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A Question of Linkage
According to this piece in TIME, Russia may be on the cusp of changing its policy toward Iran and cooperating with the United States on strengthening sanctions – but maybe not. Although the warmer diplomacy from the Obama administratio...
Gazprom Looks to Lay Pipe in Iran
One minute Russia is talking about the potential for cooperation in mutual interests to help Washington discourage nuclear proliferation in Iran, while the next minute they are selling missile systems and assisting with nuclear technology. F...
These Grim Baltic Shores . . .
Ariel Cohen has a new piece in the Washington Times, which has some very interesting material on Russia’s growing diplomatic overtures to Mongolia to seal up uranium supplies, as well as some info on a letter sent by President Barack Obama t...
Russia’s Handling of North Korea
Yulia Latynina has a new column in the Moscow Times taking a look at Russia’s foreign policy toward North Korea. We love Yulia, but perhaps my only complaint may be is that she is much too moderate and measured in her words. She ...
Video: Kissinger on North Korea and Russia
Nothing breaks up the Monday blues like a yet another video from Henry Kissinger talking about North Korea and Russia. Fast forward to about 10:30 to get to the Russia stuff. The banter is pretty predictable from Kissinger – we a...
Inhuman Rights
In case there were any lingering doubts left among about the morality deficit of the United Nation’s beleaguered Human Rights Council (HRC), this article by Ibn Warraq published in City Journal puts the case to rest. Given that the UN ...
Q&A on Russia and Iran in Venezuela
Had everything gone according to plan, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would have spent the weekend visiting Brazil, Ecuador, and his close friends in Venezuela. However following a carefully worded warnin...
Free Trade for Georgia
Democratic Sen. John Kerry and Republican Congressman David Dreier have published a piece in the Washington Post arguing that one of the best ways for the United States to contribute to Georgia’s security would be a free trade agreement.&nbs...
Gazprom Losing its Grip on Central Asia?
Today the Wall Street Journal is running an interesting piece about a summit to be held on Friday including all the potential participants of the Nabucco pipeline project, breathing fresh live into the embattled EU energy transit project. Th...