You don’t hear much from me these days for reasons attentive readers know. But I do pay to keep my site alive and I re-read things from time to time.
Usually pretty gloomily: if only my former masters had listened to me (and plenty of others – I can name three at least in Ottawa right now) we wouldn’t be as far up Shit’s Creek without a paddle as we are now. (But, in a year, we’ll be farther up yet.)
Ah well, old guys do burble on. Sometimes I feel like this guy.
But here’s one from ten years ago. Any of you remember when Georgia was the exemplar of how nasty Russia was? But who’s heard of Georgia these days? And where is that shining knight of democracy Saakashvili now?
Russia Observer 