On the heels of an announcement that Kosovo has hired the advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi to improve the country’s international image (for $7.3 million), the new nation has taken care of another essential task: jumpstarting its...
Sure, Bakiyev went to Moscow and picked up a couple of billion dollars to close the U.S. airbase, but one can see how the decision was made easier. From the Associated Press: The Manas base is the only U.S. toehold in strategic Central Asia,...
Reuters has a story today about one of those international approval rating polls, in which respondents say whether each given country has a “positive” or “negative” impact on the world. The latest is that America̵...
A friend told us about this amusing/frightening story broadcast yesterday on Canada’s CBC radio show “As It Happens,” relating an incident of a clearly intoxicated Russian pilot being confronted by passengers on a transatlantic A...
Gilani Shepiyev, a former deputy mayor of Grozny, received three fatal gunshot wounds to the head late last night outside his Moscow apartment – an increasingly common affliction for many Russians who are in some way connected to the South C...
For anyone in need of advanced evidence of how disorganized America’s foreign policy towards Russia will likely be over the coming years, there is this priceless gem about former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s recent trips to Mos...
Rosatom says Russia is planning to start up a nuclear reactor at Iran’s Bushehr plant by the end of the year, in accordance with the project’s original timetable. Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov says he wants to help accelera...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that a government injection of 400 rubles ($11-14 billion) would be offered to Russia’s banks, falling well short of the $40 billion promised by Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin earlier this week. ...
TODAY: US and Russian delegates to meet in Munich today amid new challenge in Afghanistan; Nashi activists spying for Kremlin?; former Mayor gunned down in contract killing, media editors threatened and beaten; Politkovskaya witness says he was as...
She wrote it, not us. From Ellen Barry in the New York Times: Talk about mixed messages. Russia’s leaders this week could not say enough good things about President Barack Obama. His statements on Afghanistan were “encouraging,” ...
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