Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Leonid Brezhnev" produced 10 items.
| 1. Dear Barack, please don't forget us in these difficult times | July 23, 2009 |
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An open letter to the US president has heavyweight support but many of its ideas are rooted in the past. Voices do not carry easily across the Atlantic. But when they belong... | |
| 2. Barroso gets the youth vote | June 18, 2009 |
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Forget Sarkozy and Merkel, the Commission president has the backing of Youth for Europe. If it is physically possible to combine toe-curling with stomach-churning, then a... |
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| 3. Study the kiss, see if you can tell | June 28, 2007 |
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Nikita Khrushchev once claimed to have seen Konrad Adenauer naked. “From behind,” he said, “it's obvious Germany will be divided forever. And having looked at him from... | |
| 4. The chilling fog of the new cold war | December 7, 2006 |
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Like analogies which involve the Second World War, the ‘new cold war' is not a phrase to use lightly. Or maybe at all: Russia now is not seeking military domination of... | |
| 5. Why Putin is a truly likeable lad | October 26, 2006 |
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Over the last 90 years Russia has been ruled by two types of men: short, malevolent cholerics or plump, bragging buffoons. Together with his great predecessors Vladimir... | |
| 6. Elections will mark 2006 | January 12, 2006 |
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Former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev reputedly said that "the trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win". After 2005, EU diplomats may well agree.... | |
| 7. Putin's poodle? | October 30, 2003 |
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IT IS tempting to call him Putin's poodle. As Russia's ambassador to the European Union, Mikhail Fradkov is essentially the mouthpiece of President Vladimir Putin in... | |
| 8. Chirac's ‘badly brought-up' Poles maintain their pro-US stance on war with Iraq | February 27, 2003 |
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As their referendum approaches, Polish feelings on Iraq and the reaction to Jacques Chirac's outburst are pivotal. THE legacy of tyrants is all too visible. Fear and courage... | |
| 9. PROFILE: The old soldier: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | January 17, 2002 |
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Gareth Harding WHEN Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt rose to announce who would head the Convention on the future of Europe at the Laeken summit last month, there was... | |
| 10. Why Laeken wasn't quite the summit of the Belgian presidency's ambitions | December 20, 2001 |
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Gareth Harding DURING THE 19th century, European leaders used to meet in royal palaces to settle scores, divvy up political posts and sketch out grand designs for the future... | |
