This comes from an op/ed in the Washington Times by William F. Shughart II of the Independent Institute: When its tanks rolled into Georgia, the Kremlin sent notice it intends to dominate the oil and natural gas resources of the former Soviet repu...
Liesl Schillinger at the New York Times reviews Owen Matthews’ book Stalin’s Children: His parents, he learned, met and fell in love in Moscow in 1963, while his father was doing graduate work at Moscow State University. After they tri...
With the APEC Summit getting underway this weekend in Lima, Peru, the world’s eyes are on Latin America, focusing with unusual interest over this oft-forgotten continent, looking for an indication of the prevailing economic winds. Natu...
Julia Ioffe, writing at the New Republic Plank blog about Russia’s extension of presidential term limits: What does the Kremlin say in its defense? It invokes the economic crisis and the time needed to deal with it; it points to Russian exce...
Are you unsatisfied with the conclusions of the Amnesty International report on the Russian invasion of Georgia? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to pilot a tank through the Roki Tunnel into South Ossetia? Or to be a Osseti...
Ariel Cohen at Heritage believes that Moscow has made a “shrewd geopolitical move” by threatening U.S. president-elect Barack Obama with missiles in Kaliningrad, and may have inadvertently painted him into a corner, given that he will ...
The last time we blogged about the Russian potash mining company Uralkali, currently under siege from a possible expropriation attempt from the government, it was in the context of the clan wars. This week more details are becoming apparent ...
This bit comes from Bronwen Maddox at the Times: At the weekend’s G20 summit in Washington, Russia was almost silent. The contrast with China was startling. China, unlike Russia, has bought into the idea that it serves its own interest by em...
Below is another exclusive translation from the Russian news outlet RBK Daily, a pro-government source that sometimes serves as an unintentionally illuminating guide to Kremlin thinking. This piece of news, which has also been hit by the Jou...
It’s becoming clear that the Russian government is getting very, very paranoid about the financial crisis, and, as usual, their first target of harassment is the media. Reporters and editors have been given strict instructions from the...
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