Steve Clemons at Washington Note unearths a previously unknown letter from last February written from Sen. Chuck Hagel to Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates warning that recognition of Kosovar independence would make for big trouble with Russia. He...
To see an expert ply his trade is often a beautiful thing. But to watch Gerhard Schröder do what apparently he does best, which is to push Russian interests in the West in exchange for hundreds of thousands of euros, is an often revolting, stomach...
An article by Joshua Kurlantzick, one of our favorite writers, argues that the middle class in many countries has turned into an anti-democratic force. Certainly seems true in Russia, where the narrative of the day is authoritarianism in exchange ...
There seems to be an emerging pattern of Russia’s leadership copying the scripts of Hollywood blockbusters as a guide to foreign policy … I wonder if Jean Claude Van Damme is being considered as a replacement for Foreign Minister Serge...
President Dmitry Medvedev has called on security chiefs to establish a formal border in the Arctic, territory which he views as crucial to Russian energy security. Arms control advocates see the nuclear energy accord between the US and India as po...
Russia has halted trading on its stock markets for the second day in a row in an attempt to prevent a crash caused by ‘panic-selling’, and to protect Russian banks, the three largest of which will now receive extra funds from the government. It’s ...
TODAY: Medvedev signs treaties with former Georgian territories, US struggles to respond; economy in trouble but Russia is a serious power on the world stage; relations with Latin America slowly strengthening; visa requirements with Israel scrappe...
Few would describe relations between the United States and Russia as open or friendly over the past number of years, but the steep slide into open stridency following the invasion of Georgia really puts the matter rather beyond doubt. Whenever we ...
Regular readers of this blog know that once in a while we like to feature translations from the Russian state-run media to provide a glimpse into exactly what kind of extremism and hyperbole is regularly getting pumped into the public sphere. Our ...
The story of Svetlana Bakhmina, a former lawyer for Yukos who has been arrested and held in jail for more than six years for doing nothing more than perform her job, is one of the saddest in a long history of judicial travesties surrounding the pe...
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