I was quite alarmed this past weekend to read about the murder of the Guatemalan lawyer Roberto Rosenberg, which to me recalled the brutal, mafia-like slaying of Russian lawyer Stanislav Markelov. As someone who has worked on a politically v...
Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University has a post on TPM criticizing President Barack Obama’s “zero” nuclear weapons ambitions, pointing out the false assumption that whatever arrangement the U.S. and Russia work out, tha...
Had everything gone according to plan, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would have spent the weekend visiting Brazil, Ecuador, and his close friends in Venezuela. However following a carefully worded warnin...
Reuters is reporting that the new U.S. President will visit Russia on July 6-8. What do you want to be he gets to sign a replacement for the START treaty?
Russia has made some brash moves in the past couple weeks. They chucked out two Canadian diplomats, broke the ceasefire agreement in Georgia by advancing their troops to the borders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and even had one Duma member...
I personally don’t subscribe to the idea that Washington holds Latin America in the same regard as Moscow does the former states of the Soviet Union. Certainly, throughout history there has been no shortage of unfortunate if not brutal...
It appears that after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has dedicated such a large portion of budget, making his country the largest buyer of Russian arms in the world, that the products he’s acquiring from Moscow are of pretty shoddy quality...
First Russia extended their troops to the borders of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, then there was a rebellion of a tank battalion, followed by the expulsion of two Canadian diplomats working for NATO. Kind of like a tit-for-tat and tat in resp...
It seems that if Russia wanted to do something dramatic about Georgia, now would be the perfect time, given that Barack Obama’s options may be more constrained now than in the future and Mikheil Saakashvili is on political death watch. ...
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