When Obama made his first presidential visit to Russia a few weeks back, the executives from Pepsi hopped along for the ride and took advantage to ink a $1 billion investment in Russia – a direct answer to a similar push from Coca-Cola to fl...
Writing in the Globe and Mail on the recent open letter from Havel and co., John O’Sullivan of the conservative Hudson Institute points out that it is pretty hard for the Obama administration to improve relations with Russia without sufferin...
Poor, poor Moldova. It is really hard to see any exit from their political crisis in the near future. Especially with Russia allegedly surreptitiously providing the police with nice, solid truncheons and other riot gear for the festivi...
Our friend Kerkko Paananen at the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum posts a translation of an article by Igor Averkiev which argues that Russia would be stronger, more secure, and better off if it pulled out of the Caucasus. Averkiev wrote the art...
We didn’t bother making a big deal out of Liz Cheney’s Wall Street Journal article from a few weeks back, which excoriated President Barack Obama for his speech in Moscow, arguing that he seemed a little too nice to the Russians and pr...
The BBC has got an interesting bit here on the memoir former British intelligence agent Anthony Blunt, who shared confidential information with the Soviet Union’s Comintern during and after WWII. Blunt’s regrets and opinions on w...
TODAY: Biden in Georgia expresses support for freedom and territorial integrity; Russia-NATO Council meeting pragmatic. Body of missing Russian activist Andrei Kulagin found, second murder in a week. Nobel laureates plead for jus...
I just saw this big cover splash currently holding down the World section at the Huffington Post. The article is an AP piece about the new law enabling the FSB to open all mail, which as Grigory Pasko pointed out here a few days ago, has bee...
Here the Foreign Minister of Sweden writes on the need for a “reset” on RealClearWorld: The Swedish Presidency, together with the European Commission, intends to organise the first meeting of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum...
Simon Tisdall at the Guardian thinks that Dmitry Medvedev is carving out enough independence to perhaps carry a second term in office. Though his argument is gently suggestive, though there isn’t much evidence to support it. Medvedev, ...
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