Robert Amsterdam blogs on the Huffington Post about the upcoming elections in Guinea later this month – expected to be the very first free and fair contest in the country’s post-independence history. Many readers will recall that...
Dear readers … this is just a quick announcement to let you know that Bob’s blogging on Thailand will now be located over here, while this main page will go back to mainly Russia content.
Gas supplies to Belarus have been cut by a further 15% today, in addition to yesterday’s 15% cut. Apparently the country plans to pay off its debts within two weeks. Two weeks is too long to wait, says Sergei Kupriyanov. &nb...
An economic reset will be the focus of Medvedev’s visit to the US today, where his first stop will be Silicon Valley, to take notes for the Skolkovo project. The President will also apparently seek out a definitive answer from Barack O...
TODAY: Sberbank head’s testimony at Khodorkovsky trial hailed a boost for Yukos founder; journalist freedoms protected by new law; damning report of North Caucasus sees United Russia acquiesce with activists; artists under attack on charges ...
The Japanese magazine Sentaku features a new article which disregards the apparent transformation of Russia under the U.S. reset policy. It would be a mistake, however, to jump to the conclusion that Moscow has abandoned its diplomacy of threat an...
With the failure of the weekend’s gas talks between Gazprom and a delegation from Minsk, President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered that gas supplies to Belarus be cut. The company’s chief Alexei Miller asserted that shipments to Euro...
The Moscow Times has a full report on events at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum: including details of Medvedev’s desire to make the ruble a reserve currency and to turn Moscow into an international finance center. Care ...
TODAY: Medevedev calls for modernization, but will political reform accompany it? Nemtsov distributes anti-Putin publication in streets; revealing Sechin interview; no pride for St Pete; Luzkov cases go to Strasbourg. Kyrgyzstan situat...
Earlier this week, Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published a second statement in response to our work, and as with the first one, I am providing a link to the full text here in order to engender an open debate on these important...
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