TODAY: Russia and Ukraine reach accord after weekend of disputes over conditions for resuming gas supplies; angry Bulgaria seeks help to reduce Russia dependency; Medvedev opens interactive comment website; Beketov moved to intensive care; Czech f...
The author Simon Sebag Montefiore has a must-read op/ed in the New York Times about Russia’s lack of a mechanism to transfer power from one leader to the next. Vladimir Putin wants his successes in Russia to be respected by the West; hence h...
Though it feels like part of a scripted plot of an unknown conclusion more than an spontaneous outburst, yesterday President Dmitry Medvedev publicly criticized Vladimir Putin’s handling of the economy, which is the second time he has spoken...
When U.S. President James Monroe signed into law a doctrine outlining the new rules preventing European powers from colonizing and/or otherwise interfering in the political events of Latin America in 1823, the vague concept of spheres of influence...
Were the auctions of Yukos assets a fair, equitable and transparent process as the Russian government claims, or simple competition between two state firms to steal billions worth of assets under the guise of nationalization? I won’t m...
Grigol Vashadze, the foreign minister of Georgia, was in Washington this week to sign a strategic security accord with Washington (one final poke in the eye of Russia from the outcoming Bush administration). Joshua Keating over at Foreign Po...
Crisis, what crisis? Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Head of the Ministry of Finance Alexey Kudrin in the last days of the year gone by noted that inflation in Russia remain...
The solution to all of Russia’s economic ills may lie in a ten-foot deep hole in the middle of the Gobi Desert. Here’s a real wild story from the LA Times of an American socialite and daughter of a Russian prince who is on the hunt for...
Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, has really been on a tear lately, with the launching of a new blog over at Foreign Policy and numerous appearances in the press. Sometimes they have decent intelligence, sometimes the insights are...
The Economist has been writing a series of open emails to Barack Obama in the run-up to his inauguration, offering suggestions on various issues that the US President-elect will turn his hand to. Its latest missive has a few suggestions on h...
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