It’s been a while since we’ve heard news from that other problematic frozen conflict in Moldova, Transnistria, where separatists groups are more hopeful than ever that the invasion and occupation of regions of Georgia by Russian milita...
Deng Xiao Pu and his team Grigory Pasko, journalist Recently in the Russian mass information media there appeared a publication, the main theme of which was – the rating of the broadcast “A Talk with Vladimir Putin”, which had be...
There’s a confusing editorial today in the Boston Globe, which draws heavily on the assumption that it is up to President-elect Barack Obama to draw up a plan to intervene in the Russia-Ukraine natural gas supply disputes, and that the key t...
TODAY: China and Russia establish high military links, Putin holds cabinet meeting on crisis, promising continuity, Stalin comes in third, predictions of a U.S. collapse, Gaddafi defends Russia, anger over Israel’s Gaza bombings, Gazprom-Ukr...
By the time you read this exclusive translation, the original article will probably have been pulled from the net by censors. We found this remarkable posting in the “Forum” section of the official website of the MVD RF – the Min...
From Denis MacShane on Comment is Free: Now, the Kremlin has thrown down a new challenge to Sarkozy, to the EU, and to the OSCE (one of the most important examples of successful US diplomacy) at a time when Washington preferred jaw-jaw to war-war....
Here’s a story of a peculiar accident from the Daily Mail, but interestingly enough, the tax authorities re-opened their claims against the British Council several days earlier. A British diplomat in Moscow knocked over a pedestrian who turn...
From the intro of a very interesting story in tomorrow’s Washington Post by Tara Bahrampour, which seeks to provide a glimpse of the human side of the conflict in Georgia. This fall, as I was preparing to travel to the Georgian breakaway reg...
I must confess that I was expecting this New York Times editorial on President-elect Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin to be much, much worse. Still, most everyone who has found their way to this blog is likely way above this shallow treatment...
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