I’ve been closely following the horrific persecution of lawyer Peter Erlinder, an American political prisoner of the Rwandan government who was detained under false charges on May 28th, just one week after his client, the opposition leader V...
The following press release was distributed via wire from Paris this morning. Thailand Lacks Creditability to Investigate Bangkok Killings Paris, June 10, 2010 – The panel established by the Thai authorities to investigate the violence again...
The UN has reportedly approved ‘necessary’ sanctions against Iran. Iranian President Ahmadinejad has responded with a warning to Russia that ‘they must be careful not to be on the side of the enemies of the Iranian people&#...
Vladimir Putin has told AFP that Russia ‘trusts and believes’ in the euro and will not change its share in the nation’s reserves. Rencap has predicted Russia’s economic recovery could be jeopardized by the eurozone cr...
TODAY: Putin not ‘fussing’ over 2012 election; denies image cultivation; Stalin-era mass grave found. Duma attendance increases; man faces 2 1/2 years in prison for rally incident with policeman; officials to lose migalki? ...
Out of all the things that could pop up to drive a wedge between Kremlin elites, from foreign meddling to money to competing powers of the clans, you would have never guessed that the environment could become so troublesome an issue. At the end of...
A Good Treaty has posted a translation of an interesting article by Oleg Kashin recounting his visit to the “Strategy-31” opposition rally in Triumfal’naia Square on May 31 in Moscow. The perennial question of the Kremlin&#...
Vladimir Putin, amateur economist, has given a big interview to AFP ahead of a two-day trip to France in which he speaks at length about Russia’s support for the European economy and its trust in the long-term value of the euro: “We tr...
Alexander Golts has a pretty cutting op/ed in the Moscow Times today which points out how many times Russian officials have claimed different goals for rearmament, but then fell far short as the generous budgets disappeared. It’s happe...
The New York Times suggests that a security meeting between Russia, Turkey and Iran in Istanbul may pose somewhat of a conundrum to the US as it opens another UN security council debate on sanctions. The Moscow Times reports claims that UN s...
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