Today, as expected, Robert Mugabe cruised to a landslide victory in his “one-candidate” poll amid a chorus of international outrage, disgust, and disbelief. In all the publications I can find defending his victory, I sense a distinct s...
Ah, there’s nothing better the beginnings of a catty new fight among Russia academics. A few days ago we had the Andreas Umland smackdown of Eric Kraus, and today, Juliet Johnson of McGill University in Canada takes a few light potshots at M...
The Financial Times has an editorial today about the EU-Russia Summit held at the end of this week in Siberia, commenting that if they can begin to “treat each other with the respect they deserve,” then they can finally get over the ye...
Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post has a column today addressing Dmitry Medvedev’s foreign policy ambitions, and Russia’s attempt to create a “new world order” by fundamentally changing the postwar global security architec...
Today the Financial Times has some good articles on Gazprom, and below the cut is the full transcript of the paper’s interview with CEO Alexei Miller. He sticks to his guns on $250 oil, the futility of OPEC, and other scary sounding ideas to...
Today the terrific blog Global Voices links to a useful map explaining the Russia-Georgia disputes over Abkhazia. From The Reference Frame: Look at the map. Start with the yellow disk, a global perspective. We are discussing the piece of land (blu...
Garry Kasparov, tireless as ever, fires another missive slamming the Kremlin for soft censorship and repression of the press, citing the willingness of Western media to help paint a positively innocent picture of today’s Russia. Like many of...
The Moscow Times reports that Javier Solana’s late arrival to Russia for the summit cost him dearly, as the state-run media had the obligation to cover Medvedev’s simultaneous arrival: But with Solana’s late arrival, his plane la...
In a move that is unlikely to ease UK-Russia tensions, Scotland Yard has reopened its investigation of the 1978 murder of Bulgarian émigré Georgi Markov, who was famously assassinated via a poison pellet believed to have been delivered by a spy...
If upheld by a court, AAR’s new accusation that a recently elected TNK-BP board is “illegal” could cripple BP’s ability to manage its Russian assets and refineries. Stan Polovets says that the last straw before the current row was a dispute ...
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