One of Russia’s most successful and welcomed soft power moves in recent years was to deploy its Navy in the Gulf of Aden, and protect the passage from the growing problem of piracy from Somalia. The Kremlin saw the need to get involved...
Energy was firmly on the agenda at President Medvedev’s meeting with Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad. Russia may apparently help build a nuclear power plant in the Middle East state, a move that could that could perturb the West due...
Stocks and the ruble rose the most in four months yesterday as a bailout package for crisis-hit Greece appeared. With Europe’s financial turbulence raging, Russia is, according to BusinessWeek, likely to receive a ‘massive’...
TODAY: Fears for treatment of ill businessman in prison; Strategy 31 organizers take on City Hall; GenPlan suspicions; Russia-Ukraine spy tie; Foreign Policy report suggests tensions with the US and Great Britain remain; Obama adviser warns ...
Brian Whitmore has a good new post over at Power Vertical about the “new” pro-Western Russian foreign policy currently in ascedency. Stay tuned here for a video interview we shot with Whitmore during our last visit to Prague. The...
Not a big surprise, but Paul Saunders from The Nixon Center has a new article published in The National Interest which argues that President Barack Obama is unlikely to escape criticism for his reset policy with Russia – so he should have ac...
Russia and the UAE have offered their assistance to the US in tackling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BG Group will pay £633 million for a 50% stake in game-changing shale gas assets from Exco Resources, in the British gas producerR...
Russia’s GDP may apparently increase by 8.7% in the second quarter, according to a RenCap forecast. The IMF has suggested that Russia may need to use capital controls in order to protect the economy against excessive inflows but has a ...
TODAY: Medvedev to discuss thorny issues on first trip to Syria; Obama submits civilian nuclear bill to Congress; Putin Black Sea base plans sends message to Ukraine. Replica of destroyed Georgian war memorial to be built in Moscow; past and...
In preparing for a talk I will be giving later this week on Russia and international law at Chatham House, I’ve been combing through some of the classic texts of my archives and rediscovering some of the country’s greatest legal minds ...
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