From the Financial Times: Mr McCain was equally emollient on Mr Obama’s soft-pedalling approach to Russia, in spite of bouts of near cold war rhetoric during the campaign (“We are all Georgians now”). This month, Hillary Clinton,...
Today over on Venezuela Report, my somewhat-new blog on the Russia of Latin America, I have a short post up about the sophisticated propaganda networks used by the government to attack its opponents through the media – frequently featuring i...
In Washington DC this week I had the opportunity to meet with the political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky, the survivor of a political trial, the author of some great books about Russia, and a current analyst for the Hudson Institute. Among oth...
Like a time machine taking us much further back than we wanted, this news clip points out that Russia has its own idea what the “reset” button really means.
Will he or won’t he? Grigory Pasko sent us this Kommersant article (which we have duly exclusively translated below) about the latest twist in a flurry of flip-flopping these past few days as to whether or not Venezuela really has offered to...
The coincidence of these announcements from the Kremlin about placing strategic bombers at Venezuelan and Cuban bases most definitely seems timed to rain on any parade of the meeting between the American and Brazilian presidents. More commen...
The following article by Robert Amsterdam was published today on The Huffington Post: Despite the well worn campaign slogan, so far Washington’s new foreign policy under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to ...
Blogging at the Power Vertical, Robert Coalson points out that the Russians may be disinclined from trying very hard to repair relations with Washington when there is so much to gain from anti-Americanism and the permanent fear of an outside enemy...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Alexander Golts thinks that the Russians are in no hurry to conclude any talks about arms treaties with the United States. The real question is whether Moscow has any desire for a compromise or a new treaty. President ...
This was an amusingly snide comment piece in the Washington Post from Robert Kagan, poking fun at the media’s habit of embracing everything the Obama administration is doing as “new.” Sure, crabby as he is, Kagan does have ...
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