Oleksandr Potiekhin, Boudewijn Van Eenennaam, Daniel Fried, Radek Sikorski, Martin Palous, Boguslaw Winid ...

Not only is Egypt itself a long way from becoming a real democracy, but the differences between the Land of the Pharaohs and the Middle Kingdom are so vast as to make any meaningful analysis useless.

Barack Obama is repeating the same error with Dmitry Medvedev that George W. Bush made with Vladimir Putin by trusting that a personal relationship with a Russian leader is a sufficient foundation for U.S.-Russia relations.

The question is whether the West is prepared to behave like the West, to speak with one voice, and to create a common transatlantic policy.

The interests of Russia's industrial leaders may not always coincide with society's, but by winning the right to promote those interests, the oligarchs can advance Russian democracy.

A drama of considerable importance to Western interests is playing out between Russia and the former republics of the Soviet Union that may determine whether these newly-independent countries survive as sovereign states oriented toward democracy and freedom or are pressured into renewed Russian suzerainty.

Following the 2004 Orange Revolution, Ukraine now faces another political crisis.

Circumstances in Russia point to the gradual erosion of legitimacy and political institutions--or a sudden collapse of the regime, like the recent Egyptian antiauthoritarian revolt.