Tag: NATO (4)

Aug 17

Putin's Labyrinth #5: Bush's Consequential Misunderstanding of Putin

Steve LeVine, author of Putin’s Labyrinth, discusses why it matters that George W. Bush got Putin wrong.

Posted Aug 17, 2008

Aug 17

Putin's Labyrinth #4: Oil Companies Get Screwed in Russia

Steve LeVine, author of Putin’s Labyrinth, poses the question of why oil companies - repeatedly done under in Russia - keep returning for more.

Posted Aug 17, 2008

Aug 17

Putin's Labyrinth #3: Is Putin Complicit in the Murder of Alexander Litvinenko?

Steve LeVine, author of Putin’s Labyrinth, discusses whether Russia’s prime minister had any role in the slaying of KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko, who died after someone slipped polonium-210, a nuclear isotope, into his tea in a London hotel in 2006.

Posted Aug 17, 2008

Aug 16

Putin's Labyrinth #1: Reasons to Admire Vladimir Putin

Steve LeVine, author of Putin’s Labyrinth, explains why Putin’s actions are defensible—except, he argues, when it crosses over into murder. And as we see now, into invading other countries.

Posted Aug 16, 2008