Some more shots are exchanged over the realism vs. liberalism issue. From Paul Goble’s Window on Eurasia: In an essay posted on Grani.ru today, Irina Pavlova points out that “the post-Soviet powers that be have done everything to...
Roger E. Kanet of the University of Miami has published a new 30-page paper on U.S.-Russian relations entitled “From Cooperation to Confrontation: Russia and the United States since 9/11.” He’s assembled quite a laundry lis...
According to this piece in TIME, Russia may be on the cusp of changing its policy toward Iran and cooperating with the United States on strengthening sanctions – but maybe not. Although the warmer diplomacy from the Obama administratio...
Anne Applebaum has published a lengthy review of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev in the New Republic. She includes in her review a discussion of the “insaneR...
Wow. A very important article in the Washington Post by Lev Gudkov, Igor Klyamkin, Georgy Satarov and Lilia Shevtsova. More comments coming later. We object, for example, to the basic proposition of calling for a return to realpolitik because some...
Though it doesn’t own the headlines like it used to, the political crisis in Moldova continues unabated, and deserves greater international attention. Here Arcadie Barbarosie and Igor Botan from Chisinau make the case for a U.S. role i...
Mikhail Gorbachev has some advice for the United States in today’s Washington Post (also see Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s very similar “global perestroika“): Elements of such a model already exist in some countries. Having reject...
Today a former KGB spy, living in Canada since 1997, has taken refuge inside a church in Vancouver in a desperate move to avoid deportation of himself and his family. The Canadian authorities are seeking to send Mikhail Lennikov, his wife Ir...
Nothing breaks up the Monday blues like a yet another video from Henry Kissinger talking about North Korea and Russia. Fast forward to about 10:30 to get to the Russia stuff. The banter is pretty predictable from Kissinger – we a...
Check out “Rethinking Russia,” an hour-long discussion with three prominent Russia scholars on the state of U.S./Russia relations, premiering this Tuesday at 8:00 pm on Dan Rather Reports, on the cable channel HDNet. Dan Rather hosts t...
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