Inside Krasnodar | 2008

You can imagine my surprise today when, while I was scanning through my RSS subscriptions in my Google Reader, I saw that La Russophobe had written an “Editorial” lambasting me and my opinions on Russia. I’m proud to say that I am now on the list of La Russophobe’s most hated Russophiles. What an honor.
For […]

I just received another email from a friend of mine who works at a big Western NGO. My friend is quite bitter and jaded regarding Putin, in particular, and Russia, in general. Maybe it was the years he was stationed in the Balkans? I’m not sure. While I have given-up trying to change such Rossophobic […]

As Bush and Putin meet one last time in Sochi, I wanted to share with you an excellent article from the Times Online that very nicely offers the Russian’s viewpoint to NATO over these past 8 years under Bush.
NATO continues to push eastward but says to Russia not to worry. It’s my own personal opinion […]

Congratulations to Mr. Putin and to the country of Russia for being named “The Man of the Year.” While Time is correct to recognize the growing influence and importance of Russia in today’s world, it still fell back on old cliches and tired stereotypes in its cover story. Fortunately, Time magazine also printed the full […]

I got an email from a friend, and classmate of mine at Phillips Exeter Academy, yesterday, basically asking how I could find the article by Justin Raimondo “refreshing?”
He wrote,
“So if Russians don’t really want freedom, they prefer dictatorship which makes them unique in the entire world.
I bet without oil and gas revenue all […]

There was an article today in the Pittsburg Post Gazette about the NHL and the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the NHL, is quoted as making some pretty tough statements about whether or not the NHL players would be allowed to participate despite already having played in the past 3 Olympics […]

Thanks to Colleen Winthrop for the heads-up on this refreshing take on the current state of relations between the US and Russia.
Here’s the link to the article by Justin Raimondo
Russians cast their votes in parliamentary elections on Sunday, with an overwhelming victory widely expected for Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party – and yet we […]

Great article by Mark Almond in today IHT.

International Herald Tribune
Unrecognized States
By Mark Almond
Thursday, December 6, 2007

LONDON:
The recent gathering at Annapolis of most sides in the world’s most intractable political dispute has focused attention on the Middle East, but another set of bitter geopolitical problems is rapidly elbowing its way into the international limelight - unrecognized […]

Here’s a short article in Interfax about the stand-off between US and Russian officials. Many of you in the US don’t always get the other side of these “arguments” so I thought you might find this interesting and quite logical. Plus, Krasnodar Krai has been discussed as playing a role in the proposed cooperation on […]

There is now so much bullshit written about Russia in the Western press (see sidebar for list of these anti-Russian writers) those of us who actually have a clue about the real situation in Russia have simply thrown-up our hands and said, “What evaaah!”
So, thank God for the eXile website. The eXile not only has […]