Robert Kagan of the Washington Post wonders if Europe is able to “bring a knife to a knife-fight” to deal with a “rich and resentful” old Russia: Russia and the European Union are neighbors geographically. But geopoliticall...
What follows is a statement of support of former Yukos executive Vasily Alexanyan (Alexanian, Aleksanyan), who is being illegally denied urgent medical treatment in exchange for false testimony, signed by some of Russia’s most preeminent hum...
Oil giant BP is cutting 5,000 jobs following a year that its chief executive said he “will be glad to leave behind”. The company’s talks with Gazprom over the Kovykya gas field have been stalled, meanwhile, “because it’s Russia, ...
Non-profit state-run nanotechnology corporation Rosnanotekh, created last year, has announced its business plans for the year. In the first quarter of 2008, Russian banks and companies will pay foreign creditors $35 billion, including $4.7 billion...
TODAY: Two political opponents of the Kremlin associated with Kasparov are harassed, one receives asylum, another is held in a psychiatric ward. Aleksanyan will not be released from jail for treatment. US worried that Russia could use financial cl...
Following Robert Amsterdam’s speech at the Economic Club of Toronto last week, there has been some significant media coverage (see the CBC segment regarding Petro-Canada and Gazprom). One of the more extensive pieces covering the speech was ...
This is actually an old gag, dug up for kicks on Super Tuesday. Daily Kos nailed this last summer, and even ran a poll over which one looked better. At the time of writing, Obama was winning with 64% over 36% for Vlad.
Here’s an amusing parallel tying together a number of world leaders from Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post: “When you Google the phrase “unconstitutional third term,” you get references to a rogue’s gallery of st...
Today is very important day in U.S. politics, which could prove to be definitive in shaping the foreign policies of the next presidency. You can be sure that the Russia is watching very closely – as it is arguably a much more interesting cam...
A journalist at Forbes believes that the Serb’s choice of Boris Tadic over the pro-Russia hardliner Tomislav Nikolic will diminish but certainly not eliminate the Kremlin’s control over national politics. However the report states that...
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