By Tobin Auber The St. Petersburg Times Published: July 27, 2011 (Issue # 1667)   In the interests of full disclosure, I should immediately note that I used to work with the author of this book. Over a decade ago, we wrote up St. Petersburg nightlife together for Pulse, a local lifestyle magazine. He has [...]

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 8 Issue: 142 July 25, 2011 02:04 PM By: Valery Dzutsev On July 12, the leader of the German Green party Cem Oezdemir resigned from the board of trustees of Germany’s Quadriga fund. Oezdemir was one of the first public figures to protest Quadriga’s plan to give an award to [...]

Sufian Zhemukhov is a Research Associate at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University (USA). The disintegration of the mighty Soviet empire at the end of the twentieth century created a geopolitical vacuum, unknown in the Eurasian space since the disintegration of the Golden Horde in the fifteenth century. Today, [...]

By Thameen Kheetan AMMAN – Jordanians of Circassian origin will organise a sit-in outside the Russian embassy in Amman on Saturday to protest against the selection of Sochi as the 2014 Winter Olympics venue. “We declare our complete rejection to holding the 2014 Winter Olympics on the remains of our grandparents and the skulls of [...]