Windows to Russia

What you see above is a cruise missile in action. They have been hitting the capital of Libya with these… The coalition is perfect and kills no civilians… However, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has dismissed assertions by the Libyan government that coalition strikes have killed nearly 200 civilians. In a taped interview with AmericanContinue reading Libya: The coalition is perfect and kills no civilians…

Anna Chapman, the “sultry Russian secret agent” who hit the headlines last year after being exposed as a deep-cover operative in the United States, says she bears no ill will towards the man who betrayed her. And why should she? Since being freed as part of a dramatic spy swap deal in Vienna in JulyContinue reading Anna Chapman: Agent provocateur

Yuri Tatarchuk has a disconcerting way of demonstrating Chernobyl’s grim radioactive legacy. An official guide at the wrecked nuclear power plant, he waves his radiation counter at a group of abandoned Soviet army vehicles that were used in the battle to clean up the contamination created by the reactor explosion in 1986. “Some of theseContinue reading Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape