Wayne-allensworth

Wayne Allensworth is a corresponding editor to Chronicles. An expert on foreign affairs, he is the author of The Russian Question (Rowan & Littlefield).
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Articles and Posts by Wayne-allensworth:

• Ray Bradbury, R.I.P.(3)

  Bradbury never lost his sense of wonder, and it showed in every story, whether set in Green Town or along the canals of Mars.

• Child Abuse, the State, and the Russian Family(3)

  It was another episode in a series of shocking crimes against children. Little Sasha, just three years old, was pulled from the frigid waters of the Pekhorka River in January 2009. He was bound to a car battery with adhesive tape, his body battered and bearing the marks of cigarette burns. It was the second death of an adopted child in the Grechushkin family: The December before Sasha’s body was discovered, their one-year-old’s death had aroused suspicions. The third child was placed in an orphanage, and the adoptive parents were arrested.

• The State of the Game: The U.S., Russia, and the South Ossetian Conflict(43)

  As of Saturday, 16 August, both the Russian and Georgian sides of the conflict over the “unrecognized republics” of South Ossetia and Abkhazia had signed a six-point cease-fire agreement stipulating that Georgian forces must move back to their bases, while Russian troops are supposed to draw back to pre-conflict positions. The agreement does, however, leave the Russians some room to take additional “security measures” and reports continue to come in of Russian troops moving closer to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. Russian forces have been destroying Georgian military installations and equipment as well.

• Giving Up Saddam: Russia and “Regime Change” in Iraq(0)

  The War on Terror and the Bush administration’s impending war on Iraq gave Moscow a chance to use its relationship with Baghdad to try to secure Russian influence there after the fall of Hussein and to reestablish itself as a force in the region.