Carl Thomson is a public affairs consultant and commentator on Russian and East European affairs. He was the Conservative Party parliamentary candidate for Glasgow East at the 2005 General Election. Shortly after the 2003 Rose Revolution which brought Mikheil Saakashvili to power in Georgia, his wife explained that her husband aspired to follow in the […]
Carl Thomson is a public affairs consultant and commentator on Russian and East European affairs. A former Conservative Party Parliamentary Candidate, he was elected to Woking Borough Council in May 2010. He previously worked for Theresa May and John Redwood. While Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev have successfully “reset” relations between the United States and […]
Carl Thomson is a public affairs consultant and commentator on Russian and East European affairs. A former Conservative Party Parliamentary Candidate and aide to John Redwood, he is also a Woking Borough Councillor and runs his own translation and interpreting business. As a former Parliamentary candidate for a Scottish constituency, I find the endless arguments […]
Carl Thomson is a commentator on Russian and East European affairs and was the Conservative Party candidate for Glasgow East at the 2005 General Election. On 17th January, Ukraine will hold its fifth presidential election since it declared independence from the Soviet Union. The incumbent, Viktor Yushchenko, has the lowest opinion poll ratings ever recorded […]
Carl Thomson is a commentator on Russian and East European affairs and was the Conservative Party candidate for Glasgow East at the 2005 General Election. Writing a year after the beginning of the Russia-Georgia War, he takes a somewhat different viewpoint than Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox, who wrote this article yesterday on the subject. […]
Carl Thomson is a commentator on Russian and East European affairs and was the Conservative candidate for Glasgow East at the 2005 General Election. It was ten years ago last month that NATO launched a massive 81 day bombing campaign against the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, causing the deaths of more than 480 civilians […]
Carl Thomson is a commentator on Russian and East European affairs and was the Conservative Party candidate for Glasgow East at the 2005 General Election. He recently travelled to Georgia, Armenia and the breakaway republic of Nagorno Karabakh. The Russians may have won the war for South Ossetia, but the long-term victory belongs to the […]
Carl Thomson is a commentator on Russian and East European affairs and a former Conservative Party Parliamentary Candidate. When Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia in March 2000, Tony Blair hailed him as “a moderniser, with a focused view of what he wants to achieve”. Eight years later, Britain harbours as political refugees those […]
Carl Thomson is a public affairs consultant and commentator on Russian and East European affairs. He was the Conservative Party parliamentary candidate for Glasgow East at the 2005 General Election. “Everyone knows the Soviet Union didn’t occupy Eastern Europe. We liberated it. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying”. It crossed my mind that millions […]