Archive for August 16th, 2006
Popular Resistance in August 1991
By Sean at 16 August, 2006, 8:08 pm
Next week will mark 15 years since the August Putsch. On August 19, 1991 a group of Soviet politicians calling themselves the State Executive Committee (Gosudarstvennyi Komitet po Chezvychainomu polozheniiu, GKChP) attempted top seize power in Moscow. The “putsch” took a very Soviet form. The Committee announced that Gorbachev was ill and [...]
Read More >>An Unlikely Unity in the Midst of War
By Sean at 16 August, 2006, 5:46 pm
Since the mid-1980s it is estimated that over a million Russians have immigrated to Israel. With a population of just over 6 million, this makes the Russian immigrant community a strong voting block in the Jewish state. Politically, they are considered a staple of the Israeli right wing.But as Lily Galili reports in Haaretz, war [...]
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