An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal urges U.S. policymakers not to allow Russia to use empty threats to gain leverage. Given that the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty is thoroughly outdated, and that Russia’s withdraw seems...
There’s nothing sinister about Sonatrach’s alliance with Gazprom, says Algeria’s energy minister Algerian energy minister Chakib Khelil has played down the significance of Gazprom’s alliance with Sonatrach, insisting it has nothi...
Nicholas Eberstadt, an AEI scholar, makes a very reasonable call upon Europe and the United States to help Russia with an international campaign to improve health care, prevention and public safety measures, and help decrease the country’s e...
The Sunday Herald has published a long feature article which weighs the legacy of the Putin era. The charge sheet against Putin is, however, a long one. Since he assumed the Russian presidency on the last day of the last century, at least 20 journ...
La Russophobe has provided another valuable translation of an article by Andrei Illarionov. The translation of this series can be viewed here. The Authoritarian Model of Governance: Preliminary Results Andrei Illiarionov April 2, 2007 Kommersant (...
In a Week in Review column in today’s New York Times, Steven Lee Myers gives some analysis to the Kremlin’s decision to pull out all the stops and provide Boris Yeltsin with a lavish State funeral, and lionize him as the founder of Rus...
The recent saber rattling by the Kremlin is the beginning of the succession rhapsody. As stated in earlier postings, VVP has determined that color revolutions are best avoided by the definition of a common enemy. One day it is the Georgians, the n...
The French Elections By the Polittechnologist A couple of days ago Bob Amsterdam called and asked why I haven’t written anything in a long time. I told him it was because there was nothing going on. And this is true – what’s going on right now in ...
I just read on David McDuff’s blog that Russian reporter Yelena Tregubova has applied for asylum in the United Kingdom. A while back Grigory Pasko wrote about how Tregubova had been in hiding for her own safety.
[This obituary was written by an anonymous contributor to the blog, who as a young musician had the distinct honor of personally meeting the great Russian master.] In his prime, Mstislav Rostropovich, the greatest cellist of his time, played like ...
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