TODAY: Obama firm on reasons for missile defense decision; Medvedev and Putin seem to take it as a positive sign; Putin wishes to see trade the next barrier broken; Russia will abandon Kaliningrad missile plans. Pressure mounting regarding I...
A lesson in media relations from Vladimir Putin: The world’s economic crisis does not seem to have been unkind to you, Vladimir Putin notes as we sit down to a lunch that begins with calf’s tail in aspic. “You all look well fed, ...
Better late than never, Princeton University Fellow Alexander Etkind writes about Vladimir Putin’s Gazeta Wyborcza article on RCW: That article reflects the deep, unresolved problems of Putin’s era: the inability to distinguish between...
In the famous film Borat, Kazakhstan is shown, to put it mildly, as a strange state. However, the government of Kazakhstan, extremely irritated by the film at the beginning, now, as they are reporting, has replaced wrath with kindness – it h...
[Click here to read Part 1 of this travelogue.] Who is Zhovtis? In recent days, the presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan met in a yurt in Orenburg. Three questions particularly worried Nazarbayev: about join control of the state border between the ...
Meir Javedanfar at the Guardian has an article entitled “Did the US do a deal with Russia?” Duh. I wonder when Israel sends a wry thank you letter to Poland and the Czech Republic. Should Russia desert Iran’s si...
The New York Times suggests that antagonism regarding issues of sovereignty over Arctic waters has had a deleterious effect on the RUSALCA Arctic Sea mission. Bloomberg reports that BG Group will seek to recover at least $700 million in expo...
Economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich has complained that G20 nations are not abstaining from protectionism as promised at the April summit. Anti-crisis measures will be upheld, Dvorkovich added, apparently contradicting the Central Bank chairman ...
TODAY: US missile defense in Eastern Europe plans officially scrapped in favor of ‘more efficient’ new program. A matter of concession or conviction on Obama’s part? Mixed reaction from former would-be host countries ...
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