FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2006
Is Russia again looking to build an empire?
By Serge Schmemann (The New York Times)
Rulers and Victims. The Russians in the Soviet Union. By Geoffrey Hosking. 484 pages. $35. The Belknap Press/ Harvard University Press.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2006
Abkhazia: A promising pariah on the Black Sea
Viktor Erofeyev (International Herald Tribune)
If Abkhazia regards itself as a historically independent state, why put sticks in its wheels?

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2006
'Clash of civilizations': Who's to blame?
(International Herald Tribune)
In 12 countries, Muslim and non-Muslims describe each other in blunt terms.