Tag Archives: Dmitri Medvedev

Looking for a New START

By Page | Published: December 20, 2009
Originally published here. Last week, in the midst of the tense Copenhagen climate conference negotiations, brief news stories began to surface regarding an impending meeting between Presidents Obama and Medvedev. It wasn’t to be just any meeting: after nearly a year of complicated negotiations in Geneva between Russian and American diplomats, as well as several [...]
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Star Wars Episode II: A New Shield?

By Page | Published: November 16, 2008
Originally published here. On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan went on prime time television to deliver what has since become known as his “Star Wars speech”. He started his address by telling us that the “liberals in the House of Representatives” were “endangering the security of the nation” by proposing further defense budget cuts. [...]
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