The New Republic has a rather acerbic but interesting interview with Charles Fairbanks, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former deputy assistant secretary in the Department of State. We completely agree with him that the Bush administra...
Carlos Alberto Montaner has a new piece on PostGlobal: Among the reformists close to Kozyrev there was a certainty that the conquest of the world had been too costly and counterproductive an enterprise. And another key idea had blossomed: the West...
In a letter to the Times, an academic notes that the invasion of Georgia may have been a short-term victory and long-term loss for Russia’s regional interests: Re “Russia’s War of Ambition” (editorial, Aug. 12): While militarily a success, R...
Russia’s antitrust watchdog has found Mechel guilty of breaking competition law, and could fine it up to $130 million. The company may also have to cut prices by 30%. Petroneft has agreed a deal with Arawak Energy to jointly pursue new opportuniti...
Despite contradictory reports, Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska‘s car unit, Russian Machines, denied it was seeking to buy the Hummer brand from General Motors Corp. President Dmitry Medvedev has chaired a meeting organized to decide on a ...
TODAY: Russian troops move into Gori; UN may approve peace proposal by end of week; Russia will not recognize Georgia’s territorial integrity; war of words rages on; HRW questions Russia’s death toll; White House struggling to find means of retali...
War is a funny thing – it has the ability to attract such a wide variety of commentators with no connection whatsoever to the region, suddenly presenting themselves as knowledgeable authorities on the subject. That is certainly the case in t...
Ah, journalists! I love you guys, but you just can’t resist a good Olympic competition story between two nations at war. Certainly the cameras loved the symbolic hug between Russia’s Natalia Paderina and Georgia’s Nino Salukvadze...
I think that this column by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. in the Wall Street Journal, if not well intentioned, does a lot of projecting and stretching, including a number of favorite ideological issues attached to unrelated events. His central argument, ...
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