This site is a record of development activity in the former Soviet Union. Or, if readers prefer, a log rather than a record. It's a log kept faithfully over the years. Archive.org has previous versions, all of which say the same things with new content added slowly and surely over time.
So, this is a web log, stemming from days where such things hadn't even been given a special web name -- such as 'blog.' Blog is shorthand for web log. I prefer not to call it a blog, because it was here before that label ever existed and because 'blog' has been given a bad name by anonymous smear campaigners in locations such as Google's blogspot. Anyone can go to such places and say anything. Libel is permitted. People vetting P-CED will likely come across such a thing. Which, upon honest due diligence, turns out to be libel posted by anonymous 'sources.'
Merely working in post-Soviet space invites smear attacks against folks whose only aim is to try and help other people. People experienced in such efforts are likely to understand exactly what I mean. In post-Soviet space, no reform effort and no good deed goes unpunished. This website is an honest account of what happened so far, up to and including breakthroughs that were considered by some (most, I think) to be impossible.
Impossible just takes a little longer and dealing with attacks to live and continue another day. This web site is a record of key activities around which controversy swirled, because controversy and reform go hand in hand. This site is a web log, or a blog in modern vernacular. But it was a web log from the days when things like this were novel. This one isn't novel, but the insight offered into post-Soviet space via development, uncovered, probably is novel.
Terry Hallman
Kharkiv, Ukraine