Gillian Dymond Audio Version New Feature! When I arrived in Shanghai for a few weeks at the end of 1989, it was a heady time. Over the previous months...

The ever-grotesque situation in Ukraine took another nose dive into farce today as Mikhail Saakashvili, ex-president of Georgia and governor of Odessa, climbed to the roof of his eight...

Still from the video below, showing a far-right protester pepper-spraying the police. Dozens of far-right activists clashed with police outside the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on Sunday,...

by Systematic Mikhail Saakashvili was appointed governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region on May 30. (Photo: TASS) TeleSUR reports: Georgia’s former President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Facebook the United States...

by Eric Zuesse A group of residents in the region of Odessa, one of Ukraine’s largest cities, is trying to break away from the Ukrainian government that was formed...