Fraser Cameron of the E.U.-Russia Centre provides his appraisal of Dmitry Medvedev’s first year as President of the Russian Federation. Another survey, by the E.U.-Russia Center, shows that most Russians consider the top three issues facing ...
Just when I thought I was all done posting video interviews from my last trip to Washington, I saw Bob’s post today about the Gary Hart and Dmitri Simes article about realism, interests, and the prospects for cooperation between the Obama Ad...
Looking back, 2007 was a fine year. A fat year, thanks to petrodollars, with a barrel of Russian oil selling for 120 dollars in futures trading. Russian oligarchs were beginning to lose their minds from all the wealth and luxury. As we say in Russ...
There’s a new think piece in the National Interest by former Senator Gary Hart and Dmitri K. Simes of Nixon Center about the new efforts to improve the U.S.-Russia relationship. As may be expected, Hart and Simes put forward a realist ...
There’s a piece today in the Financial Times about some modest signs that commodity demand may be picking up to help the Ukrainian economy get itself out of the gutter – though the rough times appear to be far from over. What cau...
Somebody out there in academia should really do a study of how various authoritarian states throughout history have continued to organize elections, despite a glaring lack of democracy. For some, the election has always been an exercise in m...
The boys have been scammed… like suckers. Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. «Nezavisimaya writes»: «Last week, three sensitive blows were inflicted on the international ...
Here’s is perhaps one of the more controversial segments from our interview with Paul Goble, the former State Department official who blogs over at Window on Eurasia. Part of this discussion was related to a blog post written by Goble ...
After the front page story in today’s Financial Times – the Gleb Pavlovsky argument that the president may start to edge out Putin – we have this think piece from Cliff Levy at The New York Times which is likewise bewildered by D...
José Miguel Vivanco, the Americas director of Human Rights Watch, has published an opinion article in today’s Washington Post criticizing the human rights abuses of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Although I am certainly influenc...
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