Bolivian President Evo Morales is on his first visit to Russia, hoping to win investments in natural resources exploration. ExxonMobil, which operates the Sakhalin-1 project, has reportedly ‘clashed with the government’, because ...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said that the main stage of ruble devaluation is ‘over’, as its current rate of 34.56 to the dollar reflects its real purchasing power, although the currency did weaken slightly against the dollar this mo...
TODAY: Medvedev’s fireside chat offers to trade loyalty for transparency and insists the economy is stable; more Moscow protests; veterans mark 20 years since Soviet troops pulled out of Afghanistan; alcohol on flights, bear hunting.In the f...
Actually that headline is a little misleading … the polls are pretty close right now to be predicting very much, and not even Hugo Chávez himself seems to know what he might do next. Nevertheless I’ve got a new piece up over at V...
Crazy days are definitely upon us: Bolivia is turning to Russia to help fight its war against coca production. (This after expelling the American ambassador for Washington’s alleged “conspiracy” against the Bolivian government an...
More than two dozen U.S. lawmakers have sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton encouraging the extradition of Viktor Bout from Thailand, where he was arrested last year in a DEA-orchestrated sting, to ...
This is the question asked in one TNR article, and answered, or at least attempted, in an amusing piece by Andrew Biliter over at the new blog for RUSSIA! magazine. Recommended. We called a source in the Russian PR industry to help put the p...
Human rights abuses in Turkmenistan, Central Asia’s largest gas producer as a presumed primary contributor to the proposed Nabucco pipeline, are just as prolific under a new president as they were under Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled the coun...
For some time now, it has seemed as though the Russian foreign policy decision making process has been guided by some very simple principles – 1) will this given measure make things more difficult for Washington, and/or 2) will it increase t...
The GULAG and its rules Grigory Pasko, journalist I want to apologize to alert readers right from the start: I have no doubt that some of the examples I’m about to give are going to appear familiar to them. The fact is that on this topic ...
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