Below is a press release regarding our latest client, the former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, which is being distributed via wire globally today. Please stay tuned to this blog for further news, commentary and information about the Tha...
A pretty clever one from Simon Tisdall in the Guardian: Now Russia is rightly worried about what it has wrought. President Dmitri Medvedev warned recently of anarchy and a “second Afghanistan”. This week the Russian military was told t...
Perhaps NATO can spend its way into influence within the new government in Bishkek, but more and more, it seems like the leverage will play out between the Chinese and Russians, and it’s not clear if they agree on the issue of Manas. F...
How do you see the new interim leader of Krygyzstan? An independent, accidental democrat, or a shill for the siloviki? Blogging at Oil and Glory, Sasha Meyer points out that the usual chorus of agreement among some Russia ske...
I was waiting for somebody to point this out. Despite what the realists may say, it is ultimately not in U.S. interests to abandon values and human rights while kindly looking in the other direction in the face of conveniently oppressive dic...
Surprisingly, there are still some people out there arguing that this isn’t the Kremlin’s aim in Kyrgyzstan: “The American base is not against Russia,” said Alexei Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. “Even the R...
Today should in theory be a positive day in U.S.-Russia relations with the signing of the START replacement treaty in Prague, slashing 30% of each country’s nuclear arsenal establishing verification procedures. That certainly seems to ...
Despite the Russians being the first to recognize Kyrgyzstan’s new leadership (currently led by former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva, but that could change over the next couple days), things are still a complete mess in Bishkek following ...
I was very intrigued by this recent post over on the Volokh Conspiracy discussing an article by Hadi Ghaemi and Aaron Rhodes of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Though I am most often blogging about Russia, Europe, and ev...
The beginning of Anna Badhken’s new article in the Boston Globe comparing the Chechen and Iran conflicts is effusively naively in thinking that Russia’s problems in the Caucasus have been solved, nevertheless the discussion merits some...
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