Blogging at the Power Vertical, Robert Coalson points out that the Russians may be disinclined from trying very hard to repair relations with Washington when there is so much to gain from anti-Americanism and the permanent fear of an outside enemy...
Dr. Theodore Postol of M.I.T. has an op/ed in the New York Times today arguing for an alternative to the missile defense shield planned for Poland and the Czech Republic. It seems all fine and good, but Postol is making the assumption that R...
Vladimir Putin says that Gazprom will not impose fines on Ukraine for the unpurchased gas it had been contracted to buy, as such a move would ‘deal the final blow’ on Ukraine’s economy. A scientist at a climate change confe...
Russia’s central bank is technically ready to re-introduce capital controls, should such a political decision be taken, but Russian legislation still prevents it. Russian Railways has received its first delivery of equipment for a $7.4...
TODAY: Kazakh President calls for new Eurasian currency; Russia moves to destroy chemical weapons; Council of Europe will not sanction Russia over human rights issues; opposition slogans under investigation; alcohol, poet charged with inciting hat...
A happy holiday to the successors of the GULAG Grigory Pasko, journalist Soon after 8 March [The Russian shorthand name for International Women’s Day–Trans.] in Russia there impends yet another holiday, about the existence of which our...
With little experience in dealing with the cruel and abrupt swing of commodity prices, the once arrogant and illicit petrostates, Russia and Venezuela, are quietly creeping back to the international oil companies (IOCs) hat in hand, asking for som...
From Cathy Young at Real Clear Politics: Khodorkovsky’s new trial, which opened last week, is based on charges far more sweeping and more absurd than the first one. He and co-defendant Platon Lebedev are accused of stealing all of the oil pu...
Yulia Latynina has a powerful opinion column in the Moscow Times today about the second show trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, driving home the point that back in 2003, “Putin and Khodorkovsky personified two possible paths for Russia’s d...
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