Though it doesn’t own the headlines like it used to, the political crisis in Moldova continues unabated, and deserves greater international attention. Here Arcadie Barbarosie and Igor Botan from Chisinau make the case for a U.S. role i...
Ukraine has apparently paid its May gas bill and expects an apology from Moscow about aspersions casts upon its ability to pay for gas supplies. Medvedev has counseled Ukraine to not look ‘offended’ when asked about insolvency bu...
At his speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Medvedev warned against over-optimism regarding the crisis, but also added that Russia has ‘overcome its problems more quickly than had perhaps been expected’....
TODAY: Kremlin downplays hopes of START breakthrough; Belarus won’t offer political support for money; Gorbachev argues need for perestroika on global level; Putin playing to the crowd, Medvedev left in the wings?; Litvinenko suspect to sit ...
The New York Times has a cool profile of Russian journalist Sergei Kanev, who fearlessly covers the crime beat for Novaya Gazeta: Bit by bit, in the Vladimir V. Putin era, the ranks of people willing to hold the powerful to account are thinning. T...
Mikhail Gorbachev has some advice for the United States in today’s Washington Post (also see Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s very similar “global perestroika“): Elements of such a model already exist in some countries. Having reject...
We have been hearing about this interview with President Dmitry Medvedev for a few days now, and I think that Maria Bartiromo really zeroes on some of the most important questions, such as whether or not foreign capital can be protected. Ans...
Once in a while the President of Russia says things that are indisputably convincing: Since the crisis broke last year, however, the government has bailed out some major conglomerates that were highly leveraged, accepting shares as collateral in e...
Here’s an interesting tidbit from the Wall Street Journal: Vladimir Putin is used to taking flak from rivals in the former Soviet Union. Now he has to deal with opposition from a more unlikely location: Greenwich, Conn. Two months ago the Wa...
Despite Vladimir Putin holding a meeting to discuss the Ukraine gas problem as the deadline for paying their bill approaches, ‘the situation remains unresolved’. The European Commission will send a team to Moscow and Kiev on a &#...
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