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  • Nicholas
    Clayton     98     An Inconvenient Truth: Our New Friends Have Enemies Too
    Last week, I told a group of Georgian journalists that I’d had some of my first interest from international publications in a regional story in a long time. “You can probably guess what it was about,” I said. Silence. They looked at each other and threw out a few suggestions. “No, not the deal between Georgia and Turkey to r...
  • Lika
    Barabadze     89     Why I Don't Watch (Georgian) TV
    I get obsessed with things. Films, music, actors. If something shakes me up, I tend to cling to it. This time, it is BBC series Sherlock and the brilliant leading actor, Benedict Cumberbatch. Yes, I am that obsessed--I can actually spell and pronounce that name correctly. The first time I heard that BBC plans to adapt Sherlock Holmes to be set in ...
  • Nicholas
    Clayton     2 52     Everyone Is Lying to You About the Missile Shiled. Everyone
    Since 2006, Russia and the United States have been sparring diplomatically over NATO’s plan to deploy radar and missile interceptors to Europe. The U.S. and NATO claim that the European “Missile Shield” is designed to be able to shoot down nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles emanating from Iran or North Korea. Russia claims it is a ...
  • James
    Brooke     25     WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange and Kremlin TV: Anti-Westernism Makes for Bizarre Bedfellows
    Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks transparency advocate and leaker of about 115,000 confidential U.S. government emails, has found a new home: a talk show on RT, or Russia Today, the English language TV channel funded by the Kremlin. Shortly after WikiLeaks released the American classified documents in 2010, Assange announced his next step: publishing ...
  • James
    Brooke     46     Ghosts of Revolution Serve as Political Brakes in Russia
    YEKATINERINBURG – In the gray twilight of a winter afternoon, the black and white photographs appear before the church walls like ghosts. These ghosts may well inoculate Russia against revolution this spring, when political passions may rise with the temperatures. The ghosts are Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, their son, Alexei, and th...
  • James
    Brooke     64     Russia: Revolution of the Well-fed, Well-dressed and Well-informed
    At 8pm Friday night, I decided to close up shop in VOA’s Moscow office and fly to Odessa, Ukraine, for the weekend. Moscow’s weekend forecast was -30C, my trip to Central Asia had been cancelled, and the Black Sea sounded like a good mid-winter break. I did not have an airline ticket, but I knew the schedule. Three hours later, at 11 pm...
  • James
    Brooke     64     Russia’s Generation Gap: Аста Ла Виста, беби!
    Their backs to the massive Lenin statue on October Square, the Anarchists were spoiling for a fight. Dressed in black, the young men and women jumped up and down, straining at their rope lines, and chanting again and again: “Аста Ла Виста, беби!Аста Ла Виста, беби!” I asked a middle aged man who was detouring over a snow bank, giving th...
  • James
    Brooke     26     Russia and Iran: Uneasy Neighbors — Since the 16th Century
    Countries without natural borders are like amoebas. Over centuries, they expand and contract, expand and contract. A quiet time in Russian-Persian relations. Shah Suleiman I receives two envoys from Georgia at his court in Isfahan in 1670. Painting by Ali Qoli Jabbador. The Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg. As the Western world wonders...
  • Nicholas
    Clayton     98     An Inconvenient Truth: Our New Friends Have Enemies Too
    Last week, I told a group of Georgian journalists that I’d had some of my first interest from international publications in a regional story in a long time. “You can probably guess what it was about,” I said. Silence. They looked at each other and threw out a few suggestions. “No, not the deal between Georgia and Turkey to r...
  • Lika
    Barabadze     89     Why I Don't Watch (Georgian) TV
    I get obsessed with things. Films, music, actors. If something shakes me up, I tend to cling to it. This time, it is BBC series Sherlock and the brilliant leading actor, Benedict Cumberbatch. Yes, I am that obsessed--I can actually spell and pronounce that name correctly. The first time I heard that BBC plans to adapt Sherlock Holmes to be set in ...
  • Nicholas
    Clayton     2 52     Everyone Is Lying to You About the Missile Shiled. Everyone
    Since 2006, Russia and the United States have been sparring diplomatically over NATO’s plan to deploy radar and missile interceptors to Europe. The U.S. and NATO claim that the European “Missile Shield” is designed to be able to shoot down nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles emanating from Iran or North Korea. Russia claims it is a ...
  • James
    Brooke     72     Can Russia’s Democracy Movement Lift the Weight of History?
    My sons and I are in St. Petersburg, walking across Palace Square toward the green and white baroque façade of the Winter Palace, now the Hermitage Museum. In my mind’s eye, I see images from Dr. Zhivago recreating in film that snowy Sunday of January 22, 1905. Tens of thousands of protesters are converging on Palace Square, carrying p...
  • James
    Brooke     46     Ghosts of Revolution Serve as Political Brakes in Russia
    YEKATINERINBURG – In the gray twilight of a winter afternoon, the black and white photographs appear before the church walls like ghosts. These ghosts may well inoculate Russia against revolution this spring, when political passions may rise with the temperatures. The ghosts are Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, their son, Alexei, and th...
  • James
    Brooke     64     Russia: Revolution of the Well-fed, Well-dressed and Well-informed
    At 8pm Friday night, I decided to close up shop in VOA’s Moscow office and fly to Odessa, Ukraine, for the weekend. Moscow’s weekend forecast was -30C, my trip to Central Asia had been cancelled, and the Black Sea sounded like a good mid-winter break. I did not have an airline ticket, but I knew the schedule. Three hours later, at 11 pm...
  • James
    Brooke     64     Russia’s Generation Gap: Аста Ла Виста, беби!
    Their backs to the massive Lenin statue on October Square, the Anarchists were spoiling for a fight. Dressed in black, the young men and women jumped up and down, straining at their rope lines, and chanting again and again: “Аста Ла Виста, беби!Аста Ла Виста, беби!” I asked a middle aged man who was detouring over a snow bank, giving th...
  • Lika
    Barabadze     186     Under the Rugs Swept: Unseen World of Prostitution
    Here I am, writing from the land of freedom, liberty and acceptance—and not in Tbilisi, of course. Just to be clear, it is not USA either. I am seating in the student dorm in Hague, Netherlands, attempting to finish this post while I’m still lucid. It’s December 25th, we have turned on the Christmas music, bought a miniature tree ...

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