Tuesday, April 22, 2014

New comments and moderation policy adopted

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Dear friends, Thank you all for your inputs.  By general consensus, the new moderation and comments policy is now adopted.  I will post a ...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Personal announcement: New moderation policy plan adopted

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Dear friends, The following comments moderation policy has now been adopted: 1.  Comments must contribute to the interest of a thread, a...

Ukraine SITREP April 21, 1932 UTC/Zulu

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The situation in the Ukraine continues to be characterized by complete chaos and a gradual and steady strengthening of the resistance in the...

One more thing about the "Saker correspondents" project - USA correpondents

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Dear friends, I realized that I was missing on a good opportunity here to involve some correspondents from the USA. While I myself curre...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Update on the "Saker correspondents" idea

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Dear friends, A few days ago I posted an idea to create a network of "Saker correspondents".  Here is what I wrote: I think th...

Request for comments about my moderation policy

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Dear friends, I have decided to take the opportunity of a lull in my Sunday afternoon to seek your advice as to what to do about my commen...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Today is Holy Paskha - Christ is Risen!

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Χριστός ἀνέστη! Хрїстóсъ воскрéсе! المسيح قام! حقا قام!‎ 11th century fresco of the Resurrection, Chora Church , Constantinople To...
Friday, April 18, 2014

The thing which everybody seems to be missing

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Okay, I decided to squeeze in one more post before taking time off for Holy Paskha, this is well worth it. Some of you have asked about Ch...

Full text of the Geneva Statement of April 17, 2014 and a short commentary

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The Guardian published the full text of the Geneva Statement. This is what eight hours of negotiations produced: The Geneva meeting on t...

*Very* interesting reply of Putin during yesterday's Q&A

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Yesterday Putin had a four hour long Q&A on Russian TV .  I will not post it here, but one reply by Putin is really interesting.  See f...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Making sense of the latest Kerry Lavrov deal

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Ok, first the necessary caveats: 1) Kerry and Lavrov already had a deal on Syria, also made in Geneva, but then the USA reneged. 2) The E...

Lavrov press conference in Geneva after agreement with USA (with link to Kerry's press conference)

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Important:make sure to also listen to the press conference by John Kerry gave in another room (to signal that the US and Russia are real...