January 30, 2018
The Winter Olympics are always a good venue for showing national pride. Some even view the Games as a microcosm of the world and what could be: peace among nations where each […]
September 20, 2017
Last weekend, as Moscow celebrated its 870th anniversary, a futuristic $245 million Zaryadye Park was inaugurated in the heart of the capital — a generous present from Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to his citizens. The […]
August 8, 2017
Georgia. You might know very little or even nothing about this country located in the caucasus region, but now’s your time to know more about it, and the reason why Georgians always […]
May 9, 2017
We often talk about blow-back: when a military adventurism goes sour because of foreign retaliation. But we never apply it in the other direction: foreign governments facing consequences for their adventurism. […]
March 29, 2017
The first generation to grow up under Putin seems to oppose his politics, as Sunday’s protests across the country show. And it was not all about Navalny and Medvedev. Next year, Russia […]
March 8, 2017
For almost three years now, Ukraine has been at war with the Russian Federation. After the successful annexation of Crimea, Russia has also intervened militarily in the Donbas region, where the war […]
February 24, 2017
Note: Liberal in this article refers to broadly classically liberal values. I am not already against the next war. There is a good chance I will be, but there are circumstances where […]