Following RusAl’s criticism of Norilsk Nickel’s environmental record, an official who granted Norilsk a permit to emit polluting gases is being investigated over possible abuse of office. Russian nickel producer Industrial Metallurgical Holding is...
TODAY: Medvedev is hawkish on further conflict; Russia has not withdrawn troops, closes Georgian border, begins exchanging prisoners; Red Cross barred from entering South Ossetia; youth movement coordinator charged for blog entries; PR war continu...
In this speech, Sen. John McCain makes some very aggressive statements about Russia and the war in Georgia, with no shortage of references to Cold War history. It appears that unwavering support for the former Soviet states is quickly becoming a c...
Pavel Felgenhauer is a respected Russian military reporter and generally well known man-about-town among the opposition, and his latest piece in Novaya Gazeta about Russia’s early war planning for the invasion of Georgia is making quite a st...
A modest haul Grigory Pasko, journalist The Russian Olympic team, poor in gold medals, evokes a feeling of pity in me. The athletes are forced to be distracted by events that have nothing to do with the Olympics. For example, by the war of Russia ...
In a sea of opinion and chatter on the war in the Caucasus, this think piece from Walter Laqueur focusing on the geopolitical consequences on the Middle East on Harvard’s MESH Blog is very, very interesting, and should be read in its entiret...
Today Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post hits on the classic maxim of modern geopolitics – when in doubt, blame the Americans. Rosa Brooks provides a prime example to prove Hiatt’s point, but then again, maxims wouldn’t exist if t...
Former Prime Minister of Finland Paavo Lipponen is now an official employee of the Russian government. In my previous post on Gerhard Schroeder and the war, I briefly mentioned Gazprom’s hiring of Finland’s former Prime Minister Paavo Lippon...
Given how much we’ve blogged about Russia’s most highly paid lobbyist, the rent-a-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, it should come as no surprise that he has been one of the most vocal defenders of the Russian invasion of Georgia (though I...
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
