Location: Russia

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With the opening of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games approaching on Feb. 7, Drexel University experts are available to assist the news media with its coverage on a variety of topics.

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Valerie Bunce, professor of international studies at Cornell University and co-author of the upcoming book “American Democracy Promotion and Electoral Change in Post-Communist Europe and Eurasia,” explains why the recent protests in Moscow signal the end of Russian President Putin's invincibility.

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Allen Lynch, a University of Virginia politics professor, is the author of the new book, "Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft." His other books include "How Russia Is Not Ruled" and "Does Russia Have a Democratic Future?"

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Whether the old or new Putin emerges the victor seems to be the real question in the five way race to win the Russian presidency. American University experts are available to provide analysis.

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Russian expert available to comment on the upcoming presidential election in Russia.

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Journalists from around the world will spend a week at Ithaca College learning how to use multimedia and alternative resources for gathering and disseminating news in their respective countries. Among those participating are journalists from Ukraine, Georgia, Venezuela, Kenya, Malaysia, India, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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Many in the world community saw Russia's military response to pleas for help from South Ossetia as a pretext to invade Georgia, which it promptly did. Lisa Baglione, chair and professor of political science at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, sees the incipient Georgian-Russian conflict, and other clashes that have erupted throughout the region "“ in Croatia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo and elsewhere "“ as a complex problem related to the devolution of sovereignty.

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International tensions are high over the war in Iraq, and emerging diplomatic concerns stemming from the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia -- as well as a recent agreement to site a U.S. missile defense system on Polish soil. How these events play out will likely play a significant role in the direction of the upcoming elections.

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The Russian government stands accused of being the source of the attacks flooding Georgian government Web sites with traffic, making them inaccessible to users. Is it true? University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Director of Research in Computer Forensics Gary Warner has been investigating the situation and has found some answers.

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University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) history Professor George Liber, Ph.D., is available to discuss the cultural differences between the Russian and Georgian people.

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The UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Spam Data Mine is seeing new escalations in the so-called "Russian-Georgian Cyber War". More than 500 e-mails were received in a 90 minutes period this morning at UAB claiming to be a BBC story revealing that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is homosexual.

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Russia's incursion into neighboring Georgia shows that post-Cold War alliances may be more complex than previously thought, and it leaves the United States in a difficult position, according to Douglas Woodwell, assistant professor of international relations at the University of Indianapolis.

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Retired Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh, a former peace negotiator for conflicts in the Caucasus region, is available to comment on the escalating Russian and Georgian conflict over the Caucasus region of South Ossetia.