Garry Kasparov’s column in the Wall Street Journal today expounds on the significance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s choice of Moscow as a good place to during the electoral turmoil to prove his international legitimacy. He argues that...
On Feb. 1, 2007, a Venezuelan judge named Yuri López admitted a complaint from a defendant, denouncing the improper conduct of judicial officials who shared his case materials with third parties, and then later perjured when questioned on the topi...
Remember back when the Russians bribed the Kyrgyz government with a $2 billion aid package in order to kick the Americans out of the Manas airbase, severely hampering the U.S. government’s ability to operate in Afghanistan? Well it loo...
I liked this line from Shevtsova’s MT article: Nevertheless, Obama might try to pull off something in Moscow that no other U.S. president has succeeded in doing: reaching an agreement with the Kremlin on issues of common interest and at the ...
Having recently completed a week-long trip to the cities of São Paulo, Brasilia, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I am struck with several observations that relate to relations with Venezuela, Russia, and the international business community. The...
The jury apparently is in for now – a Treasury Department official says that the $134.5 billion of treasury bonds recently seized at the Swiss-Italian border are fakes. As much as I wish there was something more to this story, sadly, there i...
Robert Amsterdam is currently in Brazil, where he met yesterday with Senator and ex-President José Sarney, to discuss the plight of political prisoners in Venezuela, and in particular the case of Eligio Cedeño, a Venezuelan banker who has been lan...
Some key stats that Bloomberg uncovers in what must be the 800th article in the past 48 hours with the word “BRIC” in it: Dollar bonds sold by China earned 11.4 percent in the past year, more than double the 4.6 percent for debt in yua...
It’s an interesting move for the Obama administration to propose the involvement of Russia in an alternative anti-ballistic missile shield effort, just two and a half weeks before the state visit to Moscow. On the one hand, Washington ...
This week Russia is hosting the first summit of BRIC nations in Yekaterinburg, which is the third summit in a row in under a week – all of which do not include any participation of North American or Western European countries. It appea...
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