TOL Talk: Author Jonathan Brent on plumbing the Soviet archives, negotiating the new Russia, and encountering the real Josef Stalin.

The Abkhaz political establishment has its opponents, but they hardly comprise an opposition.
In words and pictures, Georgian students express their feelings about Russia and the 2008 war. A TOL/Liberali multimedia production.

In the fourth of a series of video reports, Georgians debate whether the statue of Josef Stalin in his birthplace of Gori should stay in the city center or be moved to a museum. A TOL/Liberali multimedia project.
Many Kazakhs fear the new Russian-led customs union will be a very unequal partnership.

Although deeply flawed, Medvedev’s strategy for dragging Russia into the 21st century is not to be dismissed out of hand.
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