Georgia/Russia: Saakashvili’s candidate
The president of Georgia speaks at a rally in Tbilisi, flanked by the presidents of Poland and Ukraine (the three Baltic...
Paul Wells
Maclean’s senior writer Paul Wells writes about politics across Canada and abroad. Except sometimes he ignores politics and writes about music or something else.
Georgia/Russia: Tom Friedman can’t be right about everything
I ate in the Tbilisi McDonald’s in December, so never mind this little gem : "No two countries that both had a McDonald’s [have]...
Georgia/Russia: Ante up, he said
Slate ’s Fred Kaplan wonders why the hawks are so half-hawkish:
Georgia/Russia: The neighbours will talk
The presidents of Poland and the Baltic states — Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia — release a joint statement on the Russian...
Georgia/Russia: Gori and Senaki by bomblight
(Source: BBC) Russian troops have now moved far inland into Georgia from both South Ossetia and Abkhazia, launching attacks on the...
Georgia/Russia: Escalate!!!
No, that’s not my advice, it’s William Kristol ’s in the New York Times : Emphasis mine, although I’m not sure how you could read...
Sound construction
The new issue of Canadian Architect magazine has a dynamite article about a jewel I’ve been dying to visit since it (re-) opened...
Georgia/ Russia: McCain/ Obama
I just wanted to nod briefly at the way the South Ossetia unpleasantness is playing out in the U.S. presidential election: as a...
Home news: Beijing edition
A quick reminder that two of our finest writers, Jonathan Gatehouse and Ken MacQueen, are blogging from Beijing during the current...
Georgia/ Russia: Blame Merkel?
Edward Lucas, The Economist’s Central and Eastern European specialist, says the current unpleasantness in South Ossetia was made...