The Courage Of Individuals Is The Currency Of Our Freedom

I saw Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya speak at the Sydney Writers' Festival in 2006. She was direct and eloquent, and five months later, she was assassinated.

World Barracks For Barack

MANY politicians are more popular outside their own countries than at home. Mikhail Gorbachev is still lauded in the West as the architect of perestroika, the bringer of glasnost, the man who peacefully ended the Cold War. In Russia he was regarded as the man who spoke bad Russian who lost the empire.