Diane Francis, columnist at the Financial Post, wrote up a short column about the Eligio Cedeño case in Venezuela interviewing Robert Amsterdam, making mention of the Rusoro controversy, which has a Russia-related angle. “Venezuela said it w...
As U.S. President Barack Obama looks to bet his presidency by actually doing something about the deplorable, non-functioning healthcare market, he’s facing an angry and implacable opposition from the Republicans, who are even fond of sending...
Have you noticed things a little lighter here at RA lately? You’re not imaging it. Bob is currently spending some quality time with the family before his very existence slips the minds of his daughters, while I have been assigned...
Personally, when I think of the World’s Most Dangerous Places, I think of Robert Young Pelton, whose approach to off-the-beaten-path travel saved my life more times than I care to count during the early reckless years of my youth. David Roth...
Venezuela’s inimitable Hugo Chavez has been having quite the busy summer. In between renewed crackdowns on the media, utterly totalitarian measures to usurp power from the democratically elected opposition, along with new evidence poin...
From RIA Novosti: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on his 55th birthday on Tuesday, the Kremlin press service announced. Medvedev’s letter was passed on to Chavez by Russian Deputy Prime Minist...
If you want to know what Russia’s energy ambitions are in the emerging markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, I used to tell people that all you had to do was carefully track the travel schedule of Vladimir Putin. Nowadays, the sa...
A few minutes ago, ousted Honduran President made a big PR move by going to the Honduras border, stepping about three feet over for 15 minutes, and then coming back over to Nicaragua. The entire time he was swamed be people, sticking out wit...
Writing in the Globe and Mail on the recent open letter from Havel and co., John O’Sullivan of the conservative Hudson Institute points out that it is pretty hard for the Obama administration to improve relations with Russia without sufferin...
We didn’t bother making a big deal out of Liz Cheney’s Wall Street Journal article from a few weeks back, which excoriated President Barack Obama for his speech in Moscow, arguing that he seemed a little too nice to the Russians and pr...
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