Michael Totten on the recent events in Ossetia

[cema]

Here.

Update. According to several comments here, some of the Russians cannot read http://www.michaeltotten.com at all: "access forbidden". If you reside in Russia, could you confirm if you can or cannot read it? Thanks.

Update. You can always read it like this: michaeltotten.

Update. A useful discussion here (with further links), in Russian; and here, in Russian.

Update. MT: I tried to get to the other side of the front line, so to speak, and was thrown back by the Russian military. I'll write about that in my next piece. -[August 28, 2008 8:57 AM] The Russians were actually pretty friendly about the whole thing, and they let me through a lot more checkpoints than I expected. -[August 28, 2008 10:48 AM] I would have interviewed those on the other side of the line, but the Russian military requires an unattainable Russian visa to visit even the parts of Georgia they control. -[August 30, 2008 9:18 AM]

Well, I am looking forward to his next article.

Comments

[mochalkina.livejournal.com]

I can.

Who is Michael Totten? (I mean, his insights do not seem too deep.)

[cema.livejournal.com]

He is a journalist, in a way. (He works as someone else, but I did not quite get as who.) He often goes to places like Iraq and Lebanon and blogs from there. His strength is not in "insights", we do not need yet another analyst, but in interviews and raw facts, represented with as little bias as possible. (He has a bias like we all do, but his output is straightforward.) I have been following him steadily for several years now. Not surprised he would go to Georgia now that it became a hot region.