It’s a pretty good question: why on earth would Russia seek to ban, limit or otherwise obstruct international election monitors if the incumbent party were expected to win a landslide election anyways? Is this just a stubborn demonstration o...
(Photo: AFP) Today the FT published their 2007 Energy supplement, which includes a plethora of important information on the energy industry and the geopolitics of security of supply. The newspaper is quite timely with this report, coinciding with ...
SRB has posted a translation of a letter from Mikhail Khodorkovsky which was leaked to Ekho Moskvy, in which he comments on the elections. The story made the news in France and Germany, but in English I haven’t seen anything besides this AFP...
Today Robert Amsterdam has a by-lined article published in the Financial Times about energy security, as part of the Energy 2007 special supplement. Rolling over to Kremlin’s manipulation By Robert Amsterdam Published: November 9 2007 04:36 | Last...
The Energy Charter Treaty could resolve the impasse between Europe and Russia. So why won’t the Commission endorse it? By Derek Brower, journalist EUROPE’s muddle on energy policy gets worse by the month. After two years of steadily declining rela...
Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with leaders of Russia’s Muslim community in Moscow’s Kremlin November 8, 2007. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/KREMLIN (RUSSIA) Police have seized 14 million copies of the Union of Right Forces’ officially...
Yesterday I published a post on Russia’s moratorium of the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty. Today I received many emails about it, and below I share one comment from a close, unnamed Russian colleague: The suspension is not about ratifi...
This is a pretty good one from the Economist, which finally gets around to writing about the Kremlin-approved history manual for public schools. See some original translations here and here. “The attitude towards the past is the central element of...
Do you believe in miracles? I hope so, because a Dutch site and some other political blogs are really beating us out by a large margin over at the 2007 Weblog Awards. Please stop by and vote again, as we would be grateful for your support and woul...
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