Putin has revisited the proposal of a new unified property tax, which would reduce the price of costly real estate and bolster local government budgets during the crisis. The ruble has risen to a three-month high against the dollar as oil re...
TODAY: US flexible on delivery vehicle reduction; 10,000 troops apparently in Georgia breakaway regions; EU looks for stability in eastern bloc; Medvedev proposes piracy court; number of pilots tumbling The US is reportedly ready to reduce their n...
Just when I thought I was all done posting video interviews from my last trip to Washington, I saw Bob’s post today about the Gary Hart and Dmitri Simes article about realism, interests, and the prospects for cooperation between the Obama Ad...
Looking back, 2007 was a fine year. A fat year, thanks to petrodollars, with a barrel of Russian oil selling for 120 dollars in futures trading. Russian oligarchs were beginning to lose their minds from all the wealth and luxury. As we say in Russ...
There’s a new think piece in the National Interest by former Senator Gary Hart and Dmitri K. Simes of Nixon Center about the new efforts to improve the U.S.-Russia relationship. As may be expected, Hart and Simes put forward a realist ...
There’s a piece today in the Financial Times about some modest signs that commodity demand may be picking up to help the Ukrainian economy get itself out of the gutter – though the rough times appear to be far from over. What cau...
Somebody out there in academia should really do a study of how various authoritarian states throughout history have continued to organize elections, despite a glaring lack of democracy. For some, the election has always been an exercise in m...
EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalga has warned against overdramatizing the Russia-Ukraine gas transit issue, following Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin’s comments about the risks that remain in guaranteeing gas exports. Production ...
According to a Reuters poll, analysts have suggested that GDP will drop by 4.7% this year and growth is unlikely to return by the end of the year. Dmitry Medvedev has pledged to increase social spending in some areas in the 2010-2011 budget....
TODAY: Troops begin controversial Georgia border control; EU fears Russia not a ‘reliable partner’; Medvedev’s first year analyzed; Russians unimpressed by income anti-corruption drive; democracy dwindling but economy bolstered i...
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