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NEW COLUMN: “IF I WERE A PRESIDENT” Everyone says that everything “new” is actually a well-forgotten “old.” We therefore decided to offer our readers an old/new newspaper column, “If I Were a President.” We are appealing to our young readers to check up on a once - hyperpopular Soviet “Literary Paper” of the 1970s and its publications titled “If I Were a Director”; our older readers already know what this title refers to. We wanted to update this theme by offering a different title and theme in order to talk about what is most pressing at the moment.
We hereby offer the following theme: “If I Were a President.” We are asking our readers for a concise (maximum three paragraphs) statement on the most crucial issues they would take up if they were a President of the United States. This would offer concerned citizens from all walks of life a voice and a belief that our country- and the world at large- can and should be changed for the better. We are asking for one more condition, besides the concise delivery of the ideas – all responders must be U.S. Citizens or those with a legal right to reside in America. We want to direct all others interested in this idea to various Internet forums that offer similar-style discussions. MediaGroup “Kontinent” wants to thank in advance all those who wish to participate in this new venue. The most interesting responses will be published, while others will be analyzed by the publication. We will also direct these responses to various Presidential Election Committees to the attention of the 2008 Presidential candidates. We would like to direct attention of our readers to first responses received by MediaGroup “Kontinent” survey question. We further, convincingly ask you to provide the following information with your response: name (or initials), profession, sex and age. We welcome responses both in English or Russian. We will accept responses both via email kontinentmedia@gmail.com (Subject: If I would be a president) or via mail to Kontinent Media Group, 1580 S. Milwaukee Ave., Suite 208, Libertyville, IL 60049 or via fax 847-680-9717. Our foreign readers – including former compatriots currently living in Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Germany, Canada and other states – can offer us suggestions that apply to their states, and “Kontinent” will be ready to showcase such responses to our large international readership. |
EXPERT OPINION: ARE WE ENTERING A NEW COLD WAR? Gary Hamburg, Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College, and Johannes F. Linn, Executive Director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution analyze the current state of U.S.-Russian relations.
— How would you characterize the current U.S.- Russian relationship: are we in fact heading towards a new cold war? GARY HAMBURG, Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College, author of several books on Russia and the Soviet Union: U.S.-Russian relations have become difficult for various reasons: Putin thinks the United States has become a force for instability in the world, by which he means that the U.S. intervention in Iraq has destabilized the Middle East but also that U.S. sponsorship of NATO expansion has disturbed Russia's 'near abroad'; Putin also thinks that the United States has not duly recognized Russian power, political and economic; the Bush administration is disappointed by what it sees as Putin's meddling in Ukrainian internal affairs, by its unhelpful attitude toward Georgia, by its use of oil as an instrument of political intimidation in Europe, and, of course, by the continuing Russian use of force in Chechnya (which reminds Washington of Soviet habits, even though the tacit agreement is for Washington to 'look the other way' while Chechnya is pacified and to classify the suppression of Chechen independence as a part of the international 'war on terror.') |
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