Washington DC think tank Heritage Foundation has released a new report today containing “realistic policy proposals” for the administration of Barack Obama to address relations with Russia and strategy in Eurasia. The report is e...
Comrade Sechin, the oil economist? Grigory Pasko, journalist Inasmuch as I’m not an economist, I didn’t pay much attention to a report from the Bloomberg agency. However, there are more observant people on Live Journal. One of them, a ...
This was an amusingly snide comment piece in the Washington Post from Robert Kagan, poking fun at the media’s habit of embracing everything the Obama administration is doing as “new.” Sure, crabby as he is, Kagan does have ...
New Khodorkovsky Trial Presents Test for Medvedev (Bloomberg) “In this trial we’re dealing with a president who has attacked the very legal nihilism that we identified in the first trial,” Robert Amsterdam said in London today in...
The building of a “new economic architecture” and a counterweight to NATO doesn’t happen overnight, and despite the doldrums and credit crisis, the Kremlin is still hobbling towards its goals in the East. Have both Washinto...
A day after Rosneft and Transneft secured a $25 billion loan with China in return for providing 20 years worth of oil from East Siberia, Russia has opened its first LNG plant, capable of providing five percent of world demand when running at full ...
Human rights abuses in Turkmenistan, Central Asia’s largest gas producer as a presumed primary contributor to the proposed Nabucco pipeline, are just as prolific under a new president as they were under Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled the coun...
For some time now, it has seemed as though the Russian foreign policy decision making process has been guided by some very simple principles – 1) will this given measure make things more difficult for Washington, and/or 2) will it increase t...
Sure, Bakiyev went to Moscow and picked up a couple of billion dollars to close the U.S. airbase, but one can see how the decision was made easier. From the Associated Press: The Manas base is the only U.S. toehold in strategic Central Asia,...
Pat Frost at Great Power Politics blogs on the Russia-influenced closure of the Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan. According to the AP, the Russians deny any connection between the aid deal and the air base, but “many experts saw Kyrgyzstan...
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