Pavel K. Baev has an interesting piece on Asia Times Online about Russia’s budget priorities: The new budget therefore demanded clearer priorities than just small flat cuts in every department, and the structure of expenditures proves two pr...
The small smuggling mob that is the population of South Ossetia is one thing, while the nationalists of Abkhazia are entirely different … and they don’t very much like the idea of getting annexed by Russia. The other day Reuters ...
Gideon Rachman’s column in the Financial Times focuses on the ongoing economic troubles in the Baltics – and the threat it poses to European and Russian recovery. The economic downturns in the region are shocking. Last week, Lithuania ...
Oil has risen to over $70 a barrel for the first time in a month. Bulgaria’s new government will continue to support the South Stream gas pipeline, but is as of yet undecided on whether to abandon its nuclear power plant, which was set...
Russia’s ‘unsustainable’ budget deficit is reportedly ‘a major threat to economic stability‘. Sevastopol market in southern Moscow is the latest market to be raided by police, heightening fears among law-abiding...
TODAY: New NATO chief asserts Russia needs to acknowledge sovereignty; nuclear chief fired; Uzbekistan wary of Kremlin’s Kyrgyzstan plans. Moscow-appointed judge in Yukos case to step down. Anniversary of Solzhenitsyn’s death. Th...
Steve LeVine has a blog post up about the William Browder and Hermitage lawsuit against Renaissance … yet points out that the foreign investors will keep on going back for more abuse. We’ve seen this movie before. For instance, BP keep...
James F. Collins of Carnegie Endowment has a column in the Moscow Times about the need to create an institutional apparatus to carry out relations between Moscow and Wasington in a structured and predictable environment … in other words, mak...
The Financial Times has an interesting piece about the former Moldovan Communist Party leader Marian Lupu, who is playing a central role in the current events in Chisinau. Lupu will essentially be the main coordinator of whatever political a...
International banks, the EU and Ukraine have met an agreement on Kiev reforming its gas sector that will allow the country to receive up to $1.7 billion in loans to secure gas transit. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development sai...
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