Michael Averko
Michael Averko is a New York based independent foreign policy analyst and media critic.
In addition to the American Chronicle, his commentary has appeared in the Action Ukraine Report, Byzantine Blog, Counterpunch, Eurasian Home, Global Research, Intelligent.ru, Johnson's Russia List, Russia Blog, Serbianna, Siberian Light, The New York Times and The Tiraspol Times.
Antiwar.com, Brama, Economist.com, EIN News, Google News, InoSMI.Ru, Journal of Turkish Weekly, News Now, OpEdNews.com, The Russia Journal and Topix are among several online news/political commentary venues that have carried some of Averko's articles which originally appeared elsewhere.
He has appeared as a panelist on several radio shows, including the BBC World Service's Have Your Say and the The Jay Diamond Show, when the latter aired in New York.
As a panelist at the 2009 World Russia Forum, Averko shared his thoughts and answered questions regarding Russia-West relations, vis-a-vis the disputed former Communist bloc territories.
He initiated an online Guardian Unlimited forum, dealing with former Communist bloc issues.
Averko can be reached at: mikeaverko@msn.com
In addition to the American Chronicle, his commentary has appeared in the Action Ukraine Report, Byzantine Blog, Counterpunch, Eurasian Home, Global Research, Intelligent.ru, Johnson's Russia List, Russia Blog, Serbianna, Siberian Light, The New York Times and The Tiraspol Times.
Antiwar.com, Brama, Economist.com, EIN News, Google News, InoSMI.Ru, Journal of Turkish Weekly, News Now, OpEdNews.com, The Russia Journal and Topix are among several online news/political commentary venues that have carried some of Averko's articles which originally appeared elsewhere.
He has appeared as a panelist on several radio shows, including the BBC World Service's Have Your Say and the The Jay Diamond Show, when the latter aired in New York.
As a panelist at the 2009 World Russia Forum, Averko shared his thoughts and answered questions regarding Russia-West relations, vis-a-vis the disputed former Communist bloc territories.
He initiated an online Guardian Unlimited forum, dealing with former Communist bloc issues.
Averko can be reached at: mikeaverko@msn.com
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Articles by Michael
May 19, 2009
Last month's parliamentary election and political demonstration in Moldova led to greater attention focused on that country.
March 31, 2009
Note: This commentary is an updated version of the article that was originally submitted and posted at Global Research (http://www.globalresearch.ca) on March 31 under the title "At the Crossroads of Strategic Pipeline Corridors: Settling the Dispute Over Nagorno Karabakh." Eurasian Home (http://www.eurasianhome.org) posted the original version on April 1, but with the title used in this American Chronicle (AC) piece.
February 15, 2009
My last American Chronicle article ("Update on the Former Moldavian SSR Dispute," Dec.
November 10, 2008
This past Friday's (November 7) MSNBC show Morning Joe and the PBS aired Worldfocus (written in accordance with that show's preference) reminded me of how CSPAN chose to categorize the Russian government funded 24/7 English language television news station Russia Today (RT).
October 20, 2008
Earlier Today, this commentary was originally posted/published at Eurasian Home (http://www.eurasianhome.org).
October 15, 2008
Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili is not quite the puppet as some suggest.
September 03, 2008
The saying of "different strokes for different folks" comes to mind when observing the diplomatic stances taken to the recognition of disputed territories as nations.
On the matter of recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Serbia's non-recognition is in support of its claim to Kosovo.
August 21, 2008
A series of destabilizing responses were likely if Russia did not counterattack against the August 7 Georgian government strike into South Ossetia.
August 17, 2008
The different views concerning the August 7 Georgian government attack on South Ossetia offer a great study of point-counterpoint claims by opposing sides.
The opinion that Russia created the disputes on former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) territory (Georgia proper, South Ossetia and Abkhazia) is typically presented with the image of an aggressively authoritarian Russia unjustly threatening democratic Georgia.
August 11, 2008
With the recent flare up over South Ossetia in mind, a few other global conflicts relate and contrast to Russia's stance on disputed territories and its military operation against Georgia.
Turkey is the only country recognizing the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" (TRNC) as an independent state.
July 21, 2008
Richard Lourie's July 7 Moscow Times article "It'll Take More Than PR to Improve Russia's Image" focuses attention on how Russia at large can better improve upon the coverage of itself.
June 22, 2008
Yesterday, an example of Russia's global resurgence was exhibited in a thrilling quarter-final match between a young Russian team and a higlhy thought of at the European 2008 men's soccer tournament ("Euro '08").
Playing inspired soccer from the start, Russia had several scoring opportunities.
June 20, 2008
Note: This piece originally appeared earlier today at Russia Blog (http://www.russiablog.org).
June 12, 2008
Joseph Serio's recently released book "Investigating the Russian Mafia" (Carolina Academic Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2008) is a detailed accounting of his study and personal experience on "Russian Mafia" related issues.
May 05, 2008
The recently announced (at the end of last year) formation of the "Institute of Democracy and Cooperation" (IDC) has been getting feedback from Kremlin critical and less critical advocates.
April 18, 2008
An armed flare up in Chechnya this week involved two groups described as "rival pro-Russian forces" by Reuters.
April 16, 2008
Sensationalism, realism or both have been used to describe the "new Cold War" term, regarding the current and possible future relationship between Russia and the West.
April 09, 2008
Since the Soviet breakup, Ukraine has been geo-politically spun in two ways.
March 13, 2008
My March 4 and 11 Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.org) articles received a considerable amount of global feedback.
February 23, 2008
The not so moderate (on former Yugoslav matters involving Serbs) Daniel Serwer will moderate an upcoming Dmitri Simes-Frank Wisner panel discussion on Kosovo in Washington D.C.
February 13, 2008
Numerous reasons are presented to support Kosovo's independence.