DUSHANBE, Tajikistan –  Private Pavel Mikheyev will never know what hit him. Walking home throughthe town of Kurgan-Tyube, in Tajikistan, last week, the Russian soldier was caught in [...]

On the other side of the electrified barbed-wire fence is a mine field, a couple of hundred yards of brush, the Pyanj river, and Afghanistan. All along the 620-mile border, Russian soldiers peer nervously through binoculars and night scopes, from observation towers, out of trenches, and from behind artillery equipment.

JIKHASKARI, Georgia –  By all accounts, Georgia’s first democratically-elected post-Soviet president is dead and buried near the west Georgian village of Jikhaskari.
But Zviad Gamsakhurdia isn’t about to let a little [...]