Robert Amsterdam has an opinion article published in The Moscow Times today: The recent visits to Moscow and Tehran by Hugo Chavez raise a number of concerns about the deepening relations between Russia, Iran and Venezuela. The motivation behind t...
I’ve finally gotten around to looking more closely at the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report, released last week. The report ranks 133 countries on the basis of 12 measures of an economy’s competitiveness...
Fresh off a deal with Venezuela, Russia’s weapons maker appears to have its next willing customer in Saudi Arabia. First reported in English language press on August 29 (Interfax via Bloomberg), we now have significantly more detail on the s...
Coming to this a few days late – the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy account last week of Sibir Energy and its beleaguered top shareholder, former real estate magnate Chalva Tchigirinsky. There’s not a lot new here to anyone wh...
There are a number of media outlets reporting on the most recent NATO-Russia foxtrot, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s call for an “open-minded and unprecedented dialogue” with Russia. Personally, I’d first ra...
TODAY: Medvedev denounces corruption as main problem in Russia, argues business mentality needs transformation, does not rule out standing at 2012 elections and hints at a possible U-turn on Iran. NATO chief calls for closer cooperation with...
This week the Financial Times is running its global health outlook section, and the journalist Miriam Elder (whom you may know from Moscow Times and PostGlobal) has probably the most unique and hard-hitting report: a first person account fro...
OpenDemocracy.net has published translations of correspondence between Mikhail Khdoorkovsky and the famous novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was originally featured in Novaya Gazeta. The conversation is suprisingly frank and full of persona...
What do Danish cartoons of Mohammed, GQ’s axing of Scott Anderson’s Russia article, and Google’s burying of Tiananmen have in common? Here’s what Anne Applebaum sees in her Washington Post column: Nevertheless, the th...
Following the publishing of President Dmitry Medvedev’s extended liberal thought piece, which at least one commentator said may as well have been penned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Kremlin convened a conference yesterday in Yaroslavl entitl...
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