Forget oil pipelines or arms deals, Russia’s influence in Latin America has hit another major financial nerve ending: casinos. As The Miami Herald reports, Russia’s Ritzio Entertainment Group manages a string of successful bingo halls ...
Remember the soldier who embarrassed commanders by disappearing from his unit and turning up in Georgia? A further report from Reuters documents the Russian military stating that the soldier, Alexander Glokhov, will not be punished if he gives him...
What, exactly, were the motivations behind Kyrgyzstan’s decision to kick the Americans out of Manas air base, a strategic military installation for the war in Afghanistan? In the days since the announcement, speculation has ranged from Russi...
The Chicago Tribune hits the streets with Russia’s discontented masses, including a cosmetics company manager who literally stopped her car on a busy road to join an anti-Kremlin protest. Says Sergei Guriev, rector of the New Economic School...
Rosatom will become the first supplier of nuclear fuel to India, after the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group, which was founded after India detonated a nuclear device in 1974, ended its boycott of the country. ‘Europe and Russia both a...
State-run banks could unite to co-manage toxic assets from borrowers who default on loans as a means of ‘cutting expenses’. Coal miner SUEK has secured a 9.66 billion rouble ($265.6 million) loan from state-controlled bank VTB.&n...
TODAY: Russia and US ‘in agreement’ on Afghanistan despite Kyrgyz base closure; Medvedev will not comment on Biden speech; more Georgia tensions; economists, opposition and presidential advisers displeased with government’s handl...
It was not the greatest speech and it was not the worst, but Vice President Joseph Biden’s declaration of principles on the U.S.-Russia relationship made during this weekend’s Munich security conference made clear that despite all the ...
The following is an article on the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine gas crisis by Andrew Wilson, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), which was originally published in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 27. Avoidin...
Mats Johansson, an MP from Sweden’s Moderate Party, has a brief comment up over at The Stockholm Observer about the security issues surrounding the passage of the Nord Stream pipeline through Swedish waters. Mr. Johansson kindly links ...
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