Video: Footage from the Lobster Summit
Here is a short video clip from Vladimir Putin’s visit to the Bush family home at Kennebunkport.
Month: July 2007
The Lobster Summit and Gourmet Diplomacy
Somehow I think it’s going to take much more than a few lobster rolls to solve Kosovo and the missile shield, but this blog entry from NYT’s The Lede is entertaining: Tension? Critics? Food? A need for some comic relief? Sounds like a ...
The Russia Conundrum
From the new issue of the leftist journal Dissent, a highly debatable article from Frederico Varese. THE GRAPH THAT provides the best explanation of the Russian conundrum consists of three lines: the world oil price, the degree of democracy in Rus...
Grigory Pasko: Traveling the Nord Stream, Part X
The Coordinators from EWN By Grigory Pasko, journalist Just a couple of kilometers outside Lubmin is an industrial center – that’s what the name is now for the 25-hectare site of the huge Nord nuclear power station, which was decommissioned 15 yea...
What Russia’s Economy Needs
La Russophobe has posted an interesting translation of an Andrei Illarionov article on Publius Pundit. Excerpt: The Russian economy might have grown more quickly on account of its oil industry, but as a result of the government’s breakup of ...
What’s Wrong with London?
For some time I have followed the case of media baron Conrad Black with great interest. Today in the Guardian is an interesting piece by Nick Cohen, reminding us why the London Stock Exchange remains the preferred destination for Russia’s IP...
European Energy Security in the U.S. Elections
Adrian Karatnycky of Orange Circle argues in the Washington Post that the US election could help bring forward European energy security as a potential side issue in some states. It’s a pity that the United States seems more concerned with Eu...
