The legal processes surrounding the attempt by Belgrade to get former BH Presidency member Ejup Ganic extradited from London to Serbia to face war crimes charges rumble on. The latest hearing has ended. According to the Sarajevo media, judgement is expected on 27 July. Needless to say, media reports of […]
Democratist replies to my earlier posting: I have a number of points to make about the following statements you made in "International Election Monitoring: Keeping Democracy Honest?" "The problem is that observers necessarily observe the observable, and only a tiny proportion of that." What about LTOs and the Core Team? They are […]
The Week too looks at the spy story Winners and Losers. And cites this site as giving one of the Best Opinions on the issues concerned.
Democratist is someone who follows the goings-on across the former Soviet Union in some depth. Here he takes up William Hague’s recent speech on UK foreign policy, and makes an interesting point about how the UK invests in foreign policy outcomes in that complicated region: OSCE election observation is about the best […]
Who did better from the spy swap? Some say the Americans: “I don’t think there’s any doubt — I think the U.S. won,” NBC National Security Producer Robert Windrem said Friday. He said the four freed by the Russians were coming "with real information and there’s no evidence the guys […]
Is the US/Russian likely spy swap a good idea? Ron Radosh thinks not: Both the Putin government and the Obama administration, however, are signing on to this charade. The Russians get back their would-be sleeper agents, while the United States avoids an embarrassing trial that might turn U.S. public opinion […]
Are we about to see a major ‘spy swap’? "Why waste time on all those tedious legal processes and prisons? We get our spies back, and so do you." Hard for me at least to see why the Russians would want to do this unless the illegals/sleepers rounded up in […]
My recent observations on the arrest of the network of Russian sleeper/illegal spies in the USA have been noticed and commended by Boris Volodarsky: Finally, out of a wall of stupid and totally unqualified media reports, including two articles in The Sunday Times (July 4, 2010) not to mention the […]
It is wearying being peppered with facile media so-called analysis of the Russian spy story featuring this sort of line: Huh? What’s all the fuss about? What’s there to spy on in the places these amateur people were living in? Did the Kremlin really want to infiltrate the PTA? Typical […]
A Polish reader Ludwik Kowalski now long established in the USA has sent in a link to this unusual free online memoir, namely extracts from his diaries which he wrote while growing up in the USSR then Stalinist Poland: This is my “book of life.” It is based on what I […]
