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Today, the first more comprehensive analysis of the Russo-Georgian war in August 2008 was published, less than a month after hostilities end...

Has Putin - Time Magazine Man of the Year 2007 - been dethroned? Has virile Volodya finally lost his powerful sex appeal and magic with the...

What have we learnt from the war in Georgia? That is the question addressed in one of the first more comprehensive reports of the recent war...

"The West must be bolder in its response to a newly assertive Russia." This is the proposition made for the upcoming The Economis...

Whoever wants to follow the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia may find up-to-date coverage on Global Voices Onl...

Russia is a wondrous country. To this most Russians themselves as well as foreigners would agree. Still, as the new seven wonders of the wor...

What makes a candidate stand for an election that he knows he cannot win, and in the process is destined to drift to the verge of bankruptcy...

A Ukraine eternally condemned to be split between east and west is the image that persistently lingers on the retina of imagery as historica...

In recent years, sovereign democracy has become a key ideological tenet in Russian politics and society. As the ideology for the party in po...

This weekend past saw the first anniversary of the Estonian Bronze Soldier crisis - over the removal of a soviet WW II monument from central...