Robert Amsterdam is interviewed here by a Radio National (ABC) program in Australia. Business optimism high in Russia Reporter: Mark Colvin MARK COLVIN: For some with long memories, there have been echoes of the Cold War in Russia’s behaviou...
Senator John McCain gives us a taste of how the 2008 presidential elections are going to impact the Russia policy debate in the United States. As far back as January, McCain came forward to criticize Russia’s use of the energy weapon. Why we...
In a Stratfor analysis piece, George Friedman discusses the symbolic importance of the missile shield trumping the actual security aspect, and argues that Russia may see more geopolitical benefit in provoking a second Kosovo crisis (see excerpts b...
[This is Pasko’s second installment in the series. Part I can be read here] Media Relations, Gazprom Style By Grigory Pasko, journalist Because I didn’t have the foggiest notion about what “construction of the Gryazovets-Vyborg gas branch” w...
During his tour through Australia, Robert Amsterdam was featured in this article in the daily newspaper The Age: Call to condemn Russia over human rights An international human rights lawyer is calling on the Australian government to impose strict...
From the Moscow Times: The 1,400 members of the press were herded about in small groups by sometimes catty chaperones. “Don’t leave my side,” one of them told her gaggle of reporters. “If you are seen walking around alone i...
Happy Day of the Adoption of the Declaration of Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, otherwise known by the less cumbersome title, Russia Day! The holiday was first declared by Boris Yeltsin to commemorate the Duma’s first declaration of s...
[Editor’s note: the following is a first in the series of new articles from our blog correspondent Grigory Pasko, who has travelled to the north of Russia to follow the proposed route of the North European Gas Pipeline – a controversia...
From John O’Sullivan in the Chicago Sun-Times: Such people are naturally sympathetic to Bush because he has spoken out forcefully in support of democracy and human rights. They gave him a thunderously warm reception. He returned the complime...
Anne Applebaum observes that the different ways in which the media in each G8 country played up the results of the G8 conference shows that there is no longer any international consensus that terrorism is the #1 priority problem. I am exaggerating...
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