Journalists love superlatives, and Russia’s southernmost republic, Dagestan, obliges. Of Russia’s 83 regions, Dagestan last year recorded the highest level of political violence — 53 bombings and 405 dead. Last year, Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent six months in Dagestan. Last month, world attention swiveled to Dagestan when Tsarnaev emerged as the lead suspect in the Boston […]
Dagestan: Russia’s Wild But Beguiling Southern Frontier
Posted May 22nd, 2013 at 10:36 pm (UTC+0)
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Russia Promotes Safe Olympics, Downplays Caucasus Link
Posted May 13th, 2013 at 6:22 pm (UTC+0)
Why was British Prime Minister David Cameron helicoptering around the Caucasus Mountains recently with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Ostensibly Putin, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics, was repaying Cameron a favor. Last summer, when Putin was cheering on Russian judo athletes at the London Summer Olympics, the British leader and Olympics host, stopped by for […]
Behind Putin’s Smile for Kerry
Posted May 8th, 2013 at 4:07 pm (UTC+0)
When Vladimir Putin smiles, take notice. A Russian friend once commented to me that one thing she like about her president is that he does not smile in public. On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin spent much of the day displaying on TV the thin-lipped sneer he adopts when playing the Good Czar berating the Bad Boyars. […]
