Just got this bit of news from AP: Medvedev wrote Saturday to French President Nicolas Sarkozy — who, holding the EU presidency at the time, authored an Aug. 12 peace plan — to thank him for the “big role” he played in endi...
Good late morning, afternoon from Washington DC. Before I make my way out to the airport to fly back home to London, I thought I would catch up on some of the weekend’s news. Speaking of travel, over the years our correspondent in Russ...
It is very simple. Make a determined effort of complete and total judicial inaction, doing nothing at all to hold anyone accountable for the most high profile journalist murder in recent memory. The message is clear that all such cases...
Anybody who regular uses Twitter may have been frustrated yesterday by the two hour outage, as well as some irregularities at Facebook. What you may not have known is that it was all caused by a massive, coordinated attack against one Georgi...
Given all the news this week of Russia and Italy’s South Stream deal with Turkey in exchange for a nuclear power plant, I thought I would repost an article written by Robert Amsterdam last fall in Energy Risk on Turkey’s political pipe...
When wide scale protests over wage arrears broke out in the town of Pikalyovo, near St. Petersburg, this past June, Vladimir Putin leaped into action to put out the fire. He toured the factories, met with protest leaders, called the Kremlin-...
TODAY: Georgia and Russia, one year on, guns quiet but war of words blazing: who started it? Opposition says democracy far off; humanitarian issues remain; strike on Twitter linked to conflict. Chavez military deal; Russia to calm Uzbe...
Vladimir Putin’s visit to Turkey, where he’s already signed on their support for the South Stream pipeline through Black Sea waters, was also greeted with a couple protests – one from the Chechens, and the other from Greenpeace. ...
From Steven Sestanovich in the Washington Post: Almost all the states of the former Soviet Union are already working with Western governments, and with each other, to increase their independence from Moscow. When Kyrgyzstan lets the United States ...
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