Wednesday, February 15, 2012


 

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher poses with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in 1987.

The Iron Lady Battles On

“The Iron Lady” is a term originally coined by a Red Army newspaper in 1975 to demonize Margaret Thatcher. It proved instead to be an uncanny prediction of her part in weakening the Red Army and destroying the Soviet Union. More

Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili speaks with Reuters journalists at his residence in Tbilisi on October 15.

Will This Billionaire Be Good For Georgian Democracy?

If the elevation of political competition in Georgia is completely dependent on the personal caprice of an eccentric billionaire who wants to buy power for money and whose real motives are obscured by fog, then it is far from clear that this development will elevate the quality of Georgia's democracy. More

Vladimir Putin has very good reasons to evade judicial scrutiny and stay in office.

Vladimir Putin: Russia's Last Tsar?

The elites in the Kremlin have one overriding political goal: to keep control for themselves. Their leaders have an urgent need to secure amnesty for their crimes -- and this is precisely why Vladimir Putin has to come back to presidential office for the next 12 years. More

Byalyatski has spent two months in jail

A Belarusian Prisoner For A Noble Cause

It is a typical modus operandi of repressive regimes to persecute their opposition by levying financial charges against them. More

Yulia Tymoshenko faces up to seven years in prison

Tymoshenko Prosecution Is A Dead End For Ukraine

This is the first time in contemporary Ukrainian history where the winner of a presidential contest has gone after the loser. It establishes a dangerous precedent. More

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