Robert Gates, the bridge between the Bush and Obama presidencies, is not very worried about Russia. From the Washington Post: A longtime Russia analyst during his years with the CIA, Gates today sees Moscow as less of a threat than do many i...
We’re looking forward to reading this new political risk blog The Call, launched by Foreign Policy and written by Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group. In the inaugural post, Bremmer sets forth four reasons why political risk is going to becom...
Michael Fitzsimmons has an interesting review of The New Great Game by Lutz Kleveman, breaking down the polemics of negotiating the best supply route, both politically and economically, to tap into the considerable oil desposits in the Caspian reg...
The following is the latest contribution from solicitor Anthony Rose from his “Conversations with Penfold” series on British and European politics. Read his earlier contributions here. Conversations with Penfold: The Waste Land B...
Oil prices rose nearly 3% today after an Iranian military commander reportedly called for an oil boycott over Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip and on worries over the deepening Russian gas supply row. Last month’s steep plung...
TODAY: Ukraine gas cuts affecting the supply of seven EU countries; Russia calling for Gaza ceasefire; navy to station warships all over the world; opposition newspaper offices hit by fire; US-Russia adoption slammed by United Russia.The Czech Rep...
Garry Kasparov jots down a few epiphanies in the magazine Foreign Policy. We think the last one is the best. I REMEMBER one of the guards followed me to the roof [of the jail] where I was walking, and he asked me, ‘How is it that a man...
We are enjoying Robert Coalson’s new gig over at the Huffington Post. This is from the latest: The problem is not only the crisis, but the fact that the Putin political/economic system in Russia has no flexibility and only a tiny fract...
Anna Nemtsova interviews Yuri Schmidt of the Mikhail Khodorkovsky defense team over on Newsweek: A crisis-stricken Kremlin is courting Western investors, and activists hope this may lead to the release of high-profile political prisoners, like the...
The Economist believes that soon the Russian government will have to pay the piper for all the bullying and stealing of years past – but whether or not this improves relations is by no means guaranteed. The West may not have much leverage ov...
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