Remember back in February when the Russians flew a delegation into Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, offering an extremely generous aid package of about $2 billion? Days later, the local dictatorship revoked the deal with Washington on the Manas air base...
Doyle McManus has an opinion piece in the LA Times arguing that Obamamania has come to end, citing the cold reception he got from Russian audiences. Good riddance, in our opinion, as the world could use a few less cults of personality, and a...
Alan Cowell has an interesting piece in the New York Times today: In some of the same lands described by President George W. Bush as an axis of evil, the Obama administration confronts an arc of obduracy from Pyongyang to Tehran. The riddle persis...
Remember the good ‘ole times from back in the summer of 2006? Russia was about to host the G8 Summit, Anna Politkovskaya and Stanislav Markelov were still alive and working hard, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky had only been in the gulag 2.5 ...
Here’s the latest article by Robert Amsterdam posted to Huffington Post: President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev should be good friends by now. Following his visit with the family to the Kremlin earlier this week, ...
We often hear from U.S. observers all about the mutual interests that Washington and the Kremlin share in curbing Iran’s march toward nuclear proliferation and other indications of growing hostility, yet it’s funny how we usually see n...
From Yulia Latynina’s column in the Moscow Times: On June 17, President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao signed an agreement in which Russia will sell 300 million tons of oil to China over 20 years for $100 billion. That break...
Robert Amsterdam has a new blog post up over on Huffington Post about Obama’s approach to Iran and Venezuela. Here is a short excerpt: There are two reasons why both the authoritarians of Persia and the Orinoco Belt represent a common ...
Robert Amsterdam was interviewed on the Lionel Show on Air America, discussing the Iran-Venezuela link, Eligio Cedeño and the new white paper, as well as some discussion about Russia:
Garry Kasparov’s column in the Wall Street Journal today expounds on the significance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s choice of Moscow as a good place to during the electoral turmoil to prove his international legitimacy. He argues that...
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