Russian politicians and analysts worked overtime this week trying to create a cloud of doubt around the Aug. 21 chemical attack in Damascus. On Friday, the White House report drew on extensive intelligence information to present this picture: Syrian forces carried out chemical weapons attacks on sleeping Damascus suburbs, killing 1,429 civilians, including 426 children. […]
Kremlin Forgets: One Century Ago Russian Soldiers Were Top Victims of Poison Gas
Posted August 31st, 2013 at 10:02 pm (UTC+0)
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Snowden’s Kremlin Connection
Posted August 26th, 2013 at 7:23 pm (UTC+0)
Friday, June 21, was the hottest day of the year in Hong Kong – a sweltering 34 degrees. But it was also a hot day for Edward Snowden, the leaker of American secrets hiding out in China’s Special Administrative Region. In Washington on that day, U.S. federal prosecutors made public allegations of unauthorized communication of […]
Georgia and Russia: Rekindling an Old Love Affair?
Posted August 15th, 2013 at 4:56 pm (UTC+0)
When I first visited Georgia, on a reporting trip, in September 1991, I arrived in Tbilisi armed with four years of college Russian — and gung ho to use it! To my dismay, the independence-minded residents of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic had spray painted out all public signs in Russian and were jamming all […]
Russia’s Choice: Power Balancer or China’s Canada?
Posted August 10th, 2013 at 7:04 pm (UTC+0)
The reset between the Kremlin and the White House is dead. Now, the question in Moscow is: what will replace it? With the cancellation of President Obama’s visit here next month, it is unlikely that the president of the United States will devote much of his second term to dealing with President Putin. The White […]
