Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has fled the nation’s capital, taking refuge in Crimea, a region where politicians increasingly call for annexation by Russia. Separately, two leading Russian politicians met with hundreds of politicians from Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine. At the meeting, one speaker called for “self-defense units” to block revolutionaries from Kyiv if they try to […]
Will Russia’s Putin Try To Split Crimea from Ukraine?
Posted February 22nd, 2014 at 6:38 pm (UTC+0)
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Potemkin Olympics or Palm Tree Olympics?
Posted February 12th, 2014 at 7:48 pm (UTC+0)
In Sochi today, the most carefully watched page is not the Olympic medals count. It is the weather forecast. Down here on the Black Sea coast, daytime highs are nudging 20C. People are peeling off jackets and putting on sunglasses. One can only wonder why Russia chose to host the Winter Olympics in a city […]
The Olympics of Control — 2014 or 1984?
Posted February 7th, 2014 at 9:39 pm (UTC+0)
Sochi may be sunny and the skies bright blue, but I feel as if the Olympics are in 1984. I walked into the Olympic Village train station and was confronted by the longest row of x-ray machines I have seen in my life. There were more x-ray machines and more gray uniformed security guards at […]
