Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dies
Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, died on Aug. 30 in Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital. Gorbachev’s death comes at a time when Russia is in intense political turmoil.
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Cold War Policy Tactics Doom Yet Another Developing Nation
“We will bury this enemy with our blood and bones” is hardly a statement one might anticipate hearing from a Nobel Peace Prize winner, but Abiy Ahmed’s tenure as Prime Minister of Ethiopia has been far from what anyone has anticipated. On October 31, Ahmed sounded the alarm of a near state collapse when he urged citizens to take up arms and brace for a battle over the capital of Africa’s second most populous country, reports The New York Times. Now, with almost every global power keen on remaining influential in Africa, many remain baffled as to why the world has remained largely indifferent towards Africa’s second most populous nation.
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Winds of Change: 28 Years of Post-Soviet Independence
As of 2020, many Central Asian and Eastern European states are still led by demagogues and united by the common threads of conflict, cronyism, and dubious elections.
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