Covered on this channel for you and one of them has been the new cold war between russia and the west. The tensions now extend from the battlefields of syria to the sea lanes of the arctic but the bad blood started in 2014 with the war in ukraine. Two years on russia still backs separatist rebels fighting the ukraine government. Tonight im taking you on the front line with russia, poland, roe romania, bulgaria, and competing for special Natural Resources with new urgency. Lets again the journey now with a special report. Its 10 a. M. On an autumn morning in stran tran sylvania. It is a routine nato exercise in military readiness. One minute but demonstrations of force like this have taken on a influence urgency for the west. Here beside the carpathian mountains in romania these soldiers are training for battle. Just a seven hour drive from ukraine where russian backed separatists set off the worst confrontation between moscow and the west since the end of the cold war. Roe romanians an
Lanes of the arctic but the bad blood started in 2014 with the war in ukraine. Two years on russia still backs separatist rebels fighting the ukraine government. Tonight im taking you on the front line with russia, poland, roromania, bulgaria, and competg for special Natural Resources with new urgency. Lets again the journey now with a special report. Its 10 a. M. On an autumn morning in stra tran sylvania. It is a routine nato exercise in military readiness. One minute but demonstrations of force like this have taken on a influence urgency for the west. Here beside the carpathian mountains in romania these soldiers are training for battle. Just a seven hour drive from ukraine where russian backed separatists set off the worst confrontation between moscow and the west since the end of the cold war. Roromanians and others who worry about past aggressions, worried about stopping an emboldened Vladimir Putin. Cold war is a reality, now we live in a new cold war but its a danger for the re
Covered on this channel for you and one of them has been the new cold war between russia and the west. The tensions now extend from the battlefields of syria to the sea lanes of the arctic but the bad blood started in 2014 with the war in ukraine. Two years on russia still backs separatist rebels fighting the ukraine government. Tonight im taking you on the front line with russia, poland, roe romania, bulgaria, and competing for special Natural Resources with new urgency. Lets again the journey now with a special report. Its 10 a. M. On an autumn morning in stran tran sylvania. It is a routine nato exercise in military readiness. One minute but demonstrations of force like this have taken on a influence urgency for the west. Here beside the carpathian mountains in romania these soldiers are training for battle. Just a seven hour drive from ukraine where russian backed separatists set off the worst confrontation between moscow and the west since the end of the cold war. Roe romanians an
Books about them to explain their past. Those books be due to other books. Often very obscure ones. We travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. The relationship between travel and good books is inextricable brian . Why a book about romania . Robert i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. Where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. Brian 1973 . Robert my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. I stayed in Youth Hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. Weaverey taught me reading that all these countries were the same. What i found in 1973 was at they were all extremely different from each other because even communism could not erase their ethnic histories, geographies, cultures. Really start not my session with romania. That happened later. It happened in 1981. In the fall. I was getting out of the Israeli Defense forces. I was in jerusalem. , a seeminglyk obscure book by
Announcer tonight on the communicators, we will examine the Communications Act with two of its chief authors will stop jack fields and senator edward markey. The two will discuss whether the act is outdated and whether it should be rewritten. Words like google and hulu are popular today, but they were not there before the app. Moved not only our own country but the world from analog to digital and our goal was to take away the lines of demarcation that prevented competition. The competitive forces, it created the investment that was able to bring us to this world debate. Announcer watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan two. Next q acoming up with robert kaplan. Then, the washington journal. Andill talk about the life legacy of nancy reagan, who died yesterday at the age of 94. Announcer this week, robert kaplan. Mr. Kaplan discusses his book, in europes shadow two cold wars and a thirtyyear journey through romania and beyond. Brian robert kaplan, in your you sta