September 10, 2008
Thursday night John McCain informed Americans that Russia appeared to be "reassembling the Russian Empire." Resolved to poke the old bear in the eye, CNN reports that today the UShas backed Ukraine's bid for NATO membership a day after similarly supporting Georgia, in a move which may further stok...
go to article »September 4, 2008
Sean's Russia Blog wrote on Aug. 31 that “for some, Putin’s Republican affinities are all too clear: Putin is a [closet neocon] and the his real intent of his [interview with CNN] was to cast [a veiled vote for John McCain]. There are 243 comments to this post now. ...
go to article »September 1, 2008
LJ user olegpanfilov2 links (RUS) to a newspaper story (ENG) on Michael Lee White, a China-based U.S. citizen whose passport was allegedly stolen “during a flight from Moscow to New York” in Dec. 2005. Last week, “a Russian general […] displayed a blown-up photo” of the...
go to article »August 30, 2008
Is the White House willing to trade New York City for South Ossetia? It would seem so. AP reports: A key civil nuclear agreement between Russia and the U.S. looks likely to be shelved until next year at the earliest amid mounting tensions over the fate of Georgia's breakaway republics.The nuclear ...
go to article »August 28, 2008
Barack Obama's candidate for Vice President Sen. Joe Biden made the Russian invasion of Georgia a heavy focus of the foreign policy piece of his speech to the Democratic National Convention last night. It would have been hard to imagine just a few months ago that the word "Russia" would barely even ...
go to article »August 27, 2008
The conventional wisdom has it that this month's eruption of violence between Russia and Georgia played squarely into the hands of John McCain. With pundits and hacks fulminating about a return to the Cold War, McCain has ratcheted up the rhetoric, supposedly sending a muscular to the Kremlin. ...
go to article »August 26, 2008
Nazarian says that the real winner in the war between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia might be U.S. presidential candidate John McCain. The blogger also believes a new Cold War is in the making. ...
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After his initial choice for campaign song, Abba’s Dancing Queen, was objected to by the republican-supporting group Americans United Against Swedes And Gays, John McCain seized on current affairs and snagged Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind” before democratic rival Obama get’s to it, repo...
go to article »August 24, 2008
Biden on Syria: Qifa Nabki rounded up Biden quotes on Syria and the region: “There are plenty of reasons to mistrust Assad, but there could be real benefits to hard-headed diplomacy. Syria is the common denominator of many problems - in Lebanon , the Palestinian territories, and to a lesser ext...
go to article »August 22, 2008
Vadim Nikitin of the Foreign Policy Association Russia blog, analyzes the parallel coverage of the South Ossetia conflict by US and Russian media, saying “The US media covered the Russian invasion of Georgia and its airstrikes on Gori, while the Russian media covered the Georgian invasion of S...
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