Russia’s U.S. Grant
Boris Yeltsin is a lot like Ulysses S. Grant, and I think history will treat him in the same way as his American predecessor. Both men were heroes with alcoholic ...
Viva Putin?
David Pryce-Jones finds the Putin government to be an odious regime. The question is, why do millions of Russians appear to disagree with his assessment?
The short answer, popular in the ...
When He Isn’t Orange
So far, the Bush administration has adopted a prudent course of action vis-à-vis the unfolding political crisis in Ukraine. On Tuesday, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack reiterated: “[O]ur view is ...
Putin on the Throwback
Russian president Vladimir Putin has a problem — one that can’t be solved by hiring a slick Washington public-relations firm.
The death, under highly suspicious circumstances, of Ivan Safronov, an investigative ...
Putin on the Ritz
St. Petersburg, Russia — The Russians certainly put on a good show at the G-8 summit in St. Petersburg.
The former capital shone with imperial glory and, if one ignored the ...
VPOTUS in Vilnius
Vice President Dick Cheney is not known for acting on rash or sudden impulses. So his remarks about Russia delivered last week in Vilnius, which some sources assert were carefully ...
Orange Turmoil
The political crisis in Ukraine is a stark wake-up call for those politicians and pundits who were so quick last winter to laud what they viewed as the inevitable, quick ...
Georgia On Our Mind
The era of democracy promotion via European Union and NATO expansion is over. Throughout the 1990s, the West held up the lure of full membership in the key institutions of ...
Putin’s No Stalin
Does Russia have a “democracy deficit?” Certainly–and an adviser to President Vladimir Putin, Andrei Illarionov, made this point clear in a New Year’s Eve interview on the Moscow radio station ...
“People Power” 2004?
Who is the next president of Ukraine? With over 99 percent of the vote counted, the country’s Central Election Commission announced that current prime minister Viktor Yanukovych had received 49.42 ...