Here is a link to Robert Amsterdam’s appearance on Canada’s Business News Network (BNN) Market Morning Brief segment to discuss the geopolitical and financial implications of the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute.
Former Secretary of State Larry Eagleburger has a shocking confession about Russia – he apologizes to inform us that he thinks U.S. policies are partly to blame for the deterioration in relations with Russia: “From my perspective, and ...
Back when Betrand Russel declared that “Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who will get the blame,” he probably had not yet envisioned that Russian authoritarian capitalism would function in a similar way (except f...
…is for Russia to maintain an aggressive foreign policy. Joschka Fisher points out this paradox of Russia’s attempts to rollback NATO (which was not an issue of concern whatsoever in years past) actually backfiring, and making th...
An article we posted on the gas war this week pointed out that one reason why Gazprom was getting favorable press (at least early on) was that Europe was feeling exhausted from having to deal with fallout of the Russia-Georgia war and the seemingl...
As our regular readers know, correspondent Grigory Pasko spent much of last year touring the length of the planned route for the Nord Stream pipeline, writing articles, interviewing communities which would be affected, and even making a short docu...
TODAY: Gazprom blames US for ongoing gas dispute; Ukraine says no pressure in gas pipelines; Bulgarian and Slovakian prime ministers to visit Russia and Ukraine; European Commission may advise EU to sue; Russian political freedoms at a low as car ...
Undaunted and unrestrained, Garry Kasparov hammers away again at the Russian leadership in the Wall Street Journal: So the question for Western leaders is whether they doubt Mr. Putin would hesitate to provoke a war in the Middle East. If his regi...
TODAY: Gazprom resumes gas supply to Europe but says Ukraine is blocking deliveries; Putin responds to Medvedev criticism; troubled times for NGOs in Russia; Freedom House report sparks debate on authoritarian states.‘Everything is fine,R...
Over at the FT Brussels Blog, Tony Barber points to a news conference held last week between Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the press corps, in which Russia’s invokes repeated references to Ukrainian food and drink in order to make his po...
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