Michael Stott at Reuters provides some good commentary on the Obama administration’s decision to formerly pull all plans for the missile shield in Eastern Europe. It’s funny how we have found ourselves in a situation with an unne...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has described the current oil price as ‘overheated’ and and said that he expects a correction in three to six months. Vladimir Putin has solicited the support of Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Ras...
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov is quietly optimistic that ‘a slow and cautious recovery is under way’. Shuvalov has predicted that the economy could return to its pre-crisis state by 2012 and does not envisage circumst...
TODAY: US to modify or jettison missile defense plans? NATO chief to meet with Russian envoy; Lukaschenko sends out mixed messages. South Ossetia denies book burning; think tank leader says Putin could be heading for Brehznev-style dec...
Robert Amsterdam has an opinion article published in The Moscow Times today: The recent visits to Moscow and Tehran by Hugo Chavez raise a number of concerns about the deepening relations between Russia, Iran and Venezuela. The motivation behind t...
I’ve finally gotten around to looking more closely at the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report, released last week. The report ranks 133 countries on the basis of 12 measures of an economy’s competitiveness...
Fresh off a deal with Venezuela, Russia’s weapons maker appears to have its next willing customer in Saudi Arabia. First reported in English language press on August 29 (Interfax via Bloomberg), we now have significantly more detail on the s...
Coming to this a few days late – the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy account last week of Sibir Energy and its beleaguered top shareholder, former real estate magnate Chalva Tchigirinsky. There’s not a lot new here to anyone wh...
There are a number of media outlets reporting on the most recent NATO-Russia foxtrot, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s call for an “open-minded and unprecedented dialogue” with Russia. Personally, I’d first ra...
At the end of August, I telephoned the well-known Kazakh human rights advocate Yevgeny Zhovtis and asked how things were going on “the front” with the criminal case that had been opened in relation to him. Yevgeny replied that in conne...
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