Caucasus
July 23, 2010by David J. Smith The Paris Court of Commerce last week handed a victory to the Russian propaganda machine, allowing French satellite operator Eutelsat—one quarter French Government-owned—to bar Tbilisi-based First Caucasus Television from...
Are more border changes ahead in Eurasia?
May 21, 2010By Paul Goble Since 1991, the post-Soviet governments and the international community have been adamant against any change in the borders in Eurasia, and many expressed concerns that one of the results of Moscow’s decision to recognize...
Russian journalist puts on a hijab to test Muscovites’ reactions
April 29, 2010By Paul Goble In an update of John Howard Griffin’s 1961 classic study of racism in the US, “Black Like Me,” in which a white journalist passed as a black man, a Russian writer donned a hijab in order to see for herself just how the...
Circassians in North Caucasus hail Georgia’s move on recognizing genocide
April 05, 2010By Valery Dzutsev Circassian genocide issue gains more publicity and support in the Northwest Caucasus The main reaction of Circassians living in their historical homeland in the North Caucasus to the seminal conference on the Circassian genocide...
Interview: Garry Kasparov talks about Putin's endgame
March 11, 2010Former world chess champion and current Kremlin gadfly Garry Kasparov sat down recently with RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service correspondent Ibragim Bayamduroglu to talk about the Russian political landscape. In a wide-ranging interview, Kasparov interprets...
Medvedev and Putin pay surprise visits to the North Caucasus
March 03, 2010By Valery Dzutsev The North Caucasus receives unprecedented attention from Russian leaders On March 1, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made an unannounced brisk visit to the North Caucasus. In the North Ossetian town of Beslan, Putin met the head of...
The gathering storm: Russia's expertise in arms dealing
February 25, 2010By Rick Santorum Last week I spoke at CPAC about Iran as the principal sponsor of terrorism around the world. As my recent op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer explains, once armed with atomic capabilities, the regime could turn the world order upside...
U.S. envoy for Eurasian energy explains goals, strategy for region
February 01, 2010By Heather Maher The U.S. government's special envoy for Eurasian energy has laid out the White House's approach to Eurasian energy policy in a speech in Washington. Ambassador Richard Morningstar told a group at the Center for American Progress...
Basescu urges OSCE to back Moldova's democratic aspirations
October 08, 2009Romanian President Traian Basescu called on the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, to support, by OSCE projects, Moldova's European and democratic aspirations, the presidential administration...
Lawless Atmosphere Cited in Death of Russian Journalist
July 16, 2009By Peter Fedynsky Russian activists are blaming Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for maintaining a climate that resulted in Wednesday's murder in the Caucasus of journalist Natalya Estemirova. Her colleagues from the Memorial human rights organization...