Roland Oliphant reminds us that the fact that Yuri Luzhkov is under the screws and the fact that he is deeply unpopular – hated even – by many Muscovites, is completely coincidental and a non-factor in the Kremlin’s decision to g...
In a sign of expanding energy ties with Russia, oil producer Rosneft and China National Petroleum Corp. will build a $5 billion refinery in China. Talks on natural gas supplies may continue in 2011. A US official has reported that Iran...
A Reuters analysis wonders whether Vladimir Putin’s protectionist measures and defense of homegrown industrial heavyweights is somehow an attempt to jeopardize the country’s WTO bid. The Moscow Times reports on how Avtovaz has fo...
TODAY: Russia will respect weapons sanctions against Iran, but sees no end to military cooperation; Clinton pushing for closer ties with NATO. Russian youth death rate highest in Europe; second opposition coalition forms. Fears surface about...
By Vaaredi The highlight from news this week in Iran is the visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly by President Mahmud Ahmadi Nejad to meet with Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon. According to the newspaper Ettelat, this is th...
FoxNews.com interviews Robert Amsterdam on the repeated delays the U.S. administration has faced in getting Thailand to extradite reputed arms lord and friend-of-the-siloviki Viktor Bout. Don’t anybody hold their breath. But the celebr...
A Good Treaty has an interesting post discussing the winners and losers of the fantastically preposterous Luzhkov fiasco in Moscow. There’s a good argument that Medvedev looks good if he can put his signature on this firing, and an eve...
Since taking power this past February, the government of Viktor Yanukovych has slowly but surely been fulfilling most of its critics’ negative expectations: the courts have turned against the opponents of the ruling party with preposte...
Russia’s Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev has reportedly estimated that the country’s Arctic territories contain up to 100 billion tons of oil and gas, and the government is willing to spend up to $64 million on research proving...
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