American Thinker (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... Laden, Mullah Omar and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi appeared on our radar screens. But for the prudence of Nikita Khrushchev, Che Guevara's fondest wish would have made New York's 9/11 explosions appear like an errant cherry bomb. Yet listed alongside Che Guevara in Time's "Heroes and Icons of the Century," is Mother Theresa. From here the ironies only get richer.The most popular version...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... forums are mainly venues for ranting about the U.S. One wonders if somewhere in this Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev's famous banging shoe from the 1960 U.N. visit isn't kept nearby as a lucky charm.Please add your comments to the .
Ellipsis...Suddenly Carly (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river." -Nikita Khrushchev Ok, I can admit it, last night's debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin wasn't the laugh out loud laugh fest event I had envisioned it would be, in fact, I have to admit I found it, at times, fascinating. Yes, fascinating. Sarah Paling was well rehearsed and on her game, while...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Mr Obama, meanwhile, repeated his assertion that he would be standing at his podium at “Ole Miss” – as the university is better known – at 9pm tonight, deal or no deal. Mr McCain had declared that this was a time for leadership, and not politics. Mr Obama’s aides called it a stunt and sent press releases pointing out that on the day of the third Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960 Nikita Khrushchev...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
... importance, visiting more than 54 countries and meeting world leaders such as Russia's premiere, Nikita Khrushchev. The foreign-policy experience served him well when he became president in 1968. But Nixon was replaced by his own vice president, Gerald Ford, after resigning in disgrace in 1974 during the Watergate scandal.This year, after a tough race against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton,...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
It echoes a famous exchange during the 1959 American National Exhibition, in Moscow. With the backdrop of a state-of-the-art American kitchen, US President Richard Nixon asked President Nikita Khrushchev: "Wouldn't it be better to compete in the relative merits of washing machines than in the strength of rockets?"
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
... taken on a tour of the recently opened American National Exhibition by the Soviet first secretary, Nikita Khrushchev.Billed as an international relations exercise, the exhibition was really a propaganda ploy with which the Americans hoped to dazzle the Soviets with consumer goodies. The politicians paused to examine a General Electric kitchen stuffed with labor-saving gizmos, and...
The RBC (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
The issues page of John McCain's campaign website doesn't have a section on foreign policy. National security, yes; homeland security, yes; Iraq, yes. But global diplomacy, even of the shoe-thumping type practiced by Nikita Khrushchev and John Bolton, is too trivial to rate a mention. (Minor and vague exception on climate change negotiations.) Why doesn't he score points with the base...
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Wikipedia The Guardian 's Luke Harding has a great piece on the potential for a South Ossetia-type conflict in Ukraine's Crimea region: Russian-speaking residents say the peninsula, a mass tourist destination in Soviet times, ended up in Ukraine by mistake. The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic in 1954. Russia affirmed the modern borders...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
... War tensions at the world body, immortalized by a 1960 incident in which then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on his table, faded after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, leading many to hope for a new era of cooperation.But, while politicians from both sides dismiss talk of a new Cold War, the increasing self-assertion of an oil-rich Russia had begun to impact anew...
Euractive (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
... conflict in Georgia. Poignant, who is an historian by training, recalls that the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev made the historic mistake of donating Crimea to Ukraine. Now Russia rents the naval base of Sevastopol from the country, but the lease contract expires in 2017 and the Russians do not want to take any chances, especially if Ukraine becomes a NATO member. "The Ukrainians...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... naval base. Many Russians believe it ended up with Ukraine because of a whimsical move in 1954 by Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, who was a former communist party boss for Ukraine.Since Kiev joined the World Trade Organization, Russian officials have signaled that they may impose duties on Ukrainian products. That would be a strong blow to Ukraine, a...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... Russians believe it ended up with Ukraine because of a whimsical move in 1954 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, a former communist party boss for Ukraine. Russian officials recently signaled that they may impose duties on Ukrainian products after Ukraine joined the World Trade Organization. That would be a strong blow to Ukraine, a quarter of whose exports are sold in Russia. Yushchenko's...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... naval base. Many Russians believe it ended up with Ukraine because of a whimsical move in 1954 by Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, who was a former communist party boss for Ukraine.Since Kiev joined the World Trade Organization, Russian officials have signaled that they may impose duties on Ukrainian products. That would be a strong blow to Ukraine, a...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... Russians believe it ended up with Ukraine because of a whimsical move in 1954 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, a former communist party boss for Ukraine.Russian officials recently signaled that they may impose duties on Ukrainian products after Ukraine joined the World Trade Organization. That would be a strong blow to Ukraine, a quarter of whose exports are sold in Russia.Mr....
