The speculation that Russia could bomb Georgia shortly after the visit of Barack Obama seems to suggest a whole new definition of what it means to hit the “reset button.” I don’t think it will happen. From Associated ...
I think we can safely assume that the media will be doing everything possible to weave a narrative of the “Obama-Medvedev” personal dynamic despite its lack of evidence during the upcoming summit next week.
Gazprom head Alexei Miller has said that situation in Ukraine must be dealt with through ‘systemic efforts and policies’. He has also asserted that January’s gas cut-off was an ‘anomaly’ and a situation to be av...
Federal budget revenue will account for about 16% of national GDP in 2009. Bloomberg reports on why it will take the government years to recover from the crisis. Following Vladimir Putin’s complaints about the cost of pork, X5 Re...
TODAY: Russia and NATO hold first military talks since Georgia incursion; differences remain; OSCE skeptical about security proposals; issues emerge for imminent Obama visit; the Romanovs return NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has sai...
This is all news to me, but in an article in Foreign Policy, Peter Savodnik argues that Russia has given up on its quest to build itself back into a superpower, and is instead settling for the push for “a new international system” and ...
I see that Anders Aslund from the Peterson Institute née IIE is defending Latvia’s currency peg again, this time in the Moscow Times. Given the dearth of such defenders among the conventional economics wisdom crowd, and considering Russia...
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In attempting to get somewhat closer to understanding what on earth could possibly be going on inside the head of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s last dictator, RFE/RL interviews two analysts, Uladzimir Padhol and Leonid...
Robert Amsterdam was interviewed on the Lionel Show on Air America, discussing the Iran-Venezuela link, Eligio Cedeño and the new white paper, as well as some discussion about Russia:
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