TODAY: Kyrgyz President announces intention to close US air base, although still in talks with US; closure could hinder Obama’s foreign policy aims with Russia; Belarus signs air defense pact with Russia; EU commissioners to meet in Moscow o...
The gas war: real peace or just a cease-fire? By Boris Sokolov The Russian-Ukrainian gas war appears to be over. Agreements have been signed about the procurement by Ukraine of Russian gas and about its transit to Europe through Ukrainian territor...
The reactions to the Davos hostilities are still rolling in. Compared to ideologies and values, we still don’t think that the simple sharing of mutual enemies is a cohesive force in global relations. From John Thornhill at the Fi...
Forget our sense of the economic doldrums, the crashing and burning ruble, or even the relatively low level of trust in doing business with Russia following a military war, a gas war, and a war of words at Davos. Things are looking peachy, a...
Here’s an interesting exchange from the circus at Davos from Anna Ershova, who points out that something got lost in translation (my gratitude to Veronica Khokhlova for the link): Dell asks the very obviously annoyed Putin: “How can we...
Editor’s note: On 10 December of last year, less than a week after the death of the incumbent Patriarch of All the Russias, Alexiy II, our Russia Correspondent Grigory Pasko made a bold prediction, inconspicuously tucked away in a corn...
BP has had a legendarily bad experience with its investments in Russia, but in some ways this has been a direct result of its decision to jump into a high stakes political game. Various news media are reporting on the company’s fall in...
Robert Kagan is pretty worried about the new administration cutting defense spending. From the Washington Post: The Obama administration is right to want to begin negotiations with Russia over missile defense and arms control. But it is a poor ope...
Russia’s gas dispute with Ukraine last month caused a 10% drop in production. ‘It has become cliche to say that the latest natural-gas row between Russia and Ukraine should be a wake-up call for the EU in its sluggish struggle to...
Russia and Belarus are expected to approve a package of joint anti-crisis measures, together with an agreement on the joint protection of the Union State airspace and the creation of an integrated regional air-defense system, at today’s Unio...
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