Leon Aron has a very interesting new piece over at TheAmerican.com. We thought it was about time that somebody dusted off Max Weber’s views on authoritarian political models for application to today’s Russia. In addition to the charact...
From the Associated Press: As the European Union prepares to restart talks on cooperation with Russia, the United States is warning that the move could undermine Western attempts to rein in the Kremlin’s aggressive foreign policy. (…) ...
Now that Russia has successfully stolen the spotlight to become President-elect Barack Obama’s #1 foreign policy puzzle, a deluge of advice is pouring in from all corners. Let’s hope that the next president is already aware of most of ...
This is an excerpt from an interview with the French Mid-East scholar Gilles Kepel: Q. What is your advice for the next president of the United States? A. After Iraq, it is clear that American military might is no longer a sufficient gateway to po...
Gazprom’s bid to become the major shareholder in Repsol, Spain’s biggest oil company, has made the Spanish finance minister ‘uncomfortable’, and according to this earlier report, the offer has already been rejected. The EU is still trying to manag...
The MICEX is struggling to deal with conflicting orders of whether or not to suspend trading following a further drop in the price of crude. The New York Times outlines some of the key aims of countries attending this weekend’s G20 financial crisi...
TODAY: Putin to stage early elections? Moscow newspaper editor in critical condition after being beaten; EU-Russia talks resume today amid Kremlin’s tensions with Ukraine and worries over NATO expansion; Gates critical of missile plans; Putin’s co...
This would actually be really, really funny if it weren’t so tragically true, sad, and thoroughly outlandish. From the Moscow Times: Blaming the turmoil, Standard and Poor’s took the unprecedented step Thursday of disclosing only the t...
You’ve got to hand it to the Spanish – while their friends in France, Germany, and even Italy get twisted up in the bickering with other EU members over common energy policy and relations with Russia, the Iberian peninsula often appear...
Barack Obama may remember a few things about Russian bureaucracy from his 2005 trip. From the Economist: DETAINING the next president of the United States for three hours in what an eyewitness called a “malodorous” small room at an airport in the ...
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