Here is an interview with Stratfor’s George Friedman on Fox News. No shortage of controversial material here for debate – especially given the strong editorial line taken by Bill O’Reilly, who is able to make the most outspoken g...
Isn’t it great when you can get a third party to endorse your interests for you? That’s exactly what Russia’s Gazprom has been perfecting in recent years by creating tight relationships with key national champions such as BP, Tot...
Teenagers cheer at rally of the pro-Kremlin youth group Young Guard outside Red Square in the center of Moscow, 03 October 2007. (AFP/File/Dmitry Kostyukov) The forthcoming State Duma elections, to be held on December 2nd, “are not about political...
Fed up with excessive and often imprecise criticism of Russia on democracy and human rights, President Vladimir Putin announced that he is setting up an NGO in the heart of Europe to monitor them on rights and civil society issues. Sergei Markov t...
Why would Germany and Russia want to pay twice the cost to route the Nord Stream gas pipeline underwater rather than overland? Politics, of course. A few weeks after Estonia denied Russia the right to surveys in Estonian waters for the pipeline pr...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is reflected on a glass panel at the Lisbon Oceanareum during his visit October 26, 2007. REUTERS/Pedro Santa Barbara/Lisbon Oceanarium The Central Election Commission has completed the registration of feder...
Tonight the Association of Art in Support of Civil Liberties of Paris is hosting what promises to be a wonderful performance of works by Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Schnittke, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and others interpreted by Aurélien Pontier (piano)...
In Shankar Vedantam’s column in the Washington Post today, he opens up a discussion of how the U.S. effort to build democracy in Iraq has been fundamentally flawed for its failure to engage the dynamic of social capital, and harness the cohe...
Kim Zigfeld has a column up on Pajamas Media exploring the issue of Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a political prisoner – taking the discussion beyond the lawyer arguments commonly found on this blog: Allegations that the Kremlin jailed Khodorokovs...
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