Today a press conference was held in Washington DC to announce the presentation of a letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed by eight prestigious human rights NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First...
Henry Kissinger writes on the Obama Administration’s foreign policy today in the Washington Post, and, as usual, he frames most relationships under the aegis of realism (including all the assumptions of rational agency). Though more ab...
The market moves in mysterious ways. This one comes from the Compass blog over at Real Clear World: Even car thieves are now adjusting – there are more and more old Soviet and Russian-made sedans stolen on the streets than ever before....
What happens when the largest exporter of natural gas in Central Asia (and the fourth largest reserves on the planet) declares its open disagreement with the Russia-led natural gas OPEC? At the very least, it makes for an energy conference o...
We’ve written before on this blog about the Russian government’s declaration of “strategic sectors” in the economy, which is another way of saying that they are open game for state intervention, and foreign participation wi...
The Other Russia has posted some translations of reactions to the parole of Yukos lawyer and mother of three Svetlana Bakhmina, including commentary from Lev Ponomarev, Valentina Melnikova, and Grigory Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin). Be...
From the Financial Times article on the parole granted to former Yukos lawyer and political prisoner Svetlana Bakhmina: But analysts and opposition politicians cautioned that the steps looked like little more than gestures and said they were likel...
One of the libraries of Vyborg (Leningrad oblast of Russia) has received a letter with an offer to place in its collection for open access the results of the environmental impact study for the overland portion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. In a...
Below is an excerpt of a frightening, slightly exaggerated, but not entirely untrue opinion article in The Weekly Standard about the Moldova protests by Stephen Schwartz. The new election of an outright Communist government was bound to stimulate ...
A reader has directed my attention to this interesting article by Clifford Levy published in The New York Times about a seemingly unnecessary $1 billion bridge – which would be the longest suspension bridge in the world – connecting Vl...
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