Kissie - If you want me to reply in a polite fashion,please, don't use Pravda-style editing of my postings - it's ridiculous, since anybody ...

First of all, Barkashov, not Barshakov. "Barkash" is a guy who operates a boat of kind, "barka". Secondly - I doubt it very much. Although richly repr...

In the end, we can recognize the Chechen war for what it is, at least in some crucial aspect: a colonial war in a crumbling empire. This definition ...

All the discussions of the IMF loans seem to be based on the premise that the loans are actually good for the economnies of the receiver countries, un...

The parallels between Kosovo and Chechnya are relevant only from one angle: "Do they [NATO members] have a right to criticize Russian conduct in Chech...