The New York Times editorial board has stepped forth on Russia’s veto of the U.N. resolution extending UNOMIG’s presence in Abkhazia in an opinion entitled “Small Minds in the Kremlin”. I’m going to do my best here to...
The jury apparently is in for now – a Treasury Department official says that the $134.5 billion of treasury bonds recently seized at the Swiss-Italian border are fakes. As much as I wish there was something more to this story, sadly, there i...
Robert Amsterdam is currently in Brazil, where he met yesterday with Senator and ex-President José Sarney, to discuss the plight of political prisoners in Venezuela, and in particular the case of Eligio Cedeño, a Venezuelan banker who has been lan...
Here’s another piece on Russia’s decision to give up on negotiations to join the World Trade Organization. The Economist says that not only has Russia ‘removed an easy concession that [Barack Obama] might have offered’...
As if Gazprom – for better or for worse – weren’t already enough of a national Russian treasure, Ria Novosti reports this week on what must be the most bizarre business move of the century. Lawmakers of Russia’s southern Si...
Dmitry Medvedev’s ambitious claiming of Russia as ‘the epicenter of world politics‘ during this week’s BRIC summit isn’t carrying much weight in the Western press, with many observers disparaging Russia’s role i...
Andrei Piontkovsky shares his opinions – and his alone – about the motivations behind the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. He says that it functions as a kind of insurance policy to keep President Dmitry Medvedev reigned in ...
A country that still hasn’t come back home from the war By Grigory Pasko, journalist “…The wizard in the light-blue helicopter has already arrived, the helicopter turned out to be military.” – Viktor Shenderovich. * *...
I am reading a lot about the events in Iran this week, and I thought this piece by Charles Kurzman in Foreign Policy cut through the fog, reminding us of the cottage industry of punditry that clouds and rarely enhances our understanding of these i...
Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in natural gas, which may lead to Gazprom taking out a loan from China to deliver LNG. Russia has delayed plans to build pipelines t...
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