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Joseph Epstein is an analyst covering the post-Soviet space and the Middle East. He is a contributing writer to Newsweek and Novaya Gazeta and has been published in Foreign Policy, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Daily Beast and others.

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Dangerous games. The Kremlin's use of active measures to destabilise its enemies ignores their po...

Dangerous games. The Kremlin's use of active measures to destabilise its enemies ignores their po...

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Is Iran Facing Its Soviet Moment and Its End? | Opinion

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By Joseph Epstein
| Yahoo Verified
On September 13, 1985, Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani announced that his country would stop propping up the price of crude. Prices collapsed, and the Soviet Union lost roughly $20 billion a year in hard currency—"money without which the country simply could not survive," in the estimate of Yegor Gaidar, later Russia's acting prime minister. Gaidar dated the collapse of the Soviet Union to that announcement. Tehran is now in a weaker position than Moscow was in that autumn.
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Read ‘Catcher in the Rye’ When You’re Young, or Not at All

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By Joseph Epstein
| The Free Press Verified
Read ‘Catcher in the Rye’ When You’re Young, or Not at All Joseph Epstein revisits a coming-of-age classic. (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Getty Images) J.D. Salinger’s famous coming-of-age novel turned 75 this week. But if you ask Joseph Epstein, it’s not worth reading after the age of 20. I first read Catcher in the Ryea mere 71 yearsago, or four years after its initial publication in 1951. I was blown away by it.
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Pashinyan Won: Armenia’s Fate Is Still Up for Grabs

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By Joseph Epstein
| cacianalyst.org
By Joseph Epstein On June 7, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won the country’s parliamentary elections with just under 50 percent of the vote, enough under Armenia’s electoral system to govern alone with a comfortable majority.
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