TODAY: Medvedev winning good press on response to terorrism; interview draws attention to high mortality rates and poor conditions in prisons; Obama homes arms treaty with Russia will improve relations; Latynina sides with Chichvarkin over mother&...
My latest dispatch on the Huffington Post discusses the trip of U.S. President Barack Obama to Prague, Czech Republic this week to sign a treaty with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to replace the expired START-1 pact. The treaty is ...
In preparation for this week’s trial testimony of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, defense lawyers Yuri Schmidt, Vadim Klyuvgant, Natalia Terekhova, Elena Liptser and Konstantin Rivkin held a press conference I was able to attend at the editorial offic...
Mark Brzezinski and A Wess Mitchell have published an interesting guest op/ed in the International Herald Tribune which underscores the importance of deepening U.S. and Central European ties during the upcoming signing of the “Prague Treaty&...
Anne Applebaum takes a stab at explaining Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s sudden change of heart to improve relations with Poland, and recognize the Katyn massacre of 1940. It is certainly not hard to understand why a 70-year-old probl...
ConocoPhillips is poised to launch the first shale gas drilling program in Poland next month, which is thought to have vast reserves of the gas. ExxonMobil, Marathon, and Talisman Energy are set to follow suit, as new shale gas production te...
Russia’s economy expanded last quarter for the first time since 2008, and inflation is at a 12-year low. Kazakhstan and Belarus may pull out of a pact with Russia, designed to boost trade and the WTO accession process, after both saw p...
TODAY: Ingushetia double bombings still unclaimed; new law bans media from printing terrorists’ statements; Khodorkovsky article investigated for ‘extremism’; drivers protest against flashing blue lights of government cars; prote...
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