Afghanistan’s election: a first verdict, Martine van Bijlert Alex Strick van Linschoten
Martine van Bijlert: How much to believe?
The foreign journalists who arrived to report on the Afghan elections are leaving, and the official observers are formulating their agreed conclusions (some irregularities, problems with the voter...
Zugdidi: Will I ever go back? , Zygmunt Dzieciolowski
I crossed from Abkhazia into Georgia to reach the town of Zugdidi, and my thoughts inevitably turned to my mother. She had never visited Georgia, but I saw that the people there had faced exactly the same dilemmas that she faced back in 1939: should...
Gerald Cohen (1941-2009), Marshall Berman
Alas, I have not been able to write a coherent essay on my dear friend Jerry Cohen. But I can offer some interesting notes. Most are from the first years of our friendship, in Oxford nearly half a century ago. Some are from the last years of his...
Dhaka rises, bungalows fall, Delwar Hussain
House 17A on Road 6 in the Banani district of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, is easy to locate. Though the nameplate on the wall is concealed behind the protective tendrils of a bright fuchsia-coloured bougainvillea plant, even the most uncertain...
Disaster at Sayano-Shushensky power station, Yegor Zadereyev
Today is Wednesday. Two days ago, on Monday morning, there was one of the biggest man-made disasters in the short history of post-Soviet Russia. Yes,yes! The catastrophe happened in the morning. The whole country doesn't live on Moscow...
US, Brazil, Chile: military ghosts, Arthur Ituassu
A set of documents published by George Washington University's National Security Archive on 16 August 2009 contains fresh and vivid evidence of United States actions and attitudes towards Latin America in the early 1970s. The release of this...
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