Tag Archives: russia

Links, Russia-Georgia Conflict Edition, 8/28/2008

Globalsecurity.org is very reliable, and often contains facts you don’t see reported anywhere else, but are vital to making a judgment of any sort. Sometimes a judgment is made in the mere reporting of facts, for example from their front page on this topic now: “Russian officials and Russian commentators magnified the significance of this

International Relations 101: How did Post-Cold War US Policy Create The Russia Of Today?

An executive summary of the Sept. 2000 Congressional report “Russia’s Road To Corruption,” authors listed here. (btw – free and fair elections in Russia today) The report accuses the Clinton administration of neglecting foreign policy generally, and getting too chummy with Russian officials who might not have been completely honest: “In 1995, CIA officials dispatched

Fun in Russia

From Michael Weiss in the Weekly Standard: According to one of his other lawyers, Karinna Moskalenko, Kasparov has wisely shunned all food and water provided to him by the authorities, going on what may be history’s first self-preserving hunger strike, and he has been given no phone call or visitation rights. Technorati Tags: russia, putin,

The Death of Freedom

Not good. Not good at all. Kasparov and his allies mustered, by their own reckoning, about 2,000 people — far fewer than the 30,000 people who patronize the McDonald’s restaurant at Pushkin Square on an average day. But some protesters said they were not discouraged by the small turnout or intimidated by the overwhelming force