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Power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring and injuring the national interest. Or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. Now, these this question of whether president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. And after action was taken, president nixon famously said if the president does it, it is not ille...

Tom Harrison, back row, center; Joanne Landy, second row, right This interview was originally published in Left History. This version is reposted from New Politics, where it was republished in 2018. Joanne Landy died in 2017. See here for a brief obituary. Introduction

Charters Wynn makes a reasonable case in portraying Tomsky as a “moderate” Bolshevik referring most of all to Tomsky’s cautious political perspective on what the party could and should do as a revolutionary party.

The story of the Kronstadt revolt, compactly told, a decisive moment in the Bolshevik counter-revolution.

Η τουρκόφωνη αλλά χριστιανική μειονότητα, στο επίκεντρο της κόντρας Μόσχας-Άγκυρας.

Καταστολή διαδήλωσης στη Λευκορωσία AP Οι αρχές της Λευκορωσίας μπλόκαραν ιστότοπο εφημερίδας που κάλυπτε τις διαδηλώσεις διαμαρτυρίας και συνέλαβαν τον διευθυντή σύνταξης. 09 Ιουλίου 2021 02:40 Οι αρχές της Λευκορωσίας ανακοίνωσαν ότι...

07/07 / 2021 05:10 Eνώ η Μόσχα δήλωσε ότι οι δυνάμεις της στην χώρα αυτή της Κεντρικής Ασίας είναι πλήρως εξοπλισμένες για να συμβάλουν στην ασφάλεια των συνόρων με το Αφγανιστάν. Ο πρόεδρος του Τατζικιστάν Εμομαλί Ρ...

One Hundred Years of the Russian NEP – Lessons for Cuba Author’s Note – This article originally appeared in Spanish in La Joven Cuba (Young Cuba), one of the most important critical blogs in the island, where the Internet remains the principal vehicle for critical opinion because the government has not yet succeeded in controlling it. The article elicited some strong reactions including that of a former government minister who called it a provocation. The New Economic Policy (NEP) introd...

United states for defense purposes. the great support in the area of defense included the nearly $400 million of u.s. military assistance to ukraine. which one witness testified was nearly 10% of ukraines defense budget. in this support comes as a result of russias invasion of ukraine in 2014, when russia illegally annexed nearly 7% of ukraines territory. since then, the united states and our allies have provided support for ukraine, an emerging post soviet democracy to fend off russia in the ea...

Alternative power to the communist party leaders. >> let me put on my glasses here for a moment and read you a piece of wire copy that has just come across on reuters. >> russian president boris yeltsin ordered all army and kgb units involved in the overthrow of gorbachev to stand down and said he was assuming control on the territory of russia. clearly, there is a major confrontation shaping up in the russian republic. >> the presidents day began with a succession of meetings and phone calls. a...