Archive - 2004

The US Central Command (CentCom) has a webpage up detailing “international contributions to the war on terror” by the members of the coalition against terror. Here’s some of what they have to say about...

Dan Darling over at Winds of Change has written a special analysis of the life and times of Abu Walid, the Chechen terrorist who was killed earlier this week. Here’s the bottom line: As an Afghan-trained Saudi al...

News is coming out that Abdul Aziz al-Ghamdi (also know as Abul Walid), the Saudi leader of the International Islamic Peacekeeping Brigade in Chechnya has been killed. He was thought to be behind many of the recent...

The Times has an excellent article today about the NATO expansion into the Baltics that gives a really good insight into why Russia isn’t happy. Moscow’s hawkish position is partly based on practical military...

Today is Cosmonaut Day in Russia. Which probably explains the spate of space-themed news articles coming out of Russia this weekend. First up is the attempt by one enterprising company, Aerospace Systems, to re-ignite...

Looks like Mikhail Khodorkovsky upset the prison authorities for writing his recent letter: Crisis of Liberalism in Russia. All mail going in and out of Russian jails is supposed to be read and censored (if necessary)...

There was a big ceremony in Brussels today to mark the latest phase of NATO’s eastward expansion. Lots of flags being raised and much excitement, I’m sure. But not in Russia. Although it doesn’t have a...

The biggest news coming out of Russia in the last couple of days has to be jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s open letter – The Crisis of Liberalism in Russia. It’s long, but well worth reading in full. The...

A quick roundup of views on the Russian election from around the english speaking blogosphere for your education, enjoyment, or work-avoidance. Follow the links for the full posts. First up, Alexei at Russian Dilettante...

Yes, of course, Putin romped home by a country mile. With 97.5% of the votes counted the (almost) result is as follows… Vladimir Putin, 71.1% (48.05 million votes) Nikolai Kharitonov, 13.8% (9.3 million votes)...