Kommersant reports that Russia has warned of one more action aimed at preventing an American missile defence system in Eastern Europe. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that the Iranian missile threat was “implausible,” and so there...
You may recall that December of last year marked the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and so far into 2008, we have seen some steps forward as well as some steps back in terms of major events in international law. On ...
John Lloyd, the former Moscow bureau chief of the Financial Times, had an interesting dispatch this past weekend about the unknown fate of numerous American prisoners in Stalinist Russia. Cold-shouldered By John Lloyd When, in 1992, I travelled to...
Sean Guillory is disappointed with Russia’s decision to block international action from the UN against Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe: “Maybe it’s some kind of gangster code. All gangsters, of whatever stripes, stick together.” I...
Jonathan Steele has a column in the Guardian today which some of our readers may find controversial: Now we have Medvedev insulted on his international debut, and pilloried in Britain and the US for allegedly backing down on sanctions against Muga...
Quite an unusual story in the Moscow Times today that Vladimir Putin publicly criticized Alexei Miller of Gazprom regarding the company’s monopoly over pipeline exports. The dressing-down of this ally was practically Zubkov-ian: “I wou...
The following news clip covers Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller’s trip to Tehran to establish a cooperative relationship with the Iranian national gas company.
Peter Finn of the Washington Post has an interesting piece today on President Dmitry Medvedev’s anti-corruption efforts: On the way to the apartment, the professor and the student settled on the terms for everyone, recounted Alexander, 22. E...
Vladimir Putin has “scolded” Alexei Miller over companies’ access to Gazprom pipelines. Putin made a tour of a new oil rig in the Arctic. “The Russian pipelines of Nord Stream (in the Baltic) and South Stream (across the Black Sea) form an effecti...
Russia’s Finance Ministry says that troubles at US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do not pose a threat to the country’s gold and foreign currency reserves. Russia holds about $100 billion in US agencies’ debt, but says it h...
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