TODAY: NATO and Russia pledge mutual lack of threat, will cooperate on European missile shield; leaders urge START ratification; Beketov protests in Moscow; St Petersburg’s first gay rights demonstration ends prematurely following attack; ti...
An editorial in the Guardian argues that a failure on behalf of the U.S. Senate to ratify the START treaty would cause significant damage to the president’s ability to be taken seriously on the world stage. However the authors fail to ...
In earlier blog postings on this site, Grigory Pasko had been following the story of Lena Maglevannay, a journalist from Volgograd who was chased into exile by government pressure after publishing investigative pieces on the failings and abuses in...
TODAY: NATO summit begins today; US pressured Bout to admit guilt, says Russia; Caspian summit projects united front; activists arrested in elite neighbourhood; Putin to host tiger summit; Kremlin will not investigate Duma income declarations; STA...
James M. Lindsay writes over on CFR.org on Obama’s full court press to get START ratified by the lame duck legislature, echoing the experience of Woodrow Wilson (almost). Not looking so good. The problem is votes. The White House...
Steve LeVine, who is certainly no starry-eyed apparatchik, remarks on just how loony the Congressional debate on START ratification is becoming. Did I miss something? Is the United States — or any other country on the Earth — under thr...
Right in the same week that the police of the Interior Ministry are seeking to have a criminal case opened against the dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, it looks like the procuracy have been kind enough to dismiss charges against Vera Trifonova, a bus...
CNN has a short report on the extradition of Viktor Bout, including an interview with the ubiquitous Douglas Farah. If there’s anything you can say about spending a few years in a Bangkok prison, is that it’s great for weight loss.
Kurt Volker, a former US Ambassador to NATO, has a piece in Christian Science Monitor recommending that Congress wait until later in order to ratify the replacement START treaty with Russia. Volker picks apart the arguments for immediate rat...
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