So yet again this blog, or more specifically my role as editor here, has received another lashing at the hands of an angry blogger, this time our friend AK at Sublime Oblivion. I first read the attack yesterday without much thought or reacti...
I wonder if this kind of circular spy logic is a thing of the past, or rather the hushed conversations in Kiev over the past year. From Malcolm Galdwell’s latest in the New Yorker. The absurdity of such expression games has been wittil...
The Moscow Times reports that Russia is holding on to the top spot for oil production, pumping out over 10 million barrels a day for the eight month in a row. Bloomberg reports that demand for OPEC oil is set to wane as Russia, China, the US...
Novolipetsk Steel Chairman Vladimir Lisin has told the Moscow Times that stimulating production in the face of overtight regulations is Russia’s biggest challenge. Russian private investment bank Renaissance Capital is anticipating dou...
TODAY: US-Russia adoption issues remain thorny; Sochi land seizures apparently ‘resolved’; Ukrainian journalists protest; message of trust for Poland from Putin. Plea from Georgian ambassador to UK to Abkhazia; has Lukashenko ove...
Joshua Foust, one of our favorite Central Asia bloggers over at Registan.net, has begun dropping in more regularly on Steve Levine’s Oil and Glory – this time reviewing Boris Volodarsky’s book on KGB/GRU/FSB obsession with poison...
Over on the Guardian website, there is an article from a member of the Georgian government, which recommends that Tbilisi and Abkhazia seek to improve relations by setting up free trade zones, better roads, and education cooperation in local langu...
It’s always fun to pay attention to what kinds of official gifts are exchanged between countries and heads of state. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, for example, is very fond of giving visiting dignitaries a replica of the sword of Simo...
Below is a press release regarding our latest client, the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, which is being distributed via wire globally today. Please stay tuned to this blog for further news, commentary and information about the Tha...
Vladimir Putin has prompted outcry in Ukraine after he expressed in an ‘impromptu way’ the idea of a ‘merger’ between Naftogaz Ukrainy and Gazprom, which would place Ukraine’s pipelines under Russian control (wi...
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