A while back, I interviewed the most enigmatic diplomat in the world: Carl Bildt. Mr.…
Tag: soviet union
New Fears in Chernobyl
A series of strange events inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has the Ukrainian government making…
Post-Soviet Frozen Conflicts and Quasi-States
Now that the newly elected rebel leaders of the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples’ Republics…
Shevardnadze, Revisited
The recent passing of former Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze, the man who helped end the…
Life and Death in Five Former Secret Soviet Cities
The Soviet Union used to operate over 100 secret cities, stretching across Eurasia from Estonia…