Eyal: Appeasement is a Failed Policy
Month: May 2007
Video: EU-Russia Summit
Here is an +10 minute AlJazeera English news report on this week’s EU-Russia Summit, including interviews with Oksana Antonenko of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Dmitri Suslov of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy,...
Event: Energy Risk USA 2007
Yesterday I had a speaking engagement at the Energy Risk USA 2007 conference in Houston, Texas. My brief talk was entitled “The New Calculus of Political Risk,” and focused on how rule of law, property rights, and democracy are damaged...
What Mr. Putin Needs to Hear
From a late night editorial posted to the Financial Times titled: It’s high time for a blunt talk with Mr Putin Russia’s President Vladimir Putin chairs a cabinet meeting at Moscow’s Kremlin May 14, 2007. REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/PRESIDENTIAL...
So Close to Russia, So Far from God
The Streetwise Professor (Dr. Craig Pirrong) has a post today urging the State Dept. to get its act together in regards to the creation of alternative export routes for Central Asia’s gas and oil supplies. He writes: While the Americans and ...
The Forgotten Country
Edward Lucas, blogger and Economist reporter extraordinaire, is currently touring Moldova this week and is posting some diary entries commenting on institutional weaknesses, Soviet legacies, and the problematic breakaway region of Transdniestria. ...
Boston Globe: “Enablers of Kleptocracy”
Following Robert Amsterdam’s speech at Harvard yesterday, the Boston Globe published the attached editorial. Stay tuned for a video of the event right here. Being cool with Putin Globe Editorial May 16, 2007 DURING HER visit to Russia Tuesda...
The Failure of Ostpolitik, The Potential of Europolitik
As German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier made a last minute, unscheduled trip to Russia this week to carry out some crisis control ahead of Friday’s EU-Russia Summit in Samara, Moscow’s relations with the West are looking qui...
Grigory Pasko: Khodorkovsky, Chita, and the Decembrists
The Land Where You Sit: Khodorkovsky, Chita, and the Decembrists By Grigory Pasko, journalist The term of confinement for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the investigative isolator of Chita was extended by decision of the Ingodinsky Dis...
Russian-Estonian Cooperation
Russia and Estonia may be at each other’s throats over the decision to move a war memorial, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other areas of cooperation – such as helping each other out in the Eurovision pop song contest. ...