eastern europe

Via the AP:

Corker talked to reporters Friday after returning Thursday from a week in the area, which included visits to Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan.

At least, according to Focus on the Family, we are.

Among their predictions are...

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Yes, it has been a few days since I checked in, hasn’t it? I can’t believe it is already Thursday, when it feels like just yesterday I posted a Feel Good Friday video!

The party's over for investors in non-defense foreign industry:

It is perhaps true that there is little America or any of its European allies could do to oust Russia from  South Ossetia.  And thus many have remarked that since against a nuclear-armed Russia, NATO can do nada, why extend the false promise of alliance to Georgia?  Let’s save that debate for another time. 

Nineteen years after Germany’s loss of the First World War, the defeated European nation reasserted itself in Czechoslovakia. European powers, tired of war, forced the Czechs to cede the German-speaking Sudetenland to Hitler.

Nineteen years ago the Soviet Union was defeated in Eastern Europe . . .

I have already noted how ignorant I am of geography.

One of my friends, Bill Woehler, left yesterday for a missions trip to Moldova, a small country in Eastern Europe (see the following links to learn more about the country:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova

www.bcfs.net/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?&pid=249&srcid=237

In 1989 the world stood still as the Berlin Wall fell and massive protests erupted in the Soviet Union. The whole world was watching as ordinary Russian people lay down in front of tanks, risking their lives in the name of freedom. In the resulting months, dramatic changes redrew maps throughout Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

It won’t make you whole. Katie Allison Granju reports on the correlation between happiness and one’s form of political government: