I am interested and confused by this article in the Moscow Times by the Kremlin polittechnologist Yevgeny Bashanov. Obama spoke to Russian leaders as equals in a manner befitting the leaders of sovereign states. The U.S. president could not behave...
Ever since Barack Obama’s first relatively friendly state visit to Moscow, Washington and the Kremlin have engaged in a showdown of gestures over the elephant in the room: the legitimacy of Russia’s claim to a privileged sphere o...
This is from my latest contribution to the Huffington Post: No one can cast personal blame for a murder when the culprit is an entire system of grand corruption. For years now, self-enriching state officials have gorged themselves on public instit...
Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, and a long list of other former leaders of Eastern European states have penned an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama expressing their fears over what kinds of sacrifices to their sovereignty might come along with...
Given that there is some overlap with this subject on Russia, and its on-again, off-again statements about non-intervention, I thought I would post the beginning of this translation we have featured over on Venezuela Report. Next time we see...
Last week we had some discussion about Charles Krauthammer’s article criticizing the linkage between offensive and defensive weaponry coming out of the U.S.-Russia Summit. Here Peter Scoblic of the New Republic tees off in disagreement...
Remember back in February when the Russians flew a delegation into Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, offering an extremely generous aid package of about $2 billion? Days later, the local dictatorship revoked the deal with Washington on the Manas air base...
Stanislav Belkovsky is often quite a clown, but usually not a boring one. After all, how many pundits out there like to open an article by quoting themselves? That’s exactly how he begins his latest piece of analysis posted to Ye...
Doyle McManus has an opinion piece in the LA Times arguing that Obamamania has come to end, citing the cold reception he got from Russian audiences. Good riddance, in our opinion, as the world could use a few less cults of personality, and a...
Yesterday afternoon Robert Amsterdam was interviewed on Air America radio by host Montel Williams on a range of issues, including the recent coup in Honduras and the recently published White Paper on the Eligio Cedeño case in Venezuela.
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