Sobaka magazine[1] was an avant-garde periodical that examined and reviewed events in Third World countries but usually did not get the attention of the mainline press. Countries covered included Haiti,[2] Asian successor states of the Soviet Union and Caucasian and Middle Eastern states. Cali Ruchala, the co-founder, editor, and columnist of the periodical, said, "If there's anything I've tried to illustrate with Sobaka, anything I've hoped to hammer into the heads of everyone within a mile radius of our paper abode, it's to believe nothing you don't see with your own two eyes – and to make an effort to see as much as possible."[3] Seventeen issues of the periodical were published during 1998–2006.