Most observers are expecting Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama to use the first foreign policy debate this coming Friday to discuss U.S. policy toward Russia, and most likely highlight their (at times passionate) disagreements. What many may ...
Ukraine has started electricity imports from Russia as domestic thermal power plants experience problems with coal supplies. The state company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. announced a new agreement with Gazprom concerning the Russian monopoly’s fir...
Russia’s stock markets extended losses Tuesday as the Standard & Poors ratings agency revised its long-term outlook on seven Russian banks over liquidity concerns. Eurocement Holding today purchased6.52% of voting shares of Switzerland&...
TODAY: Georgian authorities to protest to the European Union about violations of the Sarkozy-Medvedev agreement by Russia; Corruption in Russia is at its worst for eight years, watchdog Transparency International states; Georgia states it had shot...
Below Richard Danzig of the Truman National Security Project discusses the available carrots and sticks in U.S.-Russia relations following the conflict in Georgia. The speech is a few weeks old, but still interesting.
Opinio Juris is one of my favorite blogs, and just last week I submitted a comment piece for the Russian online journal Gazeta.ru dealing with the exact same subject as this post about Carl Schmitt: My reason for moving away from Schmitt as a mean...
The following is a translation of a rare interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky by the French newspaper Le Figaro. See the original source here. “When Russia is wrong, Europe must say so” Interview by Laure Mandeville Le Figaro September 20-21, 2008 ...
For some of you who regularly read this blog, you may want to file this note under “Gazprom – Preemption” – because it’s a topic we have seen come up time and time again. We have written quite a bit in this space abou...
Tony Halpin’s new article in the Times of London probably carries one of the paper’s less tactful headlines today: “Russia engages in ‘gangland’ diplomacy as it sends warship to the Caribbean.” Halpin reports: D...
Dandelion Salad points to this video of former Secretary of State Colin Powell speaking about the war as a “predictable” conflict that could have been avoided. I’m less inclined to believe that the actual substance of Powell̵...
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