Tony Halpin’s new article in the Times of London probably carries one of the paper’s less tactful headlines today: “Russia engages in ‘gangland’ diplomacy as it sends warship to the Caribbean.” Halpin reports: D...
Dandelion Salad points to this video of former Secretary of State Colin Powell speaking about the war as a “predictable” conflict that could have been avoided. I’m less inclined to believe that the actual substance of Powell̵...
I’ve kept mostly mum about Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s ongoing claims of being an expert on Russia affairs because 1) so many others out there are doing a pretty good job tearing this narrative to shreds, and 2) because it ...
The Boston Globe appears to believe that the hard line being pushed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Russia is inappropriate and unnecessary, especially when compared to the realist assessment of Minister of Defense Robert Gates, who appa...
Ukraine’s economy is suffering even more than Russia’s, partly thanks to the latter cutting its energy price subsidies. Nigerian militants have called a ceasefire, potentially halting attacks on oil and gas facilities in the country which have ser...
The Finance Ministry’s original list of three banks that would receive emergency budget funding has stretched to twenty eight, to offset damage done to liquidity in the banking sector by last week’s stock market tumbles. Alexei Kudrin has revealed...
TODAY: Putin ‘defiant’ on troops in breakaway regions, signs new agreements with France; Medvedev responds to Condoleezza Rice; EU struggling on human rights issues against Russia. Aslamazyan to pay fine and go free; cartoons banned. Yushchenko on...
Aluminum cucumbers Grigory Pasko, journalist In the September 19 issue of the newspaper «Moskovsky komsomolets» is printed an article «And on the seacoast by the bay Putin walks…» Sub-heading – «At the economic forum in Sochi they acquainted...
From Anders Aslund in the Daily Star: Putin continues to deny that Russia’s financial problems were caused by his war in Georgia, and it took the Central Bank more than a month to provide substantial liquidity injections. But it was already ...
It seems that Vladimir Putin has a thing or two to teach Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and vice versa. The expulsion of Jose Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch from Venezuela is eerily familiar to Russia-watchers, who recall the fiasco invol...
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