Tag: Leonid Brezhnev

In the USSR, There Was No Sex; In Putin’s Russia, No Suicides From Medical Despair

March 23, 2015
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, March 20 — In the USSR, it was sometimes said, there was no sex because that subject could not be addressed directly in the media. However that might have been, a new truth is emerging, in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, there will be no suicides by those who cannot get the medicines they need to […]

Putin’s Loose Talk About Nuclear Weapons Threatens Russia and Putin Himself

November 24, 2014
Ukraine
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, November 24 – Loose talk by Vladimir Putin and others in Moscow about using nuclear weapons has not only united the West in ways that nothing else, including Russian aggression in Ukraine, could, but it is spreading fear among those near Putin about their future prospects in such a brave new world, according to […]