Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is apparently ‘astonished’ to hear that Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, asked NATO and the US to deploy troops in Europe to provide ‘some strategic reassuranceR...
Details are beginning to emerge about the the two suspects held on suspicion of gunning down fearless human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta intern Anastasia Baburova on January 19th this year. It appears that one of the pa...
Apparently U.N. inspectors have found ‘nothing to be worried about‘ upon their first examination of the formerly clandestine uranium enrichment site in Qom in Iran. ‘The [Obama] administration must consider whether it makes...
‘We will have to take into account this style of dealing with partners in the future, though this scornful approach toward partners mainly affects the Europeans, not us’: Putin reacts to the aborted GM deal. Finance Minist...
TODAY: Markelov murder suspect reportedly confesses; vengeance a possible motive? Activist abducted in Moscow. Spy chief issues warning on Georgia; Lavrov surprised at Poland soliciting US help. Medvedev reserves army use for eme...
Ariel Cohen and Richard Ericson have a new paper discussing Russia’s economic crisis and its relations with the United States. I would encourage reading this paper in full as it hits on all the major factors relevant to Russia’s econom...
Walter Laqueur of the Center for Strategic and International Studies has a very thought-provoking new paper out entitled “Russia’s Muslim Strategy“. It’s quite a bit to digest, as there are obviously a number of subplots to...
This story broke last week but I’m only getting to it now as I wanted to find a full transcript of the text, which I haven’t had the time to do until now. The full transcript is here. There is far too much to suitably quote or comment ...
Does the slashing of the GM deal mean Putin is getting a taste of his own medicine? This is from Streetwise Professor : The decision of GM’s board to maintain control of Opel touched off howls of protest from Germany-and Vladimir Putin...
The Kremlin has, for a long time, sponsored clampdowns of various forms on the use of the Internet. As a free flowing source of information in a country where the government likes its press regulated, it is hardly surprising that the Kremlin...
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