TODAY: EU summit “disappointing” / demonstrates “unity”. Talks on new EU agreement suspended until Russia withdraws troops from Georgia; 1 million-strong Georgian anti-Russia protest; Lavrov calls for arms embargo. Ingushetia website journalist’s ...
Writing at the Financial Times, editor Roula Khalaf argues that with regard to the Russian invasion of Georgia, “It is to Iran’s advantage to stay on the sidelines as a new geopolitical game unfolds, and Tehran tries to figure out its place ...
Dmitri Simes, who usually only says very positive things about Russian authoritarianism under Putin, tells the Financial Times that during the war in Georgia there were numerous cases of military officers exceeding their mandate and acting beyond ...
The Economist points out that the emergency EU Summit held over Russia today is the first of its kind held since 2003 when the organization met to debate the Iraq war, which should at least count for something: But there are other bits of the EU w...
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy (C), France’s Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (L) and European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pottering (R) are pictured prior to an emergency summit of European Union leaders on the crisis in Georg...
What commentary can one really add to this reprehensible slaying of Kremlin-critic blogger Magomed Yevloyev? The return to the headlines of the crisis in Ingushetia, which the opposition claims involves an open policy of genocide by the Russian st...
In many countries the tragic story of Vitali Kaloyev, the man who stabbed to death a Swiss air traffic controller whom he believed was responsible for the accidental death of his wife and child, would be fodder for inspired fiction and probably a ...
Igor Sechin, center, one of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s closest aides, walks through the historic center of Old Havana in late July. During the trip, Sechin met with Raul Castro in an event that was qualified by the local media a...
Hurricane Gustav has caused 96% of the oil production in the Gulf of Mexico to be shut off; Shell and Conoco also shutting down operations. Could Russia cut crude oil supplies to Europe? The country “is willing to use the oil weapon,” notes the Te...
Russia today will begin a ban on poultry imports from 19 US producers, and has warned that further suppliers could face bans. The Russian market has been the biggest for US poultry exporters. Russian steel companies will cut prices for car manufac...
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