Below is a translation from the French newspaper Le Monde about how Gerhard Schröder is successfully exploiting Angela Merkel’s difficulties with the regional elections and the sticky issue of handling immigrant youth delinquency, and may be...
From the Economist: The overall result is dismal. Russia tends to put countries in one of three categories: those it flatters, those it squeezes, and those it ignores. Countries can be switched with remarkable rapidity. Slovakia, the Czech Republi...
When you hear about one former Soviet nation ejecting a diplomat on espionage accusations, followed by reciprocal measures in Moscow, you would probably assume we are talking about Georgia again. Not so. Today it is Latvia who is getting the Briti...
Robert Amsterdam has a new opinion article running in the Washington Times today: A cautionary tale By Robert Amsterdam January 25, 2008 Some may look into his eyes and see the soul of democrat, and others may see something far more sinister. Rega...
Gazprom’s acquisition of a majority stake in NIS is Russia’s “first big reward for supporting Serbia in trying to stop Kosovo from declaring unilateral independence”. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has asked Libya to release the head of oi...
TODAY: Kasyanov harassment; Putin’s carbon footprint; Rogozin to work constructively with NATO; Japanese government withdraw claims of espionage; Moscow’s wedding boom. The harassment of Mikhail Kasyanov’s campaign leaders was “a clear, a well-coo...
Russia is in a strong position at the World Economic Forum, with optimism over it’s outlook prompting some investors to take a closer look at the country. “I think the emerging markets are going to be largely immune to the subprime crisis,&#...
Here is an audio recording of radio interview by Focus 580 with David Inge (WILL-AM radio) with Robert Amsterdam about the Yukos and Khodorkovsky cases, as well as a discussion of other contemporary Russia issues during his visit to the University...
Russia’s state monopoly over mainstream media? Check. Party politics? Check. Utilities? Check. Natural gas? Check. All pipeline exports? Check. Oil? Check – thanks to what was stolen from Yukos, of course. Arms? Check. Space technology...
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