A Russian Mig-29 taking off at the airbase in Gudauta shot down a Georgian unmanned aircraft and flew to the Russian territory. Georgians spread the recorded video of the incident. Russia began to deny immediately any involvement, saying...

President Putin in person has interfered for the first time in the situation about Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He has ordered that the Russian government offer measures for giving substantial aid to the populations of the unrecognized...

Russian political reality is made in the way where any public complaints are considered by Putin to be a sign of disloyalty. It’s not only useless but even harmful to complaint about what the authority does. When you just suffer because of...

The situation about sudden death of Badri Patarkatsishvili, who meddled in a hopeless struggle against Georgian authorities, is lent a continuation looking like John Gresham’s thrillers. The oligarch’s cousin, Josef Kay, announced himself...

The entrance to the Gymry tunnel being blocked by OMON unit from Krasnodar city, my colleague and I turned out to be the first journalists allowed into the settlement three months after the counter-terrorist operation was started there. My...

President Medvedev’s election was held 2 March. No one wondered seriously if Medvedev would win. Discussed was the question if Medvedev would take away the power from Putin. Some say that he will, some say that he won’t. To my mind, the...