Dmitry Medvedev’s tour of Latin America is certainly making some headlines, but as I mentioned this weekend, there are still some fundamental misunderstandings about Russia’s goals in the region. However I did see an interesting ...
This bit comes from a review of the book L’Envers du Pouvoir by Marie Mendras (Odile Jacob, 2008) by Dr. Fraser Cameron of the EU-Russia Centre. Mendras begins by noting that Russia was always an empire state as opposed to a nation state. Th...
The Partnership Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the European Union and the Russian Federation, which will reopen for talks in early December, sounds and feels very appealing from afar. Like any well marketed piece of diplomacy, it contai...
Today Paul Goble blogs about a recent article in the New Times by Valery Panyushkin, which argues that Russia under Vladimir Putin is rapidly beginning to look like the Russia of Leonid Brezhnev. A few years back, Bob also wrote that soverei...
This weekend there were reports that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Polish President Lech Kaczynski encountered gunfire at a Russian controlled checkpoint in South Ossetia. No one was harmed, but the chance for potential conseque...
Last week the local Polish newspaper Dziennik Polski published an interview with Jadwiga Rogoza from the Eastern Studies Centre, who spoke about the problem of judicial independence in Russia’s legal system as showcased by the current trial ...
Javier Marias has an article in the New Republic, pointing out that no matter how terrible your predicament, one can’t help but compare it to something seen on television or in popular film. The same goes for our perceptions of our political...
It’s not just Russian you’ll hear on the streets of Venezuela’s capital these days, as several Iranian businesses have sent hundreds of employees over to begin work on various “friendship” projects at the invitation o...
Gazprom is pressing Ukraine to make a decision on gas imports, saying that if a contract is not signed before the end of the year, the security of gas supplies will be under threat. In the meantime, the company may apply to international cou...
Unemployment currently stands at a seven-month high, but analysts say this is nothing compared with what’s to come. Garry Kasparov predicts that troubles stemming from the financial crisis will lead to ‘more openness among the Ru...
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