Martin Wolf at the Financial Times wonders if the U.S. is the new Russia. Is the US Russia? The question seems provocative, if not outrageous. Yet the person asking it is Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and...
We’ve been carefully following Gazprom’s efforts to break into the U.S. market for several years now, but they don’t seem to be getting anywhere closer. Despite opening a trading office in Houston and holding vague talks wi...
Thousands of miles away from Russia, where the judicial farce otherwise known as the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky is playing out, there is another case which gives one much greater optimism for the advance of international legal precedent:...
Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation has an interesting op/ed in the Washington Times arguing for greater attention to rule of law, which in all likelihood will not make its way onto the busy agenda for the meeting today between Barack Obama and...
Is there any room left any more for values-based diplomacy, or has everything slipped back into realism of great power politics? As Barack Obama makes his rounds at the G20 meeting in London this week, it appears that “principles”...
On Tuesday in Moscow the first hearings will be held for the so-called “second trial” of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, though to use such language of legalism may be misleading in describing this process. In the preliminary hearings lead...
Washington DC think tank Heritage Foundation has released a new report today containing “realistic policy proposals” for the administration of Barack Obama to address relations with Russia and strategy in Eurasia. The report is e...
The Financial Times has an editorial on next Wednesday’s first meeting between Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev. The two sides are now accelerating talks on a new strategic arms reduction treaty to replace Start 1 before it expires in Decemb...
A message to Moscow: do not underestimate the new US President. The Obama administration has put out clear signals to Russia about real possibilities for engagement. Many Russian commentators believe that the new US administration ‘needsR...
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