Reading the Russian mind

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: March 3, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

HERB KEINON
Jerusalem Post
03-03-2005
Headline: Reading the Russian mind
Byline: HERB KEINON
Edition; Daily
Section: Features
Page: 13

Thursday, March 3, 2005 -- 'I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia," Winston Churchill said in October 1939, coining one of his most memorable phrases. "It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."

But where Churchill dared not go, at least in public, the heads of the Foreign Ministry's Center for Diplomatic Research - the ministry's intelligence branch that gives an annual ...

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