Today AFP is running a story on an interview given by a former Mikhail Khodorkovsky prison work supervisor to Kommersant-Vlast magazine, in which he declares the attempt to frame the former head of Yukos for sexual assault was “complete nons...
The importance of Central Asia in Russian geopolitics has been clear for some time, but perhaps it took the Manas debacle to bring America up to speed. Next in line for Russia’s, ahem, beneficence may be Tajikistan, a resource-rich strategic...
We’ve been watching with great interest the series of long term oil deals being signed by the Chinese, and now Steve LeVine has a pretty good analytical piece up explaining how the current underinvestment in production is going to lead to an...
Is Kazakhstan going to suspend its joint venture with Gazprom due to effects of the economic crisis? South Korea has agreed to provide Iraq with $3.55 billion worth of infrastructure in return for stakes in Basra’s oil fields. Ru...
The ruble has seen its value take a serious hit in the last months, as it did in the 1998 crash – but the chances for a speedy recovery look ‘murkier this time around’. Is Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin behind the latest...
TODAY: Communists gather 2,000 supporters; the precariousness of the armed forces; could base closure spell trouble for Russia? Eyes watching for any militarization of the Arctic. Belarus and the EU; World Chechnya Day.The Communist Party reported...
Despite Vladimir Putin’s acknowledged position as one of the world’s more right-wing leaning leaders in the world, many individuals on the opposite side of the political spectrum often seem eager to manufacture excuses, apologies, and ...
Strobe Talbott, who hasn’t been writing as much about Russia since fending off allegations made in spy’s memoir, has a new piece in the Financial Times which makes a Kissinger-esque argument for the growing area mutual interests and po...
We’ve seen quite a lot of grist thrown into the rumor mill that Crimea, Ukraine, is next on the Kremlin’s annexation list following the relatively easy seizure of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. However this piece by Joshua Kucera ov...
Dmitry Sidorov, Kommersant’s man in Washington, has a lengthy piece in Forbes today about President Medvedev’s alleged “split” with Putin over issues of human rights and liberal Democracy. Fat chance, says Sidorov: “A...
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