Although it may not be apparent from my recent blog posts, I have just completed a week-long business trip to Latin America. Among the many interesting topics in the news my colleagues and I have been discussing is Ecuador’s decision t...
This one is from an article in the Times of London on Russia sending warships to Cuba for the first time since the days of the Soviet Union. Also see yesterday’s post on the visit of the Nicaraguan president to Moscow. By sending its w...
Photo: Nicaragua‘s President Daniel Ortega, left, shakes hands with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, after a signing ceremony in the Kremlin, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008.AP Photo by Mikhail Metzel) Today the president of Nicaragua, Dani...
His vice presidential candidate, Joe Biden, was the first one to say it during the campaign, and we agreed wholeheartedly that Barack Obama would face a serious test, predicting that it would be Moscow to take the debate. We thought perhaps ...
Defining treason in legal terms is an inherently political process, fraught with bitter contention, weight of history, suspicions of abuse, and no shortage of nationalist grandstanding. But probably not for Russia, which this week introduced...
There are few books that so reflect an author’s mastery of a subject as much as the latest contribution from Jonathan Simon, the Associate Dean of Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California Berkeley. Simon’s ...
From RIA Novosti: Russia’s foreign minister said on Thursday during a TV interview that he was certain that Hillary Clinton would be easier for Russia to work with than her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice. (…) In answering a question as ...
I like Michael Idov. Even when I disagree with his opinions on certain trends in Russia, which is not infrequent, I’m left with the impression of hard-earned restraint. His article posted to The New Republic today examining the choices...
This is certainly scary to read. RFE/RL has an article quoting a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists citing than almost half of the world’s imprisoned journalists are bloggers or online editors/reporters. Russia ...
Fredo Arias-King, whose work on Russia we hold in high regard, recently had an interesting comment piece (part of the NRO Symposium we linked to yesterday) pointing out the potentially problematic revival of Strobe Talbott’s diplomatic caree...
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