The small smuggling mob that is the population of South Ossetia is one thing, while the nationalists of Abkhazia are entirely different … and they don’t very much like the idea of getting annexed by Russia. The other day Reuters ...
TODAY: New NATO chief asserts Russia needs to acknowledge sovereignty; nuclear chief fired; Uzbekistan wary of Kremlin’s Kyrgyzstan plans. Moscow-appointed judge in Yukos case to step down. Anniversary of Solzhenitsyn’s death. Th...
Steve LeVine has a blog post up about the William Browder and Hermitage lawsuit against Renaissance … yet points out that the foreign investors will keep on going back for more abuse. We’ve seen this movie before. For instance, BP keep...
James F. Collins of Carnegie Endowment has a column in the Moscow Times about the need to create an institutional apparatus to carry out relations between Moscow and Wasington in a structured and predictable environment … in other words, mak...
The Financial Times has an interesting piece about the former Moldovan Communist Party leader Marian Lupu, who is playing a central role in the current events in Chisinau. Lupu will essentially be the main coordinator of whatever political a...
TODAY: Tensions raised in Georgia; Russia reserves right to use force as question of mortar attacks emerges; Kokoity pledges desire to unite with Russia. Moscow secures second base in Kyrgyzstan; Belarus halts task force. Putin does Ca...
Below is the continuation of Grigory Pasko’s exclusive interview with Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who talks about the Putin-Medvedev diarchy, Gerhard Schroeder, Barack Obama, and the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Read pa...
Writing in the Guardian, Anna Blundy is not all that impressed with the latest contribution to the oligarch literature: Londongrad by Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley The wives and girlfriends “flock” to Courchevel and “des...
In the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, we’ve seen a long record of witness harassment, threats, and intimidation – including the medical blackmail against Vasily Aleksanyan to procure false testimony, and the story of torture against An...
Below is just a taste of a very interesting and intensely argued op/ed published in Vzglyad by author Kirill Benediktov responding to the much-ballyhooed Joe Biden comments. The translation comes via RealClearWorld’s Compass Blog ̵...
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