In case there were any lingering doubts about where Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko stands on relations with Russia, here the Canadian Press cites her “firmest statements to date” made in a last minute pitch to chip a...
There have been a lot of comments flying around over the past couple days over how much of a “threat” Google has issued toward China, and how much their decision actually relates to any genuine concerns over human rights. IMHO, o...
Transneft is still supplying Belarus with oil, but, according to a spokesman, ‘if there is no application, no more oil remains to be pumped‘. RFE/RL seconds the concerns about the Mozyr plant in particular, saying transit could b...
Despite bi-lateral trade falling by 40% in 2009, Putin has asserted that economic relations between Turkey and Russia remain strong, and the latter is ready to help in the privatization of Turkish companies. It may be clouded in warning sign...
TODAY: Criminal case against rights advocate; whistleblower supporter detained; activists plan to go ahead with banned march. Kuzmin case dropped; changes rung in upper echelons of military; START coming soon apparently. Ukraine electi...
As I am sure all of you know, it has been a very terrible day for the country of Haiti, where thousands are believed to have been killed in an earthquake in Port-au-Prince. I urge all readers to consider donating to the emergency relief effo...
From an interview with Madeleine Albright in the FT: FT: Secretary Albright, you are now a business woman as well as everything else. What parts of the world are your clients most interested in right now as business opportunities? MA: Well, we are...
Jeffrey Mankoff’s article this week in Foreign Policy does a good showing why there isn’t really a good guy or a bad guy in the current energy face off between Russia and Belarus, but Europe should really be concerned about its outcome...
Could Russia and Ukraine be headed toward armed conflict over the Crimea peninsula anytime soon? I certainly don’t think so, but in this article by Andreas Umland, he speculates that conflict could be closer than it seems, as the hawki...
Writing in the Moscow Times, David Kramer of the German Marshall Fund gives some tips on how Washington should handle the Vladimir Putin-Dmitry Medvedev split. Beyond raining on Medvedev’s parade, Putin also seems intent on maintaining hardl...
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