Ed Lucas proposes a not-completely-implausible scenario of Russia and Estonia going to war as an illustration of Europe’s many misconceptions of security relations with Moscow. Consider this scenario. Imagine that Estonian extremists start i...
Mark Franchetti of the Times of London has a very good piece today on the campaign to free Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina: Russians have been especially moved by the plight of Bakhmina’s two children, now seven and 11, who do not know their mother...
It’s funny that no matter how many warnings they get, Europe simply refuses to act to decrease their dependence on Russian energy. This one comes from the Financial Times: “No matter how much confidence European leaders have expressed about ...
This bit comes from Rose Gottemoeller in the Moscow Times: Obama and Medvedev would do well early in their relationship to make some policy decisions that would sharply break with Cold War patterns. For example, although Obama would not have assum...
On Thursday, Oct. 30, the Russian human rights group Memorial held a ceremony in front of the former KGB offices on Lubyanskaya Ploshchad to commemorate the Day of Victims of Political Repressions, reading off a list of about 30,000 victims of Jos...
Derek Brower, an energy journalist and former contributor to this blog, has a piece in the new edition of Petroleum Economist providing a “report card” on the recently disappointing performance of the once unsinkable Gazprom. Excerpts ...
Yesterday Russia’s foreign exchange reserves fell below $500 billion for the first time in eight months, dropping to $484.7 billion, not just because of the $50 billion rescue package but also due to the dragging efforts from the Central Ban...
These are tough times for the Russian economy – and those days when the political leadership was bragging about its easy liquidity and its status as a shelter during the storm seem quite distant indeed. Credit is tightening up, so major inte...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates made some pretty interesting comments a couple days ago during a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. With regard to the proposed anti-ballistic missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, S...
Doug Sanders at the Globe and Mail talks to Masha Lipman about how the “fragile bond” between the Kremlin and the business sector is coming under strain because of the economic crisis and the oligarch rescue plan. Sounds like the name ...
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