Ghulf Genes

I simply must note here an event reported in the New York Times this morning. Two men stood in line somewhere in southern Russia waiting t...

A story in the New York Times reports on rifts appearing in the coalition opposing my favorite candidate, Vladimir Putin. Liberals look a...

I note that opportunist Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov is suddenly running for the presidency of Russia. Who is this Prokhorov? Why, he is t...

I refer to an eight-page insert in the New York Times today. It’s actually a newspaper called Russia , with the secondary name of Beyond the...

I got to musing about the Ottomans yesterday—but in a modern context. We were discussing recent events in Iraq—and the ethnic patchwork that...