With the Democrat’s loss of House majority this week, some eager and angry representatives have their eyes set on dismantling the replacement START treaty. From Josh Rogin on FP’s The Cable: Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), one of three R...
Der Spiegel breaks a big story: Central Asia is still important. Just because Washington has given up on the region doesn’t mean that Russia, China, and Europe are still engaged. Turkmenistan, the least populous of the five natio...
Deputy U.S. Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman has reportedly said that the US hopes that talks with Iran over its nuclear program will resume imminently. ‘A culture of corruption’, meant bribes were paid on behalf of Royal Dutch Sh...
Following the company’s announcement of a cut in production targets due to troublesome weather, the Telegraph takes gold miner Petropavlovsk to task on its inability to manage shareholder expectations. As its prepares for its London IP...
TODAY: New Unity day holiday marked by major far-right demonstration; UN places Russia 65th on development list; Putin ranks 4th on Forbes power ranking. Memorial to victims of Soviet repression praised by activists; Georgia arrests alleged ...
We’ve written in the past about the unfortunate dearth of political satire in Putin’s Russia, with wise-cracking puppets and acerbic cartoons pushed to the margins, leaving pathetically lame and unfunny animatronics in their place.&nbs...
Writing in the Financial Times, Charles Glover has a must-read article on the deepening viciousness of corruption in Russia, where the most dangerous thing that someone can do is go public and announce their victimhood. In particular, Glover...
From this NPR story, a glimpse into the daily machinations of Russia’s ruling party: Based in Saratov, Sergei Pochechuyev worked for United Russia as a political consultant until he broke ranks in 2008. He has written a book describing how t...
Russia’s Phosagro says it may put together a consortium with a rival bid for Canada’s Potash Corporation, after the Canadian government blocked a $39 billion hostile bid by BHP. Russia and Qatar could adopt an Opec-style market m...
According to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Russia’s failure to deliver its S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Tehran as promised can be blamed on the influence of Satan; he threatened to chase Russia for ‘compensation...
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