Lest we become too obsessed with Russia’s politicized oil and gas sector, there are also concerns that the massive mining clout held by Norilsk Nickel could be mobilized as another Kremlin weapon in the case of nationalization. Rumors say th...
The Telegraph is running an aggressive editorial today to accompany their report on the harrowing resurgence of “punitive psychiatry” in today’s Russia. Things are different in modern Russia, where, as we report in horrifying det...
Nina Khrushcheva has a new op/ed in the IHT taking on Putin’s Russia from a literary analysis: In Gogol’s Russia, which is also, sadly, Vladmir Putin’s Russia, individual needs are neglected, the state’s needs are overstate...
[Editor’s note: while this blog is ostensibly about Russian affairs, we also have a strong interest in global energy politics, and will be making an effort to occasionally branch out to discuss the impact of state-owned energy firms on the m...
A rather important op/ed from Henry Kissinger in the IHT today. I had always suspected that Bush’s exceedingly friendly reception for Putin at Kennebunkport was aimed at increasing cooperation on the Iran issue (which I believe is starting t...
The lede paragraph from Marc Champion’s article on the Georgia-Russia missile story in today’s Wall Street Journal speaks volumes: Georgia’s demand for a special United Nations Security Council session on Russian missiles dropped...
A small round of congratulations are in order. Below, with Derek Brower’s think piece on resource nationalism, my blog has finally hit 1,000 posts in just a little over 11 months since inception! We also have 473 German language articles and...
For a solution to resource nationalism, it’s time to look closer to home By Derek Brower, journalist SO YOU don’t like the way your dealer treats you? You think he’s a bully? He doesn’t respect you? And you simply can’t trust him? Well then stop b...
Well, it’s been another wonderful week in Russian disinformation. Today the big news is that the Moscow City Court has granted the Interior Ministry’s request to seize 100% of shares of the oil company Russneft and continue with the cr...
In a column published in the International Herald Tribune, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and Current President of the EU-Russia Centre Paddy Ashdown reminds us that the West need not lecture Russia about democracy, but rather simply ask t...
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