The Partnership Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the European Union and the Russian Federation, which will reopen for talks in early December, sounds and feels very appealing from afar. Like any well marketed piece of diplomacy, it contai...
Today Paul Goble blogs about a recent article in the New Times by Valery Panyushkin, which argues that Russia under Vladimir Putin is rapidly beginning to look like the Russia of Leonid Brezhnev. A few years back, Bob also wrote that soverei...
This weekend there were reports that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Polish President Lech Kaczynski encountered gunfire at a Russian controlled checkpoint in South Ossetia. No one was harmed, but the chance for potential conseque...
Last week the local Polish newspaper Dziennik Polski published an interview with Jadwiga Rogoza from the Eastern Studies Centre, who spoke about the problem of judicial independence in Russia’s legal system as showcased by the current trial ...
Javier Marias has an article in the New Republic, pointing out that no matter how terrible your predicament, one can’t help but compare it to something seen on television or in popular film. The same goes for our perceptions of our political...
TODAY: Medvedev meets Bush for the last time, travels to Latin America to strengthen ties; Georgian president accuses Russian troops of firing on him in South Ossetia; Lugovoi will visit UK if granted immunity; Supreme Court to investigate closing...
Many were surprised by the universally hostile reaction in Spain to the on-again-off-again interest from Gazprom in acquiring a 30% stake in Repsol – one of the biggest private energy companies remaining in Europe. In fact, it seemed as tho...
This comes from an op/ed in the Washington Times by William F. Shughart II of the Independent Institute: When its tanks rolled into Georgia, the Kremlin sent notice it intends to dominate the oil and natural gas resources of the former Soviet repu...
Liesl Schillinger at the New York Times reviews Owen Matthews’ book Stalin’s Children: His parents, he learned, met and fell in love in Moscow in 1963, while his father was doing graduate work at Moscow State University. After they tri...
With the APEC Summit getting underway this weekend in Lima, Peru, the world’s eyes are on Latin America, focusing with unusual interest over this oft-forgotten continent, looking for an indication of the prevailing economic winds. Natu...
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