Writing in the Australian paper The National, Roger Stern and Bernard Haykel see the current situation in Iran as similar to the twilight of the Soviet Union: Next, the kingdom should reprise its greatest peacemaking performance: the 1986 oil pric...
Over the weekend Owen Matthews published a preemptive political obituary of President Dmitry Medvedev in Newsweek, pointing out that all of the problems that he has tried (and mostly failed) to confront in Russian society were specifically made by...
The Streetwise Professor has a sharp post on Vladimir Putin’s recent welcoming party to foreign investors in the Arctic energy sector (which was done with a flair of deadpan comedy). Really it’s the same old story starting over a...
It’s funny how in back-to-back Russian show trials, the documents used to convict someone in the first, turn out to be exculpatory in the second. Naturally they can’t be located now. From the Associated Press: Khodorkovsky ...
Gazprom is set to bid for gas and oil fields in Iraq with Turkey’s state-run oil company Turkish Petroleum Corporation. Rosneft, Lukoil and Gazprom Neft will also participate in bids. Venezuela’s Science and Technology Mini...
Ria-Novosti reports that first deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov believes the path towards a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan is clear. Bank of America Corp. has increased Russia’s economic growth forecast for 2010 to 3.9% f...
TODAY: Clinton pleased with Russia cooperation; Lavrov suggests caution on Iran’s second nuclear site; put out by West’s withholding of intelligence reports. Medvedev clarifies Iskander position. Violence continues to boil ...
I think that Rob Coalson at RFE/RL makes some good points here. The missile shield was a non-functional fiasco, but the diplomatic missteps which have so severely damaged relations with Eastern Europe are certainly not worth the expected hel...
A very interesting if not controversial article from Luke Harding makes the argument that we are seeing continuity in foreign policy toward Russia under both Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel. In my experience, the change has been night and...
Run-of-the-mill lawlessness Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. There probably isn’t any statistical data out there about what quantity of Chechens has been convicted by R...
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