Do good relations with Russia mean a total abandonment of its neighbors? From Foreign Policy’s The Argument: Russia has always had a knack for overshadowing its neighbors – and this time the West, focused on Moscow, is distracted...
Daniel Kimmage writes in Foreign Policy today about the myth of mutual interests between Russia and the United States. We’ve held some of these arguments in the past, such as the idea that Russia has completely opposite intentions with...
Tuesday’s big news was that the Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies purchased a 2% stake of preferred shares in the immensely popular social media platform Facebook. But who is this group, and who’s behind it? ...
Back in the Bush II heydays, I always thought of Russia’s Ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, as a tongue-in-cheek answer to the appointment of John Bolton to the United Nations (minus, of course, the overt racism of the former). Among...
The Washington Post is running an editorial today criticizing the engagement policy of the Obama administration toward Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela – where conditions for the opposition have deteriorated rapidly over the past 2-3 months.&nb...
One of the oldest tricks in the authoritarian playbook is the subtle theft of the people’s sovereignty, grafting the rights of citizens onto a regime of personal power. Cuba’s Fidel Castro was and is the grandmaster of this tactic R...
A Canadian defense reporter has dug a a little bit of gossip about a fight between the bodyguards of Hugo Chavez and Dmitry Medvedev last year, which may have caused Caracas to cancel its deal to buy some Russian submarines. (Hat tip to Josh...
Washington’s plans to install non-existent anti-ballistic missile technology into Poland and the Czech Republic in order to defend against non-existent Iranian missile technology has long been a sore point in the U.S.-Russia relationship.&nb...
In case there were any lingering doubts left among about the morality deficit of the United Nation’s beleaguered Human Rights Council (HRC), this article by Ibn Warraq published in City Journal puts the case to rest. Given that the UN ...
A piece from Yevgeny Bazhanov in the Moscow Times takes a look at what we can expect from the U.S.-Russia relationship this summer. Amid the economic crisis and after the unsuccessful, misdirected policies of former President George W. Bush, it is...
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