After Kyrgyzstan announced the closure of Manas Air Base, many analysts speculated about Russia’s role in the affair, particularly in light of the $2 billion financial assistance package Russia giftwrapped for its former republic. Today, the...
The chess moves have come early and often in the opening weeks of America and Russia’s “reset” relationship, to quote a phrase much recycled by the media after Joseph Biden’s speech in Munich. But what to make of all this c...
Tucked into a piece of prime midtown Manhattan real estate is the mysterious Russian think tank, the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation. If the name sounds like a spoof by Stanley Kubrick, the institute’s director, Andranik Migranyan, a...
What, exactly, is Russia’s stance on assisting America on the Afghan front of its war on terror? Today, The L.A. Times explores the conundrum of Russian benevolence, a mystery wrapped inside an enigma wrapped inside a Soviet-era presidential...
Actually that headline is a little misleading … the polls are pretty close right now to be predicting very much, and not even Hugo Chávez himself seems to know what he might do next. Nevertheless I’ve got a new piece up over at V...
Crazy days are definitely upon us: Bolivia is turning to Russia to help fight its war against coca production. (This after expelling the American ambassador for Washington’s alleged “conspiracy” against the Bolivian government an...
More than two dozen U.S. lawmakers have sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton encouraging the extradition of Viktor Bout from Thailand, where he was arrested last year in a DEA-orchestrated sting, to ...
There seems to be a growing chorus on the right wing of those adamantly opposed to Joe Biden’s idea of “pressing the reset button” on relations with Russia. After the concessions we’ve seen put forward so far with no ...
Lost in the hubbub of Joe BIden’s ‘reset’ speech was a relatively active past couple of days concerning Russian, American, and European geopolitics in the Arctic. At the end of January, NATO officials met in Iceland, where they d...
The private intelligence agency Stratfor has an interesting article about how the Obama Administration may be using a planned Central European missile defense system as a bargaining chip in talks about nukes with Iran. At a February 10 press confe...
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