Tag: international relations

Marco Polo – died 8 January 1324. 700 years ago.

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Marco Polo (born c. 1254, Venice [Italy] – died January 8, 1324, Venice) a Venetian merchant and adventurer who travelled from Europe to Asia in 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years, and whose Il milione (“The Million”), known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo, is a classic of travel literature. He was one of the first westerners to visit China. Marco […]

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Will Russia ever have another Gorbachev

.Reading time 9 minutes.

Not too long ago there was hope that Russia and the West would soon be allies and that Europe would enjoy a long-lasting peace.  Much of the credit for that hopeful era belongs to Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the 20th Century’s most consequential and transformative leaders.  Thirty-eight years after Gorbachev became the final General Secretary of the Communist […]

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