Essays on Russia

The US and Russia are the largest holders of nuclear weapons around the globe 95%.  With the need to reduce the total number of nuclear weapons held by the two countries, over the past 40 years different bilateral agreements have been used by the two states to reduce and limit...

Russia's Political History Russia has long garnered the attention of international political observers. For more than seven decades Russia was the core of the globe's communist regime with the international Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans, USSR which often contested the USA for global supremacy. After the fall of USSR in 1991,...

Comparative Politics: A Comparison of Government Systems in Germany and Russia Comparative politics focuses on comparing countries with an emphasis on important patterns of similarities and differences. The research paper compares systems of government in Germany and Russia. The three major systems of government i.e. unitary, federal, and confederate systems are...

Bilateral Relations and Foreign Policy Bilateral relations are agreements ties between any two sovereign states. These ties dictate the way of conduct of the political, economic, and cultural activities between the two countries. The two countries also exchange diplomatic agents in order to facilitate negotiations and adherence to the laid cooperation...

The Alleged Hacking of the US Election The alleged hacking of the US election by the Russians was viewed differently by the individuals involved in the election. The incident was seen by various individuals as the reason behind the decision in the 2016 presidential elections. It led to certain strays between...

Article 1: On Ukraine, President Putin and Russia Face a Choice This article is an address given by John Kerry which was delivered on the 14 April 2014 at the State Department in Washington. He outlines the state of the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia. His states that Russia is...

One of the films used for months to make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible is the book Soviet Experiment. Despite their complexity, the themes of Soviet history have been examined in this work. These histories varied from that of the final tsar, who was a native of the...

Winston Churchill described the Russian expansionist notions as a challenge to the established western principles in his 1946 speech on the iron curtain. Western values are founded on individual development, free enterprise, and private property ownership. While privately held organizations handle the delivery of healthcare and education, press freedom is...

Churchill's Perceptions of Russia Due to its domestic uprising within Britain and its ability to undercut established global action policies, Churchill perceived Russia as a threat. But he believed that Russia's social and economic collapse could influence other countries and impose its socialist policies. Churchill knew that the totalitarian communist regime...

Russian cyberattacks are becoming more widespread. The purpose of these assaults is always to benefit or harm a nation politically or economically. Such attacks serve a political purpose by promoting a particular contender. Four Russian nationals, including two Russian officers, were charged by the Department of Justice in March 2017...

It is well known that the Battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest and largest battles of World War II. Germany, the Soviet Union, and its friends were at war. The war came to an end at this time. The German forces suffered a loss of many soldiers after...

It is crucial that questions posed to the Soviet officials be answered in my capacity as an American diplomat. Many of those items were already generally available in the past. One such instance is the assertion that capitalism has created a setting where racism naturally occurs, which the soviet noted...