I still haven’t heard a completely satisfactory answer to this question, but Stephen Sestanovich at CFR is getting warmer. As the killing in Kyrgyzstan escalated, some American analysts feared that Moscow saw disorder there as a chance...
Some people are not so impressed by Medvedev’s idea to build a Silicon Valley at Skolkovo. Vladimir Babkin, an expert at the State Duma’s committee for science and technology, says the Skolkovo-Silicon Valley analogy is flawed from the...
In early 2007 the Vladivostok newspaper Konkurent published an article under the headline “Putin and the price of the question,” which dealt with the preparations to host the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2012 forum. The ne...
Gas tensions are fully flaring: Gazprom has increased the cut on supplies to Belarus to 60% of normal volumes. Belarus is reportedly threatening to halt transit to Europe, with President Alexander Lukashenko demanding that the Russian export...
‘My advice to U.S. technology companies is to steer clear of Russia because it’s insanity to go there’: Bill Browder is having none of Medvedev’s investor incentives. The President has been tweeting from Silicon Valle...
TODAY: How damning OCSE report on Caucasus rights record received Russian backing; Nashi youth camp for region; Nemtsov takes Luzhkov complaint to Strasbourg; Medvedev’s first meeting with Obama puts politics back on the agenda after innovat...
Mark Medish has a thoughtful column in the International Herald Tribune which gets right at the central question being debated during this week’s visit by President Medvedev to Washington: Is Russia’s current pro-Western rhetoric...
Robert Amsterdam blogs on the Huffington Post about the upcoming elections in Guinea later this month – expected to be the very first free and fair contest in the country’s post-independence history. Many readers will recall that...
Dear readers … this is just a quick announcement to let you know that Bob’s blogging on Thailand will now be located over here, while this main page will go back to mainly Russia content.
Gas supplies to Belarus have been cut by a further 15% today, in addition to yesterday’s 15% cut. Apparently the country plans to pay off its debts within two weeks. Two weeks is too long to wait, says Sergei Kupriyanov. &nb...
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