Russians Turn Against Putin


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Anti-Kremlin demonstrations signal a political awakening by the Russian public.

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Putin Lashes Out


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The Russian autocrat blames Secretary of State Clinton for instigating the backlash to his rigged election.

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Summing Up Obama (So Far)


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It’s still a legitimate question: Who is he?

Was Russia Responsible for Poland’s Air Disaster?


‘The elite of Poland have been struck down just as they were 70 years ago,’ said former Polish President, Lech Walesa of the plane crash that claimed the sitting Polish President, Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and most of Poland’s top government officials. The plane was en route to a commemoration of the 1940 Katyn massacre [...]

A Russian Coup in Kyrgyzstan?


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The government of Kurmanbek Bakiyev, which has hosted a critical U.S. air base since 2001, is overthrown by pro-Russian forces.

When Do We Stand With Putin? When Jihad Comes To Russia


Yesterday, two female suicide bombers killed themselves and 39 others at two of Moscow’s subway stations. 70 innocent Muscovites were hospitalized, five of whom are in critical condition.
Russia’s Director of the Federal Security Bureau, Alexander Bortnikov, said that this gruesome terrorist attack was most likely carried out by “a terrorist group from the northern Caucasus.” Matt Gurney [...]

Palestinians Glorify a Terrorist


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And Obama denounces Israel for building homes.

Putin vs. Khodorkovsky: The Courtroom as Battlefield


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The soldiers are lawyers, and the result of their combat will determine Russia’s future.

Gorby the Democrat


Mikhail Gorbachev is a living negation of the axiom that history is written by the winners. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, whose existence he tried desperately to salvage, Gorbachev has improbably recast himself as a heroic democrat who, however imperfectly, brought down the edifice of communist repression and now champions democracy for his [...]

Remembering a Dissident


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My father, Yuri Glazov, risked his life standing up against the Soviet regime. Was his battle in vain?