As Ed Crooks points out in the FT on the new Russia-Turkey deal on the South Stream pipeline, in the geopolitics of energy, there are no friends, only partners. Here’s what the Russians paid the Turks to sign on to a pipeline that cuts...
Vladimir Putin’s visit to Turkey, where he’s already signed on their support for the South Stream pipeline through Black Sea waters, was also greeted with a couple protests – one from the Chechens, and the other from Greenpeace. ...
From Steven Sestanovich in the Washington Post: Almost all the states of the former Soviet Union are already working with Western governments, and with each other, to increase their independence from Moscow. When Kyrgyzstan lets the United States ...
From the BBC: Neil MacFarlane, Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, believes Russia’s relations with its neighbours are governed by an approach which differs widely from that of the West. “To judge from wha...
Vladimir Putin marked his ascendancy by talking about the dictatorship of law through his vertical of power. Dmitry Medvedev was defaulted into office on anti-corruption pledges and a mission to rid Russia of its legal nihilism. Yet on...
This is the last Putin-in-Siberia post, promise. From the Associated Press: While Americans may think of the Marlboro man, for Russians the more powerful association is the warrior heroes of Russian fairy tales who rode horseback and defende...
Turkey has apparently approved ‘in principle’ plans for the South Stream pipeline to pass through its waters. Russia may decrease the price at which it will offer to sell power from a proposed nuclear plant to be built in Turkey....
President Medvedev has openly complained about the amount of red tape small businesses have to plough their way through to develop. Medvedev has suggested that small and medium-sized businesses are key factors in economic modernization. ...
TODAY: Submarine activity deemed routine. Russia will not amass troops in Georgia; suggests non-violence treaty for Saakashvili’s regime. Georgia denies rearming. Politkovskaya trial re-opens, and is adjourned. A high-ranking Rus...
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