Tehran Bureau has an article taking a look at why the Russian and Chinese leadership are so firmly tied to the hardliners in Iran. Russia has also exploited the fact that the hardliners in Iran need its protection and assistance. For several years...
The French philosopher André Glucksmann has been one of Europe’s most outspoken advocates in support of liberty of Russian political prisoners, such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Here in City Journal is a translation of a thought piece by G...
If you are a human rights activist in Russia, you are likely risking your life, could have criminal investigations opened against you, get successfully sued for exposing abuses, or even get arrested attending a funeral of one of your fallen collea...
Chen Weidong, a Chinese oil services executive, has published a review of Michael Economides’s book about Yukos and the Russian oil industry on Energy Tribune. The excerpt below is not about Russia, but it was the most shocking part of...
During a business trip to Ghana last year, I got into a casual conversation at one point with a local mining executive about the West-vs.-China dynamic when it comes to thinking about the intersection of business, politics and development aid in A...
This is quite an interesting observation from PoliGazette: At Friday prayers July 17 at Tehran University, the influential cleric and former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani gave his first sermon since Iran’s disputed president...
Reuters points out some members of the CIS are having some disagreements with the Kremlin. This year’s Presidential Cup horse race, a traditional cue for an informal gathering of the 11-member Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), drew o...
I thought we would put up a link to this piece from the New York Times, as it highlights how the situation in Urumqi, China has spiraled out of control – in a way that has the Russian leadership very concerned. “Where were the police w...
Yesterday we had a brief report summarizing the situation of the closure of the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow, which has had a major economic impact on tens of thousands of Chinese merchants and prompted Beijing to complain. The Chinese stat...
Right up there with swine achieving flight and hell freezing over, the probability that European bureaucrats would succeed in building the Nabucco natural gas pipeline was, at least up until a year ago, firmly placed in the realm of impossibility....
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