Alan Cowell has an interesting piece in the New York Times today: In some of the same lands described by President George W. Bush as an axis of evil, the Obama administration confronts an arc of obduracy from Pyongyang to Tehran. The riddle persis...
Remember the good ‘ole times from back in the summer of 2006? Russia was about to host the G8 Summit, Anna Politkovskaya and Stanislav Markelov were still alive and working hard, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky had only been in the gulag 2.5 ...
This bit about Barack Obama’s limited reach in Russia comes from Masha Lipman: The Kremlin keeps a firm grip on societal forces: Its concept of civil society implies loyalty to the state and rules out genuine autonomy. Those who dare defy th...
Here’s the latest article by Robert Amsterdam posted to Huffington Post: President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev should be good friends by now. Following his visit with the family to the Kremlin earlier this week, ...
The full text can also be read here. Among the highlights were these: “Competitive elections allow us to change course and hold our leaders accountable. If our democracy did not advance those rights, I – as a person of Afri...
We’ve heard from a lot of observers that the most critical flaw in the “reset button diplomacy” proposal from the Barack Obama administration was the shaky assumption that the Russian counterparts hold any interest whatsoever in ...
Andrei Illarionov: “Interest in Venezuela – this is part of the big strategy” Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev recently ...
Well, the mystery is over, and the question of whether or not Barack Obama would raise human rights issues during his visit to Russia has been answered. A few hours back, the media reported that the new U.S. president mentioned, among other ...
From Megan Stack’s article in the Los Angeles Times: “There’s no future in Russia for pro-American policy,” said Nikolai Zlobin, director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the World Security Institute in Washington. R...
We often hear from U.S. observers all about the mutual interests that Washington and the Kremlin share in curbing Iran’s march toward nuclear proliferation and other indications of growing hostility, yet it’s funny how we usually see n...
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