“What we need in dealing with Russia and the former Soviet Republics is to play softball on the politics and hardball on the commerce.” Russia risks running out of storage capacity for corn, wheat and barley, threatening a government plan to expan...
TODAY: Russian troop withdrawal status in chaos; conflicting reports on Nato ties. Khodorkovsky’s parole hearing postponed until tomorrow. What will China’s response to Georgian conflict be? Polish support for missile defense shield increases; Syr...
The news of this court ruling allowing Rosneft and Gunvor to remain opaque about their commercial relations is a prime example of Russia’s state capture. It’s no wonder that so many speculate that Gunvor is the biggest siloviki piggy b...
This new comment piece in the FT, which argues that the West has got the wrong strategy on the Georgia issue, misses the point about the loss of Russia’s soft power. It will be difficult for Moscow to explain away the fact that their invasio...
The forgotten «mutiny» Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In August in Russia they traditionally remember about the failed putsch of the year 1991 – the Kremlin overthrow by th...
Mikhail Gorbachev has quite a testy op/ed in the New York Times this week, which although is elusive on many points, makes the compelling argument that Russia’s perspectives and interests have long been ignored in international institutions....
Veronica Khokhlova at Global Voices Online, who’s always been very kind to link over to us, has a great post up linking to a LiveJournal user blogging about a satirical protest staged in Tbilisi in front of the Russian Embassy to bring atten...
This is getting close to a week old, but is still quite hilarious, even more so with Stallone’s signature bad timing of taking a huge ad contract in wartime. MOSCOW (Reuters) – Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone, mighty destroyer of So...
This column by Michael Gerson in the Washington Post is rather interesting: The nation of Georgia is a place of inspiration and danger. I saw both in a single hour. I was in Tbilisi’s Freedom Square during President Bush’s visit in May...
Joshua Foust at Registan.net is one of my favorite bloggers, even when I disagree with him. Two things he has written recently are worth a look: a critique of the rather poor blog coverage, in his opinion, of the Russian invasion of Georgia in the...
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