Perhaps you’ve heard of the recent unpleasantness between The Russian Federation and the Republic of Georgia. A fine diary touched on this topic yesterday, and I invite all of you to check out allmost liberal...
Read MoreTBILISI, Georgia, May 9 — Maybe it was his wife’s televised teasing about going to bed so early, but “Mr. Excitement,” as Laura Bush sarcastically dubbed the president a week ago, seemed eager to live up...
Read More[S]ome might not want this sort of freedom which reeks of oil and is splattered with blood.” – Belarus president Aleksandr Lukashenko, a Soviet-style dictator Condi, who has scorned Belarus as “the last true...
Read MorePhoto courtesy of Reuters There are very few independent media reporters inside Kyrgyzstan but stories are starting to come out, predominantly via the Russian press. Just as I covered the Ukraine elections at the end of 2004, I...
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