Grigol Vashadze, the foreign minister of Georgia, was in Washington this week to sign a strategic security accord with Washington (one final poke in the eye of Russia from the outcoming Bush administration). Joshua Keating over at Foreign Po...
Crisis, what crisis? Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Head of the Ministry of Finance Alexey Kudrin in the last days of the year gone by noted that inflation in Russia remain...
The solution to all of Russia’s economic ills may lie in a ten-foot deep hole in the middle of the Gobi Desert. Here’s a real wild story from the LA Times of an American socialite and daughter of a Russian prince who is on the hunt for...
Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, has really been on a tear lately, with the launching of a new blog over at Foreign Policy and numerous appearances in the press. Sometimes they have decent intelligence, sometimes the insights are...
The Economist has been writing a series of open emails to Barack Obama in the run-up to his inauguration, offering suggestions on various issues that the US President-elect will turn his hand to. Its latest missive has a few suggestions on h...
I will confess to feeling a certain level of exhaustion with the Ukraine-Russia natural gas dispute. Therefore I’ll let the Economist do some heavy lifting for me, which describes the fight in three layers – the pricing, the poli...
The ongoing natural gas war between Russia and the Ukraine, which although will likely be resolved soon, has lasted long enough to achieve the objective paradoxically sought by both Moscow and Kiev: it has scared the hell out of the European...
The Czech Republic took up the EU presidency this month – just in time to deal with a number of volatile Russian issues. The Czechs have dealt with plenty of their own volatile Russian issues in recent history, but anyone curious about...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has long been advocating the elimination of RosUkrEnergo, calling it a ‘criminal enterprise’ and linking it to corruption in the gas industry as far back as 2005. Now analysts are discuss...
Vladimir Putin’s insistence that Ukraine pay market prices for gas may sound reasonable, but it means an increase of at least 22% in Kiev’s gas bill for the year. Bulgaria, the country worst-affected by the gas cuts, has been for...
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