Image by government.ru “Kyrgyz election officials say preliminary results from Kyrgyzstan’s presidential vote indicate that Sooronbai Jeenbekov, a political ally of incumbent President Almazbek Atambaev, has won more than 54 percent of the vote, appearing to negate the need for a second-round runoff,” reported RFERL. Eleven candidates were in the…
Kyrgyz Voters About To Do Something Unheard Of Tomorrow.
It seems the spectacle of the U.S. election and alleged ‘Russian meddling’ has gone viral. Today, Kyrgyzstan made a formal complaint to the Kazakh ambassador alleging ‘interference’ in the upcoming Kyrgyz October election. The offense was a meeting between Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and opposition candidate Omurbek Babanov. “In an…
Marina Tsvetaeva was, with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam and Boris Pasternak, one of the four major Russian poets of the 20th century. Tsvetaeva was born in 1892, the daughter of a gifted amateur pianist and the founder of what is today the Pushkin Museum. She began writing poetry at the…
American policy in Eastern Europe suffers from three major problems: historical myopia, historical revisionism, and cultural imperialism. In a region of the world where the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman Empires are still as present in people’s minds as they were on the threshold of the First World War, America’s policies…
Image by Teekkari The Latvian Foreign Ministry recently reported that the ambassadors from the Baltic countries to France have sent a letter to the French newspaper, Le Monde, to stop calling the three countries ‘former Soviet republics’ as they recently published in a map of the region. Baltics Say Increased…
A massive harvest is underway in Russia for wheat and other grains. In fact, the possibly record production is so huge, current infrastructure cannot keep up and may slow exports, simply from lack of ability to get the grain to ships. Ports and railways are bursting with product; there is…
Image by Aris Katsaris Russia settled the last outstanding debt of the Soviet Union with a $152 million payment to Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday. Kazakhstan Plans Big Changes Away From Its Soviet Past, Mapping Out A New Path For Central Asia “The debt to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the amount of…
Putin Says Collapse Of USSR Had Greatest Impact On Him.
Image by The All-Nite Images In the aftermath of the Manchester and London terror acts committed (self-admittedly) by radical Muslims who had pledged allegiance to ISIS, various branches of the British Police issued, matter-of-factly, statements over Twitter that warned law-abiding innocent citizens that if they express opinions that are deemed…