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10-11-2008 12:53 (Mark Almond for RIA Novosti) - At first sight the failure of Georgia's opposition last Friday to mobilise the kind of large crowd which had swarmed through Tbilisi's streets on 7th November last year was good news for President Mikheil Saakashvili.

On some aspects of Ukrainian nationalism

06-11-2008 16:22 (Mark Almond for RIA Novosti) - Four years ago, the Western media celebrated the victory of Viktor Yushchenko in the long-drawn out Ukrainian presidential elections as the dawn of a new age of prosperity and democracy in the country.

Russia versus Europe - the same old story

05-11-2008 10:51 (on the election of Barack Obama) John Laughland for RIA Novosti

Russia, Serbia and the Kosovo Problem

28-10-2008 17:27 (John Laughland for RIA Novosti)

Europe and Russia: losing momentum?

21-10-2008 09:49 (Orietta Moscatelli, head of the Italian Information Agency APCOM 'New Europe' project)

Ideology and politics

17-10-2008 14:50 (John Laughland, British historian and political scientist) - President Dmitri Medvedev's speech to the Evian political forum on 8 October has been greeted with near-total silence by the European commentariat. In it, he proposed the creation of a pan-European security structure to include the present Euro-Atlantic organisation, i.e. NATO.

From Munich to Kosovo

01-10-2008 16:14 (John Laughland) - The 70th anniversary of the Munich agreement, reached on 30th September 1938, opens what will doubtless now be many years of formal reminiscence about the Second World War.

Time for a gold rouble?

24-09-2008 16:29 (John Laughland for RIA Novosti) - There used to be a habit of framing old Tsarist bonds and putting them on the wall. Lenin's decision to renege on the Russian imperial debt meant that it became mere paper, interesting only as a historical relic.

Europe and Russia: beware EU divisions

08-09-2008 16:19 (Orietta Moscatelli, head of the Italian Information Agency APCOM 'New Europe' project)

How Russia Clobbered Georgia and Lost the War

27-08-2008 17:08 (Prof. Piotr Dutkiewicz for RIA Novosti) - Some critics have pointed to the conflict in Georgia as another example of botched Bush administration foreign policy, but in fact America's real strategy was brilliantly executed and it achieved exactly the intended outcome. Unfortunately it's not an outcome that brings nations together or makes the world a safer place.

Ballistic missile defence and European security

27-08-2008 16:16 (Margot Light for RIA Novosti) - The agreement concluded between the United States and Poland on August 20^th on the deployment of 10 interceptor missiles, part of America's planned Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system, was an inadvertent (and possibly unanticipated) result of the Russian-Georgian conflict.

Ties with Russia will help London challenge Beijing

25-08-2008 13:21 (Ken Livingstone for RIA Novosti) - Anyone attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, as I did, realised that the 2008 Games were about more than sport.

NATO – the paper alliance

25-08-2008 12:57 (John Laughland for RIA Novosti) - As the dust settles on the conflict in South Ossetia - and as it vanishes progressively from the headlines in the Western press - one thing has become overwhelmingly clear. It is that Georgia will now never join NATO and that the balance of power in the world has therefore shifted radically as a result of this little six-day war.

Kaczynski and Sarkozy: war and peace

19-08-2008 12:03 (Leszek Miller for RIA Novosti) - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili decided to become a hero on the Olympics opening day. To guarantee success, he drafted 100,000 reservists to fight a 70,000-strong republic.

Intellectual dishonesty and the culpability of all

14-08-2008 17:50 (by James Nixey for RIA Novosti)

Is Tskhinvali the centre of the world?

07-08-2008 19:12

(John Laughland, Director of Studies at the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in Paris, for RIA Novosti)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: political importance and literary genius

06-08-2008 12:18 Michael Scammell, for RIA Novosti.

Tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn

05-08-2008 16:38 D.M.Thomas, British writer and poet, for RIA Novosti

Obama in Berlin: A post-holiday hangover

25-07-2008 15:53 MOSCOW. (Simon Koschut, expert on the United States and Trans-Atlantic relations at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin, for RIA Novosti). -