Colonel Kvachkov, a former intelligence service officer was accused of attempting on Anatoly Chubais, the man who was responsible for notorious privatization in Russia at Yeltsin times and who is the head of RAO EES at the moment. Having...

Batumi I’m taking a walk along the Batumi embankment with Adzharian Prime Minister Levan Varshalomidze. The prime minister points out and tells ”This is the building of the prosecutor’s office. We are selling it. And this used to be...

This spring is marked with a number of foreign policy initiatives by Russia. Moscow mayor Luzhkov has stated that Sevastopol is a Russian territory. In the city of Gorno-Altaisk a street will be named after an Estonian communist leader of...

Two things burst upon the eye when looking at the reshuffling in the government and President’s Administration. First, no one disappeared anywhere, and the outgoing people left for business at least. The new bureaucratic establishment has...

A few days ago a “Zvezda” TV station broke “sensational” news saying that Georgia would intrude into Abkhazia on the 9th May night. The situation reminds very much of the one when in April last year the Russian intelligence service...

«Who is Mr. Putin?» Before 2003, it was a man making quite a liberal economic policy; he really could have created a great Russia. And he even could have taken Gazprom to become his own property. No one would have made a mess about that....