Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category

December 22nd, 2011

Mark Kleiman and I go Bloggingheads on drugs and HIV in the Russian Federation, poppy eradication in Afghanistan, Mexican drug violence, dealing with drug users and drug sellers in United States.

November 15th, 2011

And yeah, maybe “czar” isn’t the best nomenclature here….

April 1st, 2011

Is so.

October 2nd, 2010

Ilya Repin´s painting of Volga boatmen is not one of serfs.

January 12th, 2010

Whatever Manzi thinks, Europe does not stop at the Urals,.

March 4th, 2009

Could it have been to help Medvedev in his power struggle with Putin? If so, I approve.

December 9th, 2008

The Bronze Horseman and the Summum case.

September 29th, 2008

Ahh, the Russian press. Making the Washington Times look nonpartisan since 2000. Kommersant, in an item about the first presidential debate headlined “Obama Foresees New President for Georgia,” writes At the same time, Obama called Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili a weak figure politically and forecasted that Georgia would have a new president because of it. [...]

September 2nd, 2008

Has Russia a reversion right to Alaska?

May 1st, 2008

The standoff in Abkhazia continues, and the rhetoric escalates. Whether arms and men are also building up, I couldn’t tell you, but you can find someone to posit whatever you want to be true. Russia started this latest dustup in reaction to NATO’s assuring Georgia of an offer of membership…some day. (By the Caucasian version [...]