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Jim Meyer's Borderlands: Category Archive for Russia and ex-USSR

Losing the Liberal Autocrat

Borderlands Week in Review

Islamic finance coming to Russia?

Putin-Medvedev 2012 election 'choice' video

Reactions to the Moscow Blast/Muslims in Russia

Some really cool color photographs from late imperial Russia

Viktor Tsoi, R.I.P.

Genocide and the north Caucasus: redux

On the Kurdish and Armenian Initiatives

"Falsifying" History in Russia

Rothbury, Moscow Threesome, Midnight Legislation in Turkey

Genocide and the Borderlands

Turkish Roundup: May 9-16

Borderlands Roundup: This Week in the News

Tensions Rising in Tbilisi

Gov't Claims Mutiny at Georgian Military Base, Roads into Tbilisi Reportedly Blocked

An Obama Hand in Turkish-Armenian Talks?

April 24-25: Two Days of Remembrance

Turk-Arm III: Opportunities and Risks in Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement

Turk-Arm II: A Legacy of Pain and the Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement

Turk-Arm I: Quiet Steps forward in Turkish-Armenian Relations

Georgia Photos/Mark Fidrych

Eurasia and Steve Kotkin's "Ab Imperio," Part deux

Eurasia and Steve Kotkin's "Ab Imperio," Part I

Azeri Referenda

Happy Women's Day/News from Turkey

Obama's Foreign Policy

Obama, Russia, and the Middle East

Shaimiev Lives

Trouble in Ukraine

Where is Shaimiev?

More on Shaimiev

More on Shaimiev

Trouble in Ukraine

Recent Events in the Caucasus and Russia's Mini-Republics

From Kazan

More Thoughts on South Ossetia

From Kazan

Beating the War Drums Again

South Ossetia and the Fate of the “Mini-Republics"

Russian Media Coverage of the Fighting in South Ossetia

A Loser's Bet

Novaia Volna

End of the Exile?

Victory Day