On his Russian tour, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has already visited the Bureyskaya hydro-electric power station in Amur, Russia’s largest, fueling speculation of energy deals to come. Pakistan has eased the conditions for companies supplying...
The former president of the Bank of Moscow, Andrei Borodin (currently wanted by the authorities), says that the Kremlin’s buyout of the bank was ‘an extremely inefficient use of state resources’ and ‘an insane waste of money’. How embarrassing: t...
TODAY: Kim Jong-Il arrives in Russia; Mayor of Sergiev Posad shot dead; Matviyenko wins both municipal elections; Rogozhin’s nationalist group registered; Putin’s push for disability rights; police to take lie-detector tests; medical drug addicts;...
In blogging terms, this is ancient history (published yesterday), but the always-sharp Julia Ioffe has a great breakdown in the New Yorker of why the 20th anniversary of the 1991 Soviet coup against Gorbachev which led to the unraveling of the USS...
Things have been pretty grim in Syria for many weeks now, deteriorating even further from earlier in the five-month-long repression. Depending on what numbers you are consulting, the death toll from the government crackdowns has reached as high a...
Things have been pretty grim in Syria for many weeks now, deteriorating even further from earlier in the five-month-long repression. Depending on what numbers you are consulting, the death toll from the government crackdowns has reached as high a...
The Islamist terror group known as Boko Haram is flourishing in Northern Nigeria, and allegedly reaching out far and wide to network with sophisticated terrorism outfits. But what are the driving factors behind this increase in violence, and what ...
The Islamist terror group known as Boko Haram is flourishing in Northern Nigeria, and allegedly reaching out far and wide to network with sophisticated terrorism outfits. But what are the driving factors behind this increase in violence, and what ...
We found these comments from Martin Indyk at Brookings Institution very interesting regarding the effectiveness and coherence of U.S. foreign policy amid an especially bitter and hard fought campaign season. If the parties are willing to throw th...
We found these comments from Martin Indyk at Brookings Institution very interesting regarding the effectiveness and coherence of U.S. foreign policy amid an especially bitter and hard fought campaign season. If the parties are willing to throw th...
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