Melik Kaylan, the fellow who in 2007 wrote a pretty popular travel piece about spending time in the Mikheil Saakashvili entourage, has a Georgia war anniversary opinion published on Forbes: The West has furnished way too many levers and excuses to...
Philip P. Pan of the Washington Post has some better information on the married couple who were murdered in Chechnya yesterday. Ramzan Kadryov’s quote is breathtaking: in explaining that he would have no reason to have one woman ...
From the President of the Russian Federation’s video blog, an attack on the Ukraine, which has been picked up by some news outlets. Medvedev’s complaints about the Ukrainian leadership are familiar – NATO, energy relations,...
Mary Dejevsky of the Independent believes that for Russia the South Ossetians and Abkhazians are basically, well, a pain in the ass. I credit Dejevsky for an original take on a tired subject, but a lot of things don’t add up. Rus...
Some people talk about Russia learning from the Iranian experience in the recent attack on an individual Georgian blogger – an impressive feat of hacking which actually succeeded in crashing Twitter and hampering Facebook with a DDOS attack ...
When the Chechen human rights worker Natalia Estemirova was snatched off the streets of Grozny and later deposited in a roadside ditch with a few bullets to the head, the grotesque brutality of the act was hard to swallow. In response, not a...
TODAY: Human rights activist and husband murdered; Medvedev has idea for military abroad; Georgia suggests the Kremlin seeking justification for incursion. Ukraine-Russia ties on the rocks; reports to be submitted about bribery. ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty takes the time to pick apart the words of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov – the consistencies and contradictions reveal, well, a frightening and important reality. Many aspects of Kadyrov’s interpretation ...
Joshua Tucker, a political science professor from NYU and blogger at the Monkey Cage, has this opinion piece in the New Republic: In short, little related to this war has changed; despite the Russian military victory, neither side can really claim...
TODAY: Medvedev firm on realignment of Caucasus; pledges support for the breakaway territories; details of Cyxymu hacking case emerge. Justice for Politkovskaya meets obstacles; Kadyrov shows little love for Estemirova; Putin celebrates ten ...
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