According to this piece in TIME, Russia may be on the cusp of changing its policy toward Iran and cooperating with the United States on strengthening sanctions – but maybe not. Although the warmer diplomacy from the Obama administratio...
The clock is ticking down to the much awaited first visit of President Barack Obama to Moscow on July 6-8, and the once high expectations of “reset diplomacy” are undergoing a sharp re-negotiation among the policy circles of Washington...
Some quotes from Italian financial analyst Federico Bordonaro posted on RFE/RL: He notes that Gazprom “benefitted enormously” from the steep rise in oil and natural-gas prices in recent years, and then suffered a “huge blow”...
It appears we Russians have been worried over nothing in Chechnya and the North Caucasus. According to a report filed on Grani.ru quoting FSB director Alexander Bortnikov (right photo), reports of the rapidly escalating political crisis are ...
Here the Russian human rights activist Natalya Gorbanevskaya, who comments “I think now no one doubts anymore that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are clearly prisoners of conscience.” To turn on the English subtitles, just hit the butt...
I’ve been forwarded a link to a new documentary film being debuted at the Human Rights Watch film festival in New York City about the struggles of opposition leader Garry Kasparov (who will be present to speak at the Monday screening). ...
One minute Russia is talking about the potential for cooperation in mutual interests to help Washington discourage nuclear proliferation in Iran, while the next minute they are selling missile systems and assisting with nuclear technology. F...
The Associated Press is running a story on some comments made by President Medvedev during a television address following meetings with Yabloko party representatives. Considering the elements that Medvedev and other liberal reformers are up ...
Robert Amsterdam has a new by-lined article on the latest developments in the Mikhail Khodorkovsky trial published on the legal news website JURIST. Rejection of appeal is latest example of due process failures in Khodorkovsky case Robert Amsterda...
Along with the immediate need for Washington to ditch the insult of Jackson-Vanik, Russia’s ascension to the World Trade Organization is another measure which this blog has strongly supported. However, it appears that Moscow has become...
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