Human rights abuses in Turkmenistan, Central Asia’s largest gas producer as a presumed primary contributor to the proposed Nabucco pipeline, are just as prolific under a new president as they were under Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled the coun...
For some time now, it has seemed as though the Russian foreign policy decision making process has been guided by some very simple principles – 1) will this given measure make things more difficult for Washington, and/or 2) will it increase t...
The GULAG and its rules Grigory Pasko, journalist I want to apologize to alert readers right from the start: I have no doubt that some of the examples I’m about to give are going to appear familiar to them. The fact is that on this topic ...
The empire’s gone, but the ambitions remain Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In the nearest future, a new geographic map will be published in Russia in which Abkhazia a...
Whenever I catch a headline reading something like “Russian Officials Charged with Corruption” I have to remind myself to not take it at face value, especially when the head of the investigative committee is not without his own allegat...
There seems to be a growing chorus on the right wing of those adamantly opposed to Joe Biden’s idea of “pressing the reset button” on relations with Russia. After the concessions we’ve seen put forward so far with no ...
The following opinion article by Robert Amsterdam was published in Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung. In a shock to German consumers and politicians of all stripes, on January 1, 2016, Russia suspended supplies of gas to Germany through the Nord...
Lost in the hubbub of Joe BIden’s ‘reset’ speech was a relatively active past couple of days concerning Russian, American, and European geopolitics in the Arctic. At the end of January, NATO officials met in Iceland, where they d...
TODAY: IT revolution and pollution on the government’s agenda; Maria Sergeyeva: polarizing the blogosphere; Rogozin baits NATO; US-Russia space collision creates debris; schoolteacher may be fired for protesting.President Dmitry Medvedev has...
There were a couple of interesting developments today that suggested the ways in which U.S.-Russia relations might play out under the Obama administration. Firstly, U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns, a former ambassador in Russia, met wit...
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