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Hayes' latest writings include a reflection on the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in the Utne Magazine
and a retrospective of Gorbachev's legacy published in The Moscow Times.  Over the past year, he has published
commentaries for several newspapers on Russian President Putin's tactics in Chechnya, his interference in the Fall
2004 presidential election in Ukraine and the charade of his re-election in March to a second presidential Term.

Waiting for a Funeral in Srebrenica

After this visit with her, I stop at a cafe in Srebrenica.  A few minutes later...

 

Gorby Hits the Twin Cities at the End of an  Era

The 19th-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol warned us that...

 

Death in Chechnya serves Putin's ends

With the killing of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov...

 

Putin Plays Politics in Ukraine

Putin meddles in Ukrainian election to keep in place a corrupted democracy...

 

 

Boris Yeltsin Russia Did It Yeltsin's Way

Boris Yeltsin's final legacy was not to lay the foundations for democracy...

 

Yeltsin Then and Now

Five years ago, in the summer of 1991, Boris Yeltsin could not be stopped in any fair election...

 

Little is known about Mr Putin's KGB career Russia's Brief Experiment With Democracy And The New Autocracy Under President Vladimir Putin

The charade of Putin's re-election and Putin's attempt to manipulate the Ukrainian elections.

 

Ten Years After: Reflections of a Recovering Sovietologist

Something was lost when the Soviet Union went south over ten years ago.

 

Belgrade Has Much Of The Politics Of Milosovic Without Milosovic

Much of old regime evident in post-Milosevic Yugoslavia.

Photos from Belgrade

Not So Ancient A Grudge

A reflection as an historian and a witness on the misuse of history and the moral responsibility for the war in the ex-Yugoslavia.

 

 

   
The Ark - Durban, South Africa

Aids Rushes In Where Apartheid No Longer

As the AIDS Pandemic spreads across South Africa, it threatens to undermine the post-apartheid dream of a "new rainbow nation".