This is from a new interview with David Satter on the International Affairs Forum: The other thing that I heard, and that I think is credible, is that they need time to prepare a kind of pretext. It’s not a simple direct invasion of Georgia ...
It is unfortunate how rare it is to get these kinds of reports from deep Chechnya. What we don’t know about what happens there could fill a sea. Kadyrov has declared an ‘all-out war’ on separatist rebels by France_24english
Just saw this one at EurActiv. It might be a problem when a government is asked twice in just one week to show that it is interested in investigating the murders of two separate human rights advocates. The president of the European Parliamen...
So much for the reset, writes Steve LeVine, as Joe Biden visited both Kiev and Tbilisi stating that Washington will continue to support their drive for NATO membership if that is the route they choose to take. He does a very good job explain...
Irakli Alasania, a key leader of the Georgian opposition, has a sober article published in the Wall Street Journal today, criticizing the authoritarian measures of President Mikheil Saakashvili: The government enacted a range of economic reforms, ...
TODAY: Russia says no to Georgia rearmament; Biden firm on support for Georgia, asserts that democracy and prosperity key to reintegration of rebel territories. Incumbent president of Kyrgyzstan looks set to win; the opposition claims electo...
We had read several rumors reported in the past about the Russian authorities making legal moves to avoid their obligation to pay compensation to victims who had won cases in the European Court of Human Rights. Fresh over the wire on RBK Dai...
Writing in Novaya Gazeta, Yulia Latynina argues that the Russian leadership has been too heavy handed in its use as natural gas as a political lever, and that the past aggression has come back to hit them like a boomerang. Translation in ful...
Here’s a disturbing piece of news courtesy of the Newsru.com Technology page. Disturbing not only because it portends yet more restrictions on the free flow of information in Russia on the heels of the recently implemented law permitting the...
So Ukraine, you want to invite Joe Biden here, talking this and that about your “territorial integrity” … How about we drive around some mobile missile trucks on the streets of Sevastopol right after he leaves the country, and se...
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