Eduard Shevardnadze dies at the Age of 86


Eduard Shevardnadze is normally given credit for having helped end the cold war along with his boss, Mikhail Gorbachev. As for his years on the job, they vacillated between opposites. He acted...

7 Reasons That Russia Is Not The Soviet Union


National Review published a rather overheated piece the other day that contained an entertaining line: “Russia has become the Soviet Union with a better suit”. The idea that Russia is fundamentally...