David J. Smith* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the Federal Assembly on November 5 that he will deploy SS-26 Iskander short-range semi-ballistic missiles in the heart of Central Europe. But Moscow’s rhetorical missile...
Three months ago, 6-year-old Mariam Murusidze was cowering in her grandparents' home in the Republic of Georgia as Russian tanks rumbled outside her bedroom window, desperately wishing she could come to America to live with her...
By Robert V. Daniels ROBERT V. DANIELS, a frequent NEW LEADER contributor, is professor emeritus of history at the University of Vermont. Is the future of the West’s relationship with Russia as dire as many contend in the wake...
Obama’s honeymoon will be brief. He faces the extraordinary challenge of dealing with a nation that has plunged into bankruptcy and exported financial crises around the globe due to a reckless orgy of borrowing and outright...
MEETING WITH GRAIN SUPPLIERS HELD AT SCR Noyan Tapan http://www.nt.am?shownews=1009585 Nov 7, 2008 YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 7, NOYAN TAPAN. A meeting with representatives of the following companies: Manana Grain, Salex Group, Mancho...
The crackle of gunfire at night makes sleep all but impossible along Georgia's border with separatist Abkhazia, feeding the fears of so many here that the war they hoped was over may be erupting anew. >>
RUSSIA TRIES TO LURE AZERBAIJAN INTO ITS ORBIT AND SNUFF OUT THE NABUCCO GASLINE PROJECT By Bedros Terzian, with permission of Petrostrategies http://www.civilitasfoundation.org/analysis/081103oil.html Nov 6, 2008 Russia is...
Moscow (UPI) Oct 31, 2008 - On Oct. 21, Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with his Russian counterpart, Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov, at a mansion outside Helsinki, Finland.
A Powder Keg of a Region November 1, 2008 By Dmitry Babich Russia Profile The problems in the Caucasus did not start in the 1990s, when the region attracted attention from the Western press. It was then that the first protests...
Russia Profile, Russia Nov 1 2008 A Taste of War By Sergei Balashov Russia Profile Ethnic Restaurants in Russia Are Affected by Disputes in the Caucasus Yet despite perturbations in their ancestral lands, Armenian, Azerbaijani,...