A rather important op/ed from Henry Kissinger in the IHT today. I had always suspected that Bush’s exceedingly friendly reception for Putin at Kennebunkport was aimed at increasing cooperation on the Iran issue (which I believe is starting t...
The lede paragraph from Marc Champion’s article on the Georgia-Russia missile story in today’s Wall Street Journal speaks volumes: Georgia’s demand for a special United Nations Security Council session on Russian missiles dropped...
A small round of congratulations are in order. Below, with Derek Brower’s think piece on resource nationalism, my blog has finally hit 1,000 posts in just a little over 11 months since inception! We also have 473 German language articles and...
For a solution to resource nationalism, it’s time to look closer to home By Derek Brower, journalist SO YOU don’t like the way your dealer treats you? You think he’s a bully? He doesn’t respect you? And you simply can’t trust him? Well then stop b...
Well, it’s been another wonderful week in Russian disinformation. Today the big news is that the Moscow City Court has granted the Interior Ministry’s request to seize 100% of shares of the oil company Russneft and continue with the cr...
In a column published in the International Herald Tribune, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and Current President of the EU-Russia Centre Paddy Ashdown reminds us that the West need not lecture Russia about democracy, but rather simply ask t...
Today the Financial Times and other media sources are reporting that Oleg Deripaska acquired close to a 5% stake in General Motors worth more than $900 million last year. Last October, when rumors of this stake first circulated, Deripaska’s ...
Today from Reuters: “Another theory circulating in the media is that the next president will have plenty of hair on his head. This is based on an analysis of Russian history since revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin: Kremlin leaders who are ...
Former Russian Spy Oleg Kalugin says he had a change of heart about the KGB when he was transferred to the domestic service. Below are a few excerpts from an interview by the magazine Foreign Policy with the Washington DC-based former KGB senior o...
The attached short letter from Robert Amsterdam was published in the Globe and Mail on August 4. Polar Bear Warning ROBERT AMSTERDAM Amsterdam & Peroff LLP August 4, 2007 Toronto — In response to your editorial (Pushing Ahead On The Arc...
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