‘We should admit, in all honesty, that direct government support of the stock market achieved nothing‘, President Medvedev has said in a meeting with politicians from A Just Russia, but Putin’s unified property tax is worth consi...
TODAY: Georgia accuses Russian secret services of fomenting military plot; Kremlin retaliates to NATO spy row with expulsion of Canadian diplomats; Russia extends pork ban to Britain; gay pride march to take place in tandem with Eurovision Georgia...
Igor Torbakov from the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki has an opinion piece on the Russian tandemocracy of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev posted over at EurasiaNet, examining how this political structure may be insuffici...
Former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski writes in the Wall Street Journal, calling on Europe to renew its promises of 1989. Despite these achievements, the process of making Europe “whole and free” is incomplete — and will...
It seems that if Russia wanted to do something dramatic about Georgia, now would be the perfect time, given that Barack Obama’s options may be more constrained now than in the future and Mikheil Saakashvili is on political death watch. ...
Fraser Cameron of the E.U.-Russia Centre provides his appraisal of Dmitry Medvedev’s first year as President of the Russian Federation. Another survey, by the E.U.-Russia Center, shows that most Russians consider the top three issues facing ...
Crude oil inventories are ‘bursting at the seams’ as record amounts of unused oil are being put in storage around the world, threatening to flood the market; Goldman Sachs has predicted that storage capacity may be full by June. ...
Putin has revisited the proposal of a new unified property tax, which would reduce the price of costly real estate and bolster local government budgets during the crisis. The ruble has risen to a three-month high against the dollar as oil re...
TODAY: US flexible on delivery vehicle reduction; 10,000 troops apparently in Georgia breakaway regions; EU looks for stability in eastern bloc; Medvedev proposes piracy court; number of pilots tumbling The US is reportedly ready to reduce their n...
Just when I thought I was all done posting video interviews from my last trip to Washington, I saw Bob’s post today about the Gary Hart and Dmitri Simes article about realism, interests, and the prospects for cooperation between the Obama Ad...
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