In his annual state of the nation address last week, President Vladimir Putin made clear that he selects his tools of governance from the same shed as his Soviet predecessors once did.

Anatol Lyabedzka, leader of the United Civic Party, an opposition party in Belarus, will attend The Axis of Evil: Belarus--The Missing Link conference being organized by the New Atlantic Initiative (NAI) at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on Thursday, November 14, 2002.

The reception in Moscow to U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul during his first few months on the job has been unusual, if not downright hostile, a lot more Cold War than Russian Reset.

In the ten days that have passed since Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB agent, died of radiation poisoning in London, we have learned a lot about his death--haven't we?

The author protests the abuse of Anatol Lyabedzka, a leading advocate for democracy in Belarus, by the regime of Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko.

The former KGB man has never believed in democracy, and the West should stop pretending it does not matter.

Michael Ledeen--and James Jesus Angleton--on a lesser-read book by a former CIA staff member: Spy Wars by Tennent "Pete" Bagley.