I just published a quick rant on Huffington Post after watching Joe Scarborough complain and moan about how the U.S. is going it alone on Afghanistan during his morning MSNBC show. It’s no wonder so many countries are getting into bed ...
Whilst opposition leaders may still be in up in arms about October 11’s sweeping United Russia victory, Clifford J Levy in the New York Times wonders why it is that the furor about allegations of vote-rigging seem to have very little in the ...
The AP offers us the strangely poetic tale of the Aral Sea. Under the aegis of Soviet industrial planners, the Central Asian Sea, at one point the world’s fourth-largest body of fresh water, became little more than a glorified irrigati...
The race for Ukraine’s Presidency is hotting up. With the incumbent serial Kremlin-offender Viktor Yushchenko flagging with ratings of just 3%, it seems that battle has truly commenced between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposi...
Today’s headlines speak of the bleak but sadly not unfamiliar news of another human rights activist being murdered in the North Caucasus. On Sunday, businessman and rights defender Maksharip Aushev was killed when 60 rounds of bullets ...
Russia ‘counts on a controlling stake‘ in the three small hydropower plants it is building in Tajikistan and ‘hope[s] for the Tajik side’s understanding‘ in the matter. The United Nations nuclear watchdog is in ...
The ever-positive Vladimir Putin is forecasting 8% inflation for the coming year, which would be a ‘post-Soviet low‘. The government will sell tons of its gold stockpile this year to cover its budget deficit and help it fund othe...
TODAY: Medvedev defends elections, says open to dialogue; Nashi files lawsuits with foreign papers; mafia boss praised by public; Ingush opposition leader killed; Serbia-Russia pact; reverse on Goldstone vote? Dmitry Medvedev defended Russia&...
As many of you know, today is the sixth anniversary of the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. On Oct. 25, 2003, a team of spetsnaz armed to the teeth raided an airplane on a snowy Novosibirsk runway, behaving as though they were taking down the...
From Robert Amsterdam’s latest in the Huffington Post: But it is clear to those of us who have watched and listened to Khodorkovsky over these years that his beliefs, spirit and convictions have only deepened. When he first became a politica...
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