This editorial in the Financial Times criticizes Viktor Yanukovych’s questionable deal with Moscow to trade cheap natural gas for an extended lease for the Russian Navy at Sevastopol, Crimea, which will push Ukraine further away from the Eur...
Tony Barber at the FT’s Brussels Blog ponders the significance of Ukraine’s controversial gas-for-naval-base deal and how it colors relations with the EU. The deal puts paid to any chance of NATO membership, Barber says, not...
One of the most powerful literary accounts of the Vietnam War was Tim O’Brien’s famous collection of stories The Things They Carried, which as a rhetorical device categorically listed the minute objects of possession carried by the sol...
Journalist Grigory Pasko recently had the opportunity to sit down with Andrei Illarionov, former advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, and currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institut...
This fantastic picture says it all. Vladimir Putin looks up briefly from his reading material to smile knowingly as Liberal Democrat leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky mouths off about Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov in the Duma last week. It’...
Austria’s Economy Minister has signed a deal to join the South Stream gas pipeline project, under which an estimated 2 billion extra cubic meters of gas a year will pass through Austrian territory from Russia on its way to Europe. Exxo...
Charges of illegal entrepreneurship and money laundering against billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev, ‘widely seen as punishment orchestrated by the siloviki‘, have been dropped due to lack of evidence. Kaluga officials are welcoming ...
TODAY: Russia detains former Kyrgyz police official; US and Russia call for WW2 style mutual trust; Belarus angry over free Russian naval bases; Ukrainians protest new gas-for-base deal; Russian wins London Marathon; United Russia seeks ban for Zh...
Is it just me, or does the image to the right strike fear into your heart as well? Talk about strategic lighting. But there are other, non-architectural reasons to fear Gazprom, according to a new Forbes 2000 – a list of the world̵...
Time Magazine ponders today the growing influence of Russia in former Soviet states that had made concrete steps towards breaking away in recent years, such as Georgia, which is thought to have less support from Obama now than it had from the...
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