Forget oil pipelines or arms deals, Russia’s influence in Latin America has hit another major financial nerve ending: casinos. As The Miami Herald reports, Russia’s Ritzio Entertainment Group manages a string of successful bingo halls ...
What, exactly, were the motivations behind Kyrgyzstan’s decision to kick the Americans out of Manas air base, a strategic military installation for the war in Afghanistan? In the days since the announcement, speculation has ranged from Russi...
The Chicago Tribune hits the streets with Russia’s discontented masses, including a cosmetics company manager who literally stopped her car on a busy road to join an anti-Kremlin protest. Says Sergei Guriev, rector of the New Economic School...
TODAY: Russia and US ‘in agreement’ on Afghanistan despite Kyrgyz base closure; Medvedev will not comment on Biden speech; more Georgia tensions; economists, opposition and presidential advisers displeased with government’s handl...
It was not the greatest speech and it was not the worst, but Vice President Joseph Biden’s declaration of principles on the U.S.-Russia relationship made during this weekend’s Munich security conference made clear that despite all the ...
The following is an article on the aftermath of the Russia-Ukraine gas crisis by Andrew Wilson, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), which was originally published in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 27. Avoidin...
Mats Johansson, an MP from Sweden’s Moderate Party, has a brief comment up over at The Stockholm Observer about the security issues surrounding the passage of the Nord Stream pipeline through Swedish waters. Mr. Johansson kindly links ...
Eric Reguly has an extensive piece on the shifting fortunes of the fortunate in today’s Globe and Mail: Mr. Prokhorov loves basketball and played well. He made almost half of his foul shots and graciously avoided using his height and skills ...
Today there was a notable exchange between PM Vladimir Putin and EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso, when the latter raised his concerns over the murder of Stanislav Markelov and other notable human rights abuses occurring in Russia. ...
Thy tongue – thine enemy Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. For starters, a joke. A man comes to a rabbi: “Rebbe, I’m a Jew, but I don’t know the langua...
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