Georgie Anne Geyer

As tough-talking Gen. Alexander Lebed is formally inaugurated this week as governor of Russia's vast, remote and enormously rich region of Krasnoyarsk, many still fear he is a dangerous "man...

I lived through the old Soviet days. You have to understand how many sour, nasty, self-righteous officials I met here in the '60s, '70s and even the '80s who would...

"We want to be friends with the world. All we want is for everybody to love everybody else (particularly us). We are willing to give almost anything for such friendship,...

It all started with a little article in the May 11 issue of The New Yorker about a fax that a lot of people at the United Nations would dearly...

Although his wide-ranging poetry, criticism and essays are being reread across the globe, it seems to me that many analysts are missing the central passion of the writings of Octavio...

For decades, new Americans have had to take the citizen's oath, which begins, "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity...

When the stern, unyielding Gen. Augusto Pinochet stepped down as commander in chief of the Chilean armed forces this week, thousands of his countrymen thought of the Chilean dead he...

Once upon a time many years ago, there was an Earth Day. It was a beautiful day, filled with hopeful dreams that the human environment would be saved by men...

Here's what will really happen Wednesday if the little-reported United States-Puerto Rico Political Status Act is passed, as is, by Congress: The passage will soon lead first to a referendum...

Five years ago, I drove the hourlong distance from this attractive capital to the forbidden Serbian region of Kosovo--even then the next trouble spot in the Balkans. There I found...