OttawaGeorgia/Russia: Saakashvili’s candidateThe president of Georgia speaks at a rally in Tbilisi, flanked by the presidents of Poland and Ukraine (the three Baltic...
UncategorizedGeorgia/Russia: Tom Friedman can’t be right about everythingI ate in the Tbilisi McDonald’s in December, so never mind this little gem : "No two countries that both had a McDonald’s [have]...
UncategorizedGeorgia/Russia: Ante up, he saidSlate ’s Fred Kaplan wonders why the hawks are so half-hawkish:
OttawaGeorgia/Russia: The neighbours will talkThe presidents of Poland and the Baltic states — Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia — release a joint statement on the Russian...
UncategorizedGeorgia/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...
UncategorizedGeorgia/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...
UncategorizedSound constructionThe new issue of Canadian Architect magazine has a dynamite article about a jewel I’ve been dying to visit since it (re-) opened...
UncategorizedGeorgia/ Russia: McCain/ ObamaI just wanted to nod briefly at the way the South Ossetia unpleasantness is playing out in the U.S. presidential election: as a...
UncategorizedHome news: Beijing editionA quick reminder that two of our finest writers, Jonathan Gatehouse and Ken MacQueen, are blogging from Beijing during the current...
OttawaGeorgia/ Russia: Blame Merkel?Edward Lucas, The Economist’s Central and Eastern European specialist, says the current unpleasantness in South Ossetia was made...