Somewhere deep down in the labyrinthine hallways of the Kremlin, I like to imagine the silovik team currently handling the country’s foreign policy (this week) vigorously debating which foreign leader can most quickly be flown into Tskhinval...
Perhaps the catch-all slogan for this year’s U.S. presidential election could be “it’s not the economy, but the energy, stupid.” Surely it takes no genius to see the immense challenge of Moscow’s foreign policy as inf...
I caught this letter to the editor of the IHT from a Rutgers political science professor. I expect we’re going to start to hear this perspective quite a lot in the United States soon. The war against Georgia is not the first instance of Russ...
Roger Boyes has a well intentioned but amusingly flawed column in the New Statesman on the war and what it means for Vladimir Putin’s future. The problem with comparing this to the 1968 invasion signifying the “death knell of communism...
Master of the iron arteries Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Probably the only kind of roads in Russia about which you could say that they exist are railroads. Of course, the...
Sometimes it can be tough to read the signs coming out of Moscow which indicate that they are really, really angry with you. Some might argue that you know there’s no love lost when they cut off your gas, stop oil shipments, steal your compa...
I’ll admit that both the Georgians and the Russians are being a little clumsy with their information spin in this conflict, which at its worst leads skeptical journalists to declare moral equivalence. This bit from the spin wars comes from t...
Illustration by KAL, Economist (source) Dan Fried is right to poke some holes in this dominant Russian narrative, which of course feeds into the portrayal of the country as a “victim” which Bob so often talks about, but this seems like...
Barack Obama’s candidate for Vice President Sen. Joe Biden made the Russian invasion of Georgia a heavy focus of the foreign policy piece of his speech to the Democratic National Convention last night. It would have been hard to imagine just...
The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service is investigating LUKoil, Russia’s second-biggest oil producer, on suspicion that it barred a smaller rival from using its pipeline in the Komi republic. LUKoil is set to ask Russian anti-trust authorities to oblig...
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