There was a rather eyebrow-raising article today for those of us who have spent the past eight years haunted by the images of kneeling orange-hooded men in the maze of barbed wire that is the notorious Guantanomo Bay detention center. Accord...
TODAY: Russia seeks to regain hold over its neighbors; Ex-PM Tymoschenko fears Ukraine break up; Medvedev proposes CSTO membership to Ukraine; NATO’s relationship with Russia. Official who killed child in traffic accident will not face...
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has spoken out about her country’s involvement with Russia in an exclusive interview with The Times. Specifically, she focuses on President Viktor Yanukovych’s raft of new energy d...
TODAY: Journalists face the cost of free speech; Medvedev ousts governors; Stalin’s grandson lawsuit denied; Kremlin angered by Strasbourg ruling; black actor dies after attack. Medvedev honors famine victims as ties with Ukraine impro...
Today we are seeing some wildly different reports of the protests in the mining town of Mezhdurechensk, where last weekend’s disastrous methane explosions killed at least 66 people. According to the Moscow Times, 300 people participate...
Today’s New York Times looks at a new report by the independent research institute the Center for European Reform, which suggests that Central and Eastern Europeans nations feel that NATO pays little heed to their security interests, and tha...
TODAY: Miner protests broken up by OMON officers; senators declare incomes; blue bucket police to be punished; corruption investigation into Luzhkov’s deputy re-opened. Israel concerned by weapons to Syria; Medvedev in Ukraine, Eastern...
(Following a recent speech I gave at Chatham House on Russian perspectives on international law, a junior colleague of mine, whom we shall call “C.M.”, punched up a nice biography of the lawyer Fedor Martens, detailing the life and wor...
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