The Financial Times has given a pretty glowing review of “Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky” by Bertrand Patenaude The most damning indictment that Patenaude levels against Trotsky is his intellectual dishone...
Over the weekend I had read the reports about the bitter “milk war” going on between Russia and Belarus, which is actually just one of many food-related trade disputes we’ve seen in recent months (see also the confusing ban on U....
Recently the Russian industrial town of Pikalyovo exploded in protests over unemployment and wage arrears – prompting Putin to fly in for a big media visit, which involved a public dressing down of Kremlin loyalist businessman Oleg Deripaska...
One of the biggest paper mills in Russia has raised approximately $2.1 billion in the past six years as a reward for following the Kyoto agreement to reduce its carbon dioxide, but it has not seen a penny, says the Moscow Times. Surgutnefteg...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has said that he believes the dollar is in ‘good shape’ and does not need to be replaced as a global reserve currency. Russia will not ‘significantly’ change the structure of its reserv...
TODAY: ‘Milk war’ steps up a notch; Lukashenko absent from security summit in Moscow; rapid reaction force agreed upon at CSTO meeting; Kremlin hopes for larger role in Afghanistan resolution; third killing in North Caucasus in week of...
I’m a few days behind on this as I’ve been busy with other parts of this website, but there have been a number of developments since my post last week regarding how Russia discusses its currency maneuvers. The specific language used he...
The extension of United Nations monitoring in Abkhazia is still unsettled, due to a disagreement over wording in the resolution. The most that Reuters could pry from U.N. diplomats was the following: U.N. special representative Johan Verbeke did n...
London-based Exclusive Analysis offers their insights to Reuters on the immediate outlook for the oil and mining sectors in Russia. Among the highlights: Rosneft and Transneft are likely to have the most trouble meeting their debt obligations, tho...
Roger E. Kanet of the University of Miami has published a new 30-page paper on U.S.-Russian relations entitled “From Cooperation to Confrontation: Russia and the United States since 9/11.” He’s assembled quite a laundry lis...
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