Archive - December 2004

Nick at A Fistful of Euros has an interesting article up about what the Ukraine crisis could mean for the EU a couple of decades from now. I have a feeling that the Ukrainian crisis may, when we look back at it from ten...

The Sunday Times today passes on an interesting rumour that Russia is going to offer sanctuary Ukraine’s outgoing President Leonid Kuchma should he be forced to flee .  The Russian president, Vladimir Putin...

And not only that – he wants India to have a veto vote, too. "I am convinced that permanent seats on the Security Council should have veto power, otherwise it would be a one-sided reform of the U.N.,"...

Uzbek President Islam Karimov, in complete contrast to his earlier comments on the subject, today announced that Russia’s meddling in Ukraine’s election was counterproductive: “Russia’s excessive...

Much of my focus has been on Ukraine recently, and coverage of Russia has suffered.  To balance things out somewhat, here is a brief roundup of what has been going on there for the past week or so.  I’m...