I was waiting for somebody to point this out. Despite what the realists may say, it is ultimately not in U.S. interests to abandon values and human rights while kindly looking in the other direction in the face of conveniently oppressive dic...
The New York Times looks at the key focus of the investigation into the plane crash which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and scores of others of political and military leaders in Russia over the weekend: the decision of the pilot to ...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s failure to attend the ceremony marking the start of construction on the Nord Stream pipeline was a surprise to participants, says the Moscow Times, although President Dmitry Medvedev was on hand to sign the ne...
The Chairman of the Central Bank is undecided on an interest rate cut this month, although he gave the recovering economy an overall positive review. Almaz-Antei, the Russian air defense manufacturer, has been ranked 18th on a global Top 100...
TODAY: Russian response to fatal Polish crash praised as thousands gather to meet bodies in Warsaw; Bastrykin rules out technical failure, conspiracy theories inevitable; Russia pledges aid to Kyrgystan; police awarded for refusing bribe offer; Mo...
When I woke this morning to read the news that Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland, had died in a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia along with 87 others, I was saddened and speechless. Along with the president and the first lady, Poland lost a...
Surprisingly, there are still some people out there arguing that this isn’t the Kremlin’s aim in Kyrgyzstan: “The American base is not against Russia,” said Alexei Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. “Even the R...
Evgeny Morozov at the FP Net Effect blog has some ideas about why there was no Twitter-revolution behind the civil unrest and change of government in Kyrgyzstan … it’s not only because it’s harder to pronounce than Iran. Finally,...
Below are two video interviews with Alexei Navalny, a minority shareholder rights lawyer in Russia (which is a courageous profession). Navalny has been at the vanguard of various lawsuits seeking to bring transparency and rule of law to Russ...
Diane Francis of the Financial Post put up an interesting blog article not too long ago on the ways in which advances in shale gas development are changing the world, and taking the geopolitical punch out of the oil and gas trade (Gazprom is certa...
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