From an op/ed by Arnaud de Borchgrave in the Washington Times: The reasons behind Russian President Vladimir Putin’s increasingly hostile attitude toward the Bush administration are becoming clearer. To understand them in their proper contex...
Tomorrow will mark the 20th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s famous speech given at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, one of the most important events in bringing an end to the Cold War. Revisiting Reagan’s remarks from this...
On Sunday, Vladimir Putin addressed about 100 chief executives at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, where events quickly took a turn toward the surreal as Jeroen van der Veer of Royal Dutch Shell, the poster child of a business d...
From this weekend’s FT: With nine months left before he is due to step down, the world is still groping to answer the question that has been posed throughout the former KGB colonel’s seven-year presidency: “Who is Mr Putin?”...
Greetings from the land of the rising sun. As I come to the end of a week-long stay in Tokyo, Japan, I thought I would put down some of my thoughts and impressions from this trip. This week I’ve participated in several speaking platforms, intervie...
A relatively new report has been released by the French Institute on International Relations (L’Institut français des relations internationales – IFRI) containing an interesting analysis of the corruption underscoring Gazprom’s relatio...
RIA Novosti reports that the Moscow Bar Association has refused to disbar Karinna Moskalenko, who faced charges of “failing to defend” Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Qualifications panel refuses to disbar Khodorkovsky lawyer MOSCOW, June 8 (RIA...
Who Needs Radioactive Waste? By Grigory Pasko, journalist In Angarsk Early this year, I spent some time in Angarsk, a small Siberian town just west of Lake Baikal, about 60 kilometers down the Angara River from Irkutsk. I was interested in the Ang...
Joseph Nye in the Boston Globe: Yet these tensions also create an opportunity. We should offer Russia a grand bargain: We would delay our plans for missile defense in Eastern Europe, while the Russians would agree to back stronger sanctions agains...
From Fred Kaplan on Slate: A president tends to make categorical statements only when his truth is in doubt. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” “I am not a crook.” “The state of the union is sound.”...
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