There’s an interesting editorial in the Japan Times today about how China has made so many inroads into Central Asian energy investment, especially in just the past few years. Many governments in the region, such as Turkmenistan and Ka...
Though not directly related to Russia, this opinion article by Rami G. Khouri published in The Daily Star struck me as intelligent and thoughtful. Whenever it seems as though Russia is beyond Western understanding, we can always take a look ...
Below is a cut of RA’s interview with Al-Jazeera on Kazakhstan: Speaking to Al Jazeera, Robert Amsterdam, an international human rights lawyer, said: “Kazakhstan violates the very prescriptions the OSCE believes it needs to deliver to ...
Blogging over at Steve LeVine’s Oil and Glory, Sasha Meyer has an interesting article about the 1989 revolutions which never caught on in Central Asia, drawing interesting comparisons with Gabon and Egypt. A huge factor depends on what...
The topic of Russia and China’s neighboring border regions is quite fascinating … we often hear about Moscow’s concerns about its Far East, the relative lack of influence the central government has out there against the surging e...
Stephen Walt makes an interesting case for Washington to keep its hands off Iran’s dissident movement and allow events to run their course – drawing an analogy with the Velvet Revolution movement which broke from the Soviet Union in Ea...
“Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can...
Although this was published a few days ago, there is some interesting reading over at Foreign Policy as former KGB head Oleg Kalugin describes his experience planning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. I sure hope Barack Obama is studying u...
Chinese President Hu Jintao was in Turkmenistan today to take part in a historic ceremony: he had the honorary privilege of turning on the tap of a new 1,140-mile natural gas pipeline, the first to take gas out of the vast reserves of Centra...
Alan Philps has a very good article today in the National: A clear cause for the cooling of relations between Moscow and Tehran is the Iranian rejection of a Russian-supported proposal under which Iran would send low-enriched uranium to Russia and...
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