A valuable article by Ray Takeyh and Nikolas Gvosdev is running in today’s IHT, which examines Russia’s motives in the Iran nuclear question: The incongruity of providing sensitive nuclear resources to a country that is actively sancti...
From Tom Keane in the Boston Globe: TIME MAGAZINE named Vladimir Putin its “Person of the Year.” Time Inc. officials said they were surprised at the choice, since the Russian president hadn’t been nominated for the honor and no c...
Serbia is deeply divided by Gazprom’s $590 million bid to take over the state petroleum monopoly NIS, a deal which is strongly leveraged upon a connection to the planned South Stream pipeline. The improving profitability of Russia’s do...
From Fouad Ajami in U.S. News and World Report: Beyond the great economic questions posed by this transfer of wealth lies a political matter of increasing importance: the connection between petroleum and autocracy. Oil is the dictators’ drea...
The Moscow Times has a pretty entertaining version of the obligatory year end retrospective: The outgoing year began with plans by Zenit, the St. Petersburg football club funded by gas giant Gazprom, to build a beer pipeline at its stadium to fuel...
On New Year’s Day in Russia, there were reports of a sudden shortage of pet rats, a new law banning fireworks, and popular adulation of foreign football coaches. Although 2007 closed with political relations between Russia and the West at a ...
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