Here are some disturbing developments. The president of Russia has indirectly suggested that the United States could potentially be interested in invading the country to capture control of its energy, and for this reason, the federation needs to a...
Today during Russia’s version of “Aló Presidente” (a live broadcast call-in show where regular Russian citizens ask the president questions), Vladimir Putin compared himself to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It isnR...
Here’s a startling picture: Today President Vladimir Putin demanded that the Americans name a pullout date from Iraq, while at the same time President George Bush is fighting to cling to his “political relevance” against a Democr...
After 15 years abroad, the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has returned to Russia to formerly declare his bid for the presidency. Bukovsky, who spent many years in labor camps and psychiatric institutions, played an instrumental role in alertin...
More than a million Russians have applied to quiz Putin in a live question-and-answer session on Thursday that he holds annually to show he is in touch with the nation, the organizers said. (Caren Firouz/Reuters) President Vladimir Putin today beg...
From the FT story “Russia attacks Estonia over pipeline survey” Russia yesterday accused Estonia, its small Baltic Sea neighbour, of “rudeness” and violation of a United Nations maritime convention by refusing permission for a seabed s...
From the Wall Street Journal: The Putin Touch October 17, 2007; Page A18 Vladimir Putin paid Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a visit yesterday, the first Russian leader to hit Tehran since Joseph Stalin in 1943. But let’s not get too carried away by the...
A proposal to import Central Asian oil into eastern Europe and break the region’s dependence on Russian crude faces the same old problems Derek Brower, journalist FOR politicians in Poland and the Baltics, it seems like a wonderful idea. If Russia...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Turkmenistan’s President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev (R-L) p...
Tomorrow at 2:00 PM (EST), the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology is holding a hearing on the Yukos affair with my colleague Tim Osborne, Anders Åslund and others. You can tun...
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