Right up there with swine achieving flight and hell freezing over, the probability that European bureaucrats would succeed in building the Nabucco natural gas pipeline was, at least up until a year ago, firmly placed in the realm of impossibility....
Ivan Safranchuk, an adviser to the Russian government, recently told the Economist that with regard to the United States, “Moscow’s general policy is one of disengagement.” However others are arguing the precise opposite, t...
From Luke Harding of the Guardian, the latest regrettable attacks on history and the politics of memory in Russia. A group of British academics including the historian Orlando Figes and the poet and translator Robert Chandler have spoken out after...
Last week we had some discussion about Charles Krauthammer’s article criticizing the linkage between offensive and defensive weaponry coming out of the U.S.-Russia Summit. Here Peter Scoblic of the New Republic tees off in disagreement...
Remember back in February when the Russians flew a delegation into Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, offering an extremely generous aid package of about $2 billion? Days later, the local dictatorship revoked the deal with Washington on the Manas air base...
Stanislav Belkovsky is often quite a clown, but usually not a boring one. After all, how many pundits out there like to open an article by quoting themselves? That’s exactly how he begins his latest piece of analysis posted to Ye...
Russian police and prosecutors have failed, rather dismally, to make any progress on capturing the murderer of Forbes journalist Paul Klebnikov. After five years of ineptitude, and thanks to some high diplomacy, it looks like the FBI is goin...
Doyle McManus has an opinion piece in the LA Times arguing that Obamamania has come to end, citing the cold reception he got from Russian audiences. Good riddance, in our opinion, as the world could use a few less cults of personality, and a...
TODAY: Medvedev suggests another turnaround on WTO?; reserve currency symbolically showcased. FBI to be in on Klebnikov investigation; knock-on effects of Cherkizovsky market closure President Medvedev has announced at a post-G8 press conference h...
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