Author: FarEasterner

If you shiver in chilly weather of winter in Northern hemisphere you might envy me – I am still in tropical India. I did not write anything substantial on blogs recently though I was tempted to ink a thing or two on...

Announcement by Dmitry Medvedev, spokesman of all-powerful Russian PM Vladimir Putin, of recognition of independence of Georgian rebel regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, dramatically raised the stakes in the ongoing...

Few thoughts on developments in Pakistan. So president Musharraf finally buckled under government’s pressure and resigned in televised swan song which ended with appropriate farewell “Bye-Bye Pakistan”. Yet...

This is my take on situation on war between Russia and Georgia over the latter’s separatist regions and its consequences for antagonists and Russia-Western relations.Georgia Common refrain now is that Saakashvili gambled...

I am writer (history and guidebooks), living in self-imposed 😉 exile in India, recently I was asked by diplomatic magazine to write an article about Tibetan question.It’s not a matter of my primary interest (subject of my...