Russian troops in South Ossetia - Protests mount over obsolescent weapons
A military post-mortem shows that Russian forces taking part in the South Ossetian operation last month were scandalously short of modern equipment.
4 October 2008 - Full text...

Lukashenko veering westward? - Motives + meaning of a seeming turnround
Belarus votes for a new upper house of parliament on 28 September, amid trappings of an extraordinary public relations campaign
25 September 2008 - Full text...

Battered Georgia - Time running out for Saakashvili
The main collateral damage from Georgia’s failed military operation, apart from the loss of Abkhazia and South Ossetia for the foreseeable future, is to the prospects for the President’s
20 September 2008 - Full text...

First Georgia, now Ukraine - Paranoia, and poison, again
President Medvedev undiplomatically called President Saakashvili a political corpse. Now President Yushchenko is doing his best to win the title too.
7 September 2008 - Full text...

Thirty-one Days - 01-31 August, 2008
Chronology and Internet guide to Russia/Eurasia-related events in the international press during August 2008
4 September 2008 - Full text...

Russia and Europe - Slipping hands on a dangerous rope
Endless confusion is promised over the implementation of the Georgia cease-fire agreement, but one thing is sure: Russia-West relations are in a downspin, which even the ‘old’ Europe will now find hard to stop
3 September 2008 - Full text...

Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh - A new perception
A Western analyst takes a fresh approach to the solution of ‘frozen conflicts’ in the Caucasus.
25 August 2008 - Full text...

Russia and Georgia - Farewell to arms limitation?
Reports from South Ossetia show the Russian forces to have been better led, and the Georgians better equipped, than either side expected. But Russia is the winner, and the gloomy lesson for anti-militarists is that armed force pays.
18 August 2008 - Full text...

Russia and Georgia - Days that changed the world
Coming days will further expose erroneous assumptions on which the West has based its Great Game with Russia.
13 August 2008 - Full text...

Russia and Georgia - Europe flaps its wings
The European Union is the only party qualified to act between Russia and Georgia, but it is compromised by its record over Kosovo, and is in serious need of a single authoritative voice.
12 August 2008 - Full text...

Russia and Ossetia - Poker game gone wrong
In three days, Europe has advanced to the threshold of war; but the chiefly responsible party, the United States, must surely have known what would happen if it continued to let its protégé, Georgia, believe it would back it to the hilt.
11 August 2008 - Full text...

Thirty-one Days - 01-31 July, 2008
Chronology and Internet guide to Russia/Eurasia-related events during July 2008
4 August 2008 - Full text...

The future of Abkhazia - A glimmer of hope
A faint ray of light has appeared over the Caucasus imbroglio thanks to American pressure on both Abkhazia and Georgia to sit down at a negotiating table without preconditions. The US move endorses a plan put forward by German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
29 July 2008 - Full text...

Russians and Karadzic - Smelling a rat
Russians, as a whole, had no special sympathy for Radovan Karadzic and his like, but his arrest has triggered a typical set of reactions.
24 July 2008 - Full text...

Russia's identity problem - From Chechnya to the Vertical of Power
A political columnist argues that although Vladimir Putin’s creation of a administrative ‘vertical of power’ may have improved the general level of government in Russia, it has not brought Russian citizens any closer to identifying themselves as a united civil nation. His article, in the journal of our informational partner, includes a povocative analysis of the existing situation in Chechnya.
21 July 2008 - Full text...

Secret Services' hidden hand - British foreign policy towards Russia
Britain is close to a dead end in its relations with Russia, and the British special services - MI-5(Security) and MI-6 (Foreign Intelligence) - are not making it easier for the country to get out of it.
17 July 2008 - Full text...

NATO and European Union - Seeds of a ‘European’ cold war
The fourth of July saw the opening of the negotiations on a renewal of the EU-Russia Partnership and Co-operation Agreement (PCA) defining relations between Brussels and Moscow. Insiders say the climate is ‘good’. But hope is clouded by the intrusive activity of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
13 July 2008 - Full text...

Thirty Days - 01- 30 June, 2008
Chronology and Internet guide to Russia /Eurasia-related events in the international press during June 2008
2 July 2008 - Full text...

The Russia-EU summit - A turn of the tide?
The Russia-EU summit on 27 June produced a positive result, most importantly with an EU concession permitting negotiations to start on a short framework agreement for co-operation, rather than letting talks become bogged down over a comprehensive document.
30 June 2008 - Full text...

Russia’s novel arms crisis - Meeting export orders
An ‘insider’ says that, after doubling the value of their exports in eight years, Russia’s arms makers are no longer able to take short-term orders and require urgent investment in order to increase capacity and quality.
29 June 2008 - Full text...