Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, is extremely pleased that the New York Times has finally come around to reporting Moscow’s account (per the OSCE report) of how the war with Georgia started. The letter he sent...
From Massimo Calabresi at TIME: So did Obama’s non-confrontational response impede progress on resolving the dispute with Moscow over missile defense? Probably not. Given the Democrat’s ambiguous position on the issue, Russia is unlike...
Barack Obama has repeatedly said that any missile system in Europe would not be deployed until the technology exists (meaning he’d delay it indefinitely). So why all the fuss?
James Rubin, who was assistant secretary of state during the Clinton administration, has a interesting piece today in the New Republic about Russia’s Kosovo analogy for Georgia and grounds for intervention. Rubin urges the United States not ...
It seems as though decades have passed since the heydays of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s ascendancy; back before critics were braying for his resignation over a few human rights snafus, back when this titan of American power stro...
The following is a translation of a rather tongue-in-cheek article from Izvestia about the latest raft of deals between Russia and Venezuela. Bolivar survived two Igor Sechin brought Hugo Chavez a hundred Russian partners By Vladimir Demchenko Rus...
Today the French newspaper Le Figaro has published a lengthy interview with the president of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev. Below we present an English translation. The big news revealed in the interview is a seemingly direct offer to pr...
Vladimir Putin has threatened to call off construction on the $9.4 billion Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Europe, suggesting that Russia could just simply use the resources to build more expensive LNG terminals instead, unless Europe incr...
Moscow has delayed the introduction of higher EU timber tariffs on exports, as a conciliatory measure ahead of tomorrow’s EU-Russia summit in Nice, which is expected to see some difficult exchanges and few breakthroughs. The drop in value of the r...
TODAY: Kremlin continues to ignore Bush administration, Medvedev optimistic on relations under Obama; US to support Ukraine’s NATO bid at meeting; Russia wants EU inquiry into OSCE accounts of outbreak of war in Georgia; population to drop by 34 m...
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