RT News is reporting that the terrorist attack on the St. Petersburg subway Monday was the work of a Kyrgyz national with Russian citizenship.  Based on the photos shown, he appears to be an Islamic militant. We don't hear much from Kyrgyzstan, a relatively small Central Asian Muslim state situated among three giants: China, Russia, and Kazakhstan.  It is a major producer of gold, and its fertile green valleys are ideal for agriculture, which it has been trying to develop.  It was last heard from in the news when one of its nationals shot up a club in Istanbul, Turkey on New Year's Eve, creating massive casualties. Well, they are back. It's exceptionally bad news because terrorism tends to encourage other terrorism, and it may mean that ISIS, which claimed credit for the Petersburg attack, has infiltrated its society. Here's another reason it's bad: it raises questions as to whether Russia can be of any use as a partner to the...(Read Full Post)