The former wrestler and South Ossetian separatist Eduard Kokoity is quite a character. I’m not sure what his first act of state was as president of the newly “independent” South Ossetia – drinking three liters of wine, orga...
Apparently Russia’s Ambassador to NATO Dmitri Rogozin seems to believe that terrorist murder of thousands on U.S. soil is comparable to Georgia’s attempt to reign in its own separatists. I believe this is offensive and incredulous, and...
I believe that anyone who tries to argue that they aren’t surprised, concerned, and upset about the recent blustery behavior of Russia in the execution and aftermath of the war in Georgia is probably not being honest. Not many people thought...
Barack Obama’s statement can be read here: “The United States should call for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to condemn Russia’s decision in coordination with our European allies. The U.S. should lead within the...
It seems abundantly clear that no one in Moscow is particularly concerned by these kind of pronouncements or feeble diplomacy, but here goes what French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner is saying: “We cannot accept these violations of inter...
French political philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has a very passionate article of conclusions about the war in today’s Wall Street Journal: – Western public opinion fell with disconcerting facility for the thesis advanced — from t...
Events in the month of August have certainly placed our modern notions of nationalism, identity, sovereignty, and the Westphalian concept of the nation state under close scrutiny. This bit from Alvaro Vargas Llosa on individual sovereignty and the...
Law professor Ethan Burger has an interesting article on political interference in Russia’s judicial processes in Legal Times. In light of the ongoing pillaging of more and more companies and seizures of private property all while the state ...
I am only being somewhat facetious in the title of this post, but I just wanted to underscore the logic expressed in Medvedev’s Financial Times editorial yesterday, “Why I had to recognise Georgia’s breakaway regions,” which pres...
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