A good response to Robert Kaplan’s recent pining for the comforts of ideological clarity of the Cold War is published on RCW’s Compass blog. Today’s international environment, as Kaplan eludes to, is quite different. American pow...
Rosatom’s uranium-mining unit has won approval to purchase a control stake in Canada’s Uranium One Inc, which effectively could give it control over half of US uranium production, Bloomberg reports. The Algerian government is hol...
A pirated software investigation against environmental group Baikal Environmental Wave that ‘all but paralyzed its operations‘ has been dismissed after Microsoft said it would not support the case – apparently a direct attempt to...
TODAY: Crash-landing plane kills 2; satellites crash into Pacific; Putin held secret talks with FIFA heads, source alleges; Khimki opposition editor dies of cancer; Medvedev in Poland; corruption website to track suspicious tenders; UK MP denies a...
France24 has a great interview and translation from lawyer, shareholder activist, and blogger Alexei Navalny: Other Transneft minority shareholders and I were trying to find out what made the construction so expensive when we discovered a truly as...
Vladimir Putin helpfully suggests / requests / instructs / threatens Roman Abramovich with the task of funding Russia’s multi-billion dollar World Cup infrastructure, half of which no doubt will be lost to corruption. From the Guardian...
Some people are annoyed and even furious by each successive wave of cables released by WikiLeaks. Writing in the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer even suggested that founder Julian Assange deserved to be assassinated by a poison dart, a ...
This opinion from Ingo Mannteufel of Deutsche Welle strikes me as amusingly naive, but given that so many Russian football fans are ecstatic over the news of the 2018 World Cup, I think it’s OK to indulge in a few moments of fantasy that thi...
Bashneft’s winning bid for the Trebs and Titov oil fields (it was the only bidder), which could boost its reserves by 70%, was $587 million higher than the starting price, says Bloomberg. Is Russia’s carbon trading market finally...
It is thought that 9% of winter grain sowings were damaged by dry soil. Russia’s FIFA bid win ‘is great news for steel companies and transport and construction names‘. Vladimir Putin thinks Roman Abramovich should pit...
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