Once again Hungary sides with Russia to the detriment of European energy security by backing a politically divisive pipeline. I wouldn’t be so sure that Gazprom doesn’t have some deals brewing with Austria to keep this positive tension...
An interesting article about the intrepid economist Ben Olken brings to mind many questions about how the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya fails or succeeds in changing Russia: Olken wonders whether economic development and the path to democra...
Building bridges — and pipelines — with Tehran should be a strategic priority for the EU By Derek Brower, journalist ONE COUNTRY holds the key in the EU’s battle to secure alternative and secure sources of energy: Iran. With over...
Joshua Keating of FP Passport is amused by the recent leak of the video showing Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Andrei Bogdanov’s campaign manager getting into some on-air fisticuffs which erupted during a debate. Keating remarks that “Of cou...
Today Amnesty International has released a new report entitled “Freedom Limited. The right to freedom of expression in the Russian Federation,” which investigates how the Kremlin interprets and utilizes vague legislation to restrict ri...
Hungary will join Russia’s South Stream gas pipeline project to transport Russian natural gas across the Black Sea to the Balkans and on to other European countries, after an agreement was signed by Dmitry Medvedev last night. Critics say th...
French carmaker Renault is delaying a deal to purchase a stake in AvtoVAZ, Russia’s biggest automaker, without giving precise reasons. The chief purchasing officer at the latter company was murdered last week in his apartment building, and o...
TODAY: Will the Putin/Medvedev working relationship survive? EU to agree on principles for sovereign wealth funds. Russia’s military and healthcare under attack. “The unfortunate reality is that duty rather than interest will take Russians to the ...
Yesterday the acclaimed author and highly regarded political commentator Mario Vargas Llosa published a long and powerful opinion column in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Spain’s largest daily newspaper, El Pais. Mr. Vargas Llosa makes r...
Russia was quick to reprimand the insensitive Estonians for moving a monument to a Soviet soldier from the center of Tallinn to a military cemetery, but it looks like the power learned a thing or two from the incident. It is noteworthy that the Ru...
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