Writing in the Moscow Times, Yevgeny Kiselyov points out that the latest changes to the criminal code on treason present some frightening possibilities. Human rights advocates are in shock. The definition of an “act” of treason is so l...
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece today on a very influential former British Army captain, Ryan Grist, who was serving as an OSCE war monitor in Georgia before he went AWOL across the Russian line on his own improvised fact-finding ...
TODAY: Concerns over potential unrest; bill could impose curfews on teenagers; Russia suggests deal with US on missile defense, blocks UN resolution on Holodomor.Crashing energy prices are stirring concerns about the potential for unrest in Russia...
Marcel H. Van Herpen, who heads up the Cicero Foundation, has released a new paper entitled “Russia, Georgia and the European Union: The Creeping Finlandization of Europe.” As one can observe from the opening allegory in the pape...
Photo: Nicaragua‘s President Daniel Ortega, left, shakes hands with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, after a signing ceremony in the Kremlin, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008.AP Photo by Mikhail Metzel) Today the president of Nicaragua, Dani...
There are probably three moments we can identify over the past six years which may be regarded as the critical junctures in Russia’s relations with Europe and the United States: 1) the state’s theft of Yukos, 2) the 2006 New Year...
His vice presidential candidate, Joe Biden, was the first one to say it during the campaign, and we agreed wholeheartedly that Barack Obama would face a serious test, predicting that it would be Moscow to take the debate. We thought perhaps ...
We have seen the policy become implemented in incremental steps – a new history textbook here, closed access to historical records there, mounting pressure on reconciliation and truth groups, and even a television poll for the most important...
TODAY: Motorist protests are first sign of public anger over financial crisis, activists concerned over widening of treason definition; Russia to give Lebanon fighter jets; Medvedev to have early meeting with Obama.Protests by Russian motorists on...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Yulia Latynina thinks that that the Russian government should be more worried about losing territory to China in the long-term than collective security in Europe in the short term. The answer: focus on economic d...
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