The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece today on a very influential former British Army captain, Ryan Grist, who was serving as an OSCE war monitor in Georgia before he went AWOL across the Russian line on his own improvised fact-finding ...
The Kremlin has proposed to increase its holding in the electricity sector, offering to bail out big electricity companies such as OGK-1 by organizing the purchase of company stakes by state banks, and is also drafting plans for a $5.25 billion el...
Despite its falling value against the dollar, its new record low against the euro, fears of devaluation and its third fall in a week, this report alleges that Russians still trust their national currency and still want to be paid in rubles. ...
TODAY: Concerns over potential unrest; bill could impose curfews on teenagers; Russia suggests deal with US on missile defense, blocks UN resolution on Holodomor.Crashing energy prices are stirring concerns about the potential for unrest in Russia...
Marcel H. Van Herpen, who heads up the Cicero Foundation, has released a new paper entitled “Russia, Georgia and the European Union: The Creeping Finlandization of Europe.” As one can observe from the opening allegory in the pape...
This has nothing directly to do with Russia, but the news clip below contains a short discussion on this week’s 30th anniversary of China’s economic political reform – a time for us to take a look at what has changed (and what ha...
Photo: Nicaragua‘s President Daniel Ortega, left, shakes hands with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, after a signing ceremony in the Kremlin, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008.AP Photo by Mikhail Metzel) Today the president of Nicaragua, Dani...
There are probably three moments we can identify over the past six years which may be regarded as the critical junctures in Russia’s relations with Europe and the United States: 1) the state’s theft of Yukos, 2) the 2006 New Year...
His vice presidential candidate, Joe Biden, was the first one to say it during the campaign, and we agreed wholeheartedly that Barack Obama would face a serious test, predicting that it would be Moscow to take the debate. We thought perhaps ...
We have seen the policy become implemented in incremental steps – a new history textbook here, closed access to historical records there, mounting pressure on reconciliation and truth groups, and even a television poll for the most important...
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