A recent Atlantic Monthly article prompted some discussion over the continuation of the clan wars, but conspicuously absent from these exchanges was any mention of the key political prisoners held in the eye of the storm: Sergei Storchak and Alexa...
Jeffrey Garten has an interesting post up over at Yale Global about how the U.S. presidential candidates should take their “Town Hall” format of question-and-answer sessions to international audiences, where they can get some new urgen...
As I have written in this space before, I am not entirely convinced that Washington’s plan to install anti-ballistic missile sites in Eastern Europe, intended for technology that does not yet exist to defend against Iranian missiles which do...
There are many in Europe and Washington who downplay the rising tensions between Russia and Georgia, brushing off these exchanges as just another series of rhetorical exercises between a resurgent Kremlin and the uppity governments of former Sovie...
Fyodor Lukyanov has a column in the Moscow Times commenting on Dmitry Medvedev’s ambitious vision for a new global security alliance from “Vancouver to Vladivostok.” These views are based in part on Putin’s reiterated persp...
Journalist, author, and blogger Ed Lucas has a book review of Marshall Goldman’s Petrostate in the Wall Street Journal today: Standing in the nerve center of Gazprom’s Moscow headquarters — staring at a 100-foot wall that electro...
It has been reported that BP’s billionaire partners said the company was planning to “terminate at least several members of senior management that were appointed by AAR” to TNK-BP, but other reports say BP denies this. European Trade Commiss...
Three unidentified Russian metals companies are hoping to announce a major investment worth more than $2 billion in Zambia next month. Current problems for farmers include lack of state regulation, the need for higher subsidies, and the cost of pr...
TODAY: Liberal Medvedev faces “silent war”; Putin’s popularity exceeds Medvedev’s; Yabloko to convene amidst split; US may turn to Lithuania over missile shield; Anna Politkovskaya case closed. The head of a Russian think tank says President Dmitr...
Just when we thought that things couldn’t get any hotter between Russia, Georgia, and the frozen conflict of Abkhazia, further events this week have sent the region toward the brink of outright war. Earlier this week Georgian authorities arr...
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