José Miguel Vivanco, the Americas director of Human Rights Watch, has published an opinion article in today’s Washington Post criticizing the human rights abuses of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Although I am certainly influenc...
During a trip to my birthplace of New York City some years ago, I had the pleasure of briefly meeting the impressive and talented Professor Jenik Radon of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Radon i...
Political advisory Gleb Pavlovsky has given an extensive interview resulting in two separate articles in the Financial Times, one of which includes commentary about how he believes President Dmitry Medvedev sees the second trial of Mikhail Khodork...
I caught the following excerpt over on World Politics Review by Daria Solovieva, which takes a cursory look at the relationship between Russia’s economic boom times and the low level of political activity on behalf of citizens – more o...
Below is an excerpt of an article Miriam Elder – a journalist that many of us know from the pages of the Moscow Times – however this time she is writing for GlobalPost, a new news model which is taking a stab at creating a sustainable ...
The EU Energy Commissioner has said that Russia’s proposals regarding a legal framework for energy contracts will not replace the current Energy Charter. ‘There was no attempt to isolate Russia‘, were the words of an EU spo...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that ‘the growth of protectionism poses a problem in the economic relations with the EU’, and showed that trade with EU countries dropped 50% between February 2008 and February 2009.&nb...
TODAY: NATO-Russia contacts reach immediate hurdle; security pacts reignite tensions as do spying claims; attacked journalist in coma; labor day today – but is there much to celebrate? The security agreements Moscow has signed with South Oss...
Note from editor: These days, those of us who haven’t yet fallen into a catatonic stupor listening to the procurators’ voices droning away in a dingy courtroom in Moscow have been hearing a litany of fantastic crimes supposedly c...
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