Rossiyskaya gazeta is the official organ of the government of the Russian Federation, so you can safely assume that anything printed in it represents the official party line. Below we offer our exclusive translation of a recent opinion piece, in w...
Daniel Ortega, left, shakes hands with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kisliak during a meeting in Managua, Friday, May 18, 2007. (AP) Not long ago I somewhat jokingly predicted that the foreign desk at the Kremlin was having a really tough...
These days, authoritarian populism in Russia requires a certain street cred and swagger in the orotorical style … even if it comes out rather unconvincingly from a dimunitive lawyer. On Tuesday, he used some of his harshest rhetoric to date,...
A few days old now, but still an interesting one from Slate.com: These days, the news from Georgia is all bombing campaigns and Russian occupation, but for an odd and magical week in the summer of 2006, I was part of Mikheil Saakashvili’s gr...
The Wall Street Journal is carrying a story on VP Dick Cheney’s trip to the Black Sea to express support for Georgia and push for alternative pipeline projects such as Nabucco. “The Russians have demonstrated they can close that corrid...
Robert Amsterdam gave an interview a few months ago to the Romanian magazine Cadran Politic, published today, about the Mikhail Khodorkovsky case. Excerpt: 1700 days in prison for MBK so far. Despite you and your lawyers’ efforts team, human right...
As part of an apparent Russian push for African energy resources, Gazprom has signed an oil and gas exploration agreement with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. Alaskan governor Sarah Palin says that US reliance on imported oil poses a nationa...
GAZ, the automaker owned by Oleg Deripaska, will buy 50% of VM Motori, already 50% owned by GM Motors. President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the construction of a $1 billion suspension bridge to link the Far East city of Vladivostok to Russky Isla...
TODAY: Second journalist killed, another beaten up as police curb protests. Ukrainian government in turmoil over Russia. Georgia to receive almost $2 billion in US and IMF aid. Germany fears Russian influence; Lavrov in Poland. Putin says US agent...
US Vice President Dick Cheney will visit the Caucasus to try and promote US interests and counterbalance fears about Russia’s energy dominance in the area. This article charts the progress of a Trans-Caspian energy pipeline. “The real cause for co...
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