competing systems?

“If you look at the long-term secular trend, there's been three trends: one has been globalisation; so we've increased peace, we've increased global trade. Two, we've increased the population. And three, we've increased the money supply…and all three are reversing.”— Mark MossMark Moss is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker and host of The Mark Moss Show. In this interview, we discuss his recent co-authored book “The UnCommunist Manifesto”, which is a critique of Communist theory in response to its continued influence in our modern world.- - - - The Communist Manifesto was one of the most influential political writings in modern history. It was written by the 19th-century philosophers, historians and political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Despite falling into obscurity for a generation after its initial publication in 1848, it went on to provide a theoretical basis for one of the 20th century's most pervasive ideologies. The Soviet Communist Empire the Manifesto inspired ultimately failed. Proponents have argued that the Soviet political and economic system was not the same form of communism proposed by Marx and Engels. Many others have indicated that the fall of the USSR and its vassal countries showed the inherent fallacy of centralised control being the optimum political system. It wasn't merely that communism failed, but the brutal nature of the system it inspired. There is a debate about whether the quantum of deaths under communist regimes could be referred to as genocide. Semantics aside, tens of millions of people have been killed in Communist countries. Further, it discouraged innovation whilst encouraging waste, corruption and nepotism.Boris Yeltsin acknowledged the Soviet issue when he made an impromptu visit to a US supermarket during a state visit. “There would be a revolution" he stated when contemplating how normal Russians would react to seeing the range and quality of produce. And yet, despite the epic collapse of the USSR, young people are increasingly being drawn to socialist ideas that underpin the Manifesto. Does a review of the Communist Manifesto provide adequate insight into the system it inspired? Can we identify the dangerous tenets of a communist system to better protect society? Is there anything theoretically sound in the Manifesto? Ultimately, do the transparent weaknesses of our current system give rise to society underestimating the weaknesses of competing systems?- - - - This episode's sponsors:Gemini - Buy Bitcoin instantlyLedn - Financial services for Bitcoin hodlersBitcasino - The Future of Gaming is hereFidelity - Careers in cryptoLedger - State of the art Bitcoin hardware walletWasabi Wallet - Privacy by defaultBCB Group - Global digital financial Services-----WBD593 - Show Notes-----If you enjoy The What Bitcoin Did Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:Become a Patron and get access to shows early or help contributeMake a tip:Bitcoin: 3FiC6w7eb3dkcaNHMAnj39ANTAkv8Ufi2SQR Codes: BitcoinIf you do send a tip then please email me so that I can say thank youSubscribe on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | SoundCloud | YouTube | Deezer | TuneIn | RSS FeedLeave a review on iTunesShare the show and episodes with your friends and familySubscribe to the newsletter on my websiteFollow me on Twitter Personal | Twitter Podcast | Instagram | Medium | YouTubeIf you are interested in sponsoring the show, you can read more about that here or please feel free to drop me an email to discuss options.