Although it’s not exactly clear who he is talking to, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is sending an aggressive warning for the holiday season: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Russia’s foes on Friday against trying to destabilize a c...
Guy Sorman has an interesting column exploring the deep fractures within Europe’s left-leaning political parties in light of the riots currently assailing Greece: Moreover, without the Soviet Union, European socialists have few foreign cause...
Remember back when Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev criticized the government and founded an opposition party? Seems like that may now cost him his stake in Aeroflot, as the state banks selectively withhold a bailout. The Financia...
Realism has a lot of advantages over other schools of thought on international relations. If, for example, you find yourself in an ardent debate over Russia, you can easily dismiss the competing approaches as being “unrealistic” ...
Although it may not be apparent from my recent blog posts, I have just completed a week-long business trip to Latin America. Among the many interesting topics in the news my colleagues and I have been discussing is Ecuador’s decision t...
This one is from an article in the Times of London on Russia sending warships to Cuba for the first time since the days of the Soviet Union. Also see yesterday’s post on the visit of the Nicaraguan president to Moscow. By sending its w...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Yevgeny Kiselyov points out that the latest changes to the criminal code on treason present some frightening possibilities. Human rights advocates are in shock. The definition of an “act” of treason is so l...
Meet Gao Xiqing – the man who runs the $200 billion China Investment Corporation. The Atlantic Monthly has a very interesting profile of him this week. Gao dressed and acted like a Silicon Valley moneyman rather than one from Wall Stre...
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece today on a very influential former British Army captain, Ryan Grist, who was serving as an OSCE war monitor in Georgia before he went AWOL across the Russian line on his own improvised fact-finding ...
The Kremlin has proposed to increase its holding in the electricity sector, offering to bail out big electricity companies such as OGK-1 by organizing the purchase of company stakes by state banks, and is also drafting plans for a $5.25 billion el...
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