Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for talks in the Kremlin in Moscow November 5, 2007. REUTERS/RIA-Novosti/Kremlin (RUSSIA) The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has confirmed that it will m...
Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation has published an important new energy paper examining what needs to be done to solve Europe’s near total lack of coherence on a common energy security policy. The familiar trends and patterns of Russia&...
There’s another book review of Steve LeVine’s “The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea” on EurasiaNet. Registan also reviewed the book, and Steve has done some innovative marketing with s...
IQ2U.S. has a 12-part (!) new debate series up on YouTube which pits Claudia Rosett, Bret Stephens and J. Michael Waller in an Oxford-style debate against Nina Khrushcheva, Robert Legvold and Mark Medish. The debate is moderated by journalist and ...
Attached here is the full PDF translation of the decision from a Dutch court which declared the Russian government’s liquidation of Yukos assets (YUKOS Finance BV) to be illegal. The court ruled that the bankruptcy receiver Eduard Rebgun, wh...
The democratic transformation of the post-communist group of nations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia has lost a lot of steam in recent years. Since the color revolutions and other successful transitions to representative governments and open societi...
When the New York Times first reported that Mikhail Gorbachev posed for a Louis Vuitton ad, we didn’t really have anything to add to this peculiar development (many other blogs talked about it, including SRB). In this series of Vuitton ads, ...
Jonathan Evans, head of MI5, told Reuters he is tired of throwing away resources on Russia’s spy games when there are other serious security threats from terror groups like al-Qaeda: “Since the end of the Cold War we have seen no decre...
Medvedev “worships Putin like a father figure, or at least like an older brother” says Valery Musin to the MT (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel) Russia has long maintained a rich texture of public archetypes for its leaders. Mikhail Gorbachev w...
Welcome to RA 2.0 – the new three-column redesign of the blog. Hopefully this new design will make the blog easier to navigate, and help you find what you’re looking for. Please take note of the following new features: 1.) A new Google...
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