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12 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Benaris

International

Gazprom: Angel or Demon?

Gazprom is a behemoth: it is Russia’s largest company, state-controlled and the world’s largest gas producer. Engaged in gas exploration, processing, and transportation, it operates an extensive pipeline network stretching thousands of (...)

29 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Staffjam

International

Iran Isn’t Stalinist Russia

In the October 12 issue of Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria makes a case for containing rather than confronting Iran, partly because he expects “a massive outpouring of support for the Iranian regime” if its nuclear-weapons facilities are attacked by (...)

8 oct. 2009 | | Michael J. Totten

Comment

Russia is the future of Europe

More than a year after Sergei Lavrov’s assertions (June 2008), the only report that comes to mind is that the financial crisis has totally confirmed those assertions. At the dawn of the autumn 2009, the Western world is about to leave History by the (...)

5 Oct. 2009 | 1 comment | Alexandre Latsa

Europe

Melting the Cold War

By Young & Restless EU Watch. The US’s parting ways with its proposed missile defense complex in Poland and the Czech Republic hopefully signals the final stage of the Cold War melting. Obstinate adherence to old Cold War politics may not have (...)

23 sep. 2009 | | Blogactiv Team

International

Russia’s time running out in Ukraine ? Or maybe not..

Paul Goble has written a good summary in his blog of a recent important article published in ’Dzerkalo Tyzhnya’, by Volodymyr Horbulin [who was a National Security and Defence Council secretary under president Kuchma] and Oleksandr Lytvynenko, (...)

23 sep. 2009 | | Foreign Notes

International

The Russians are coming ! The Russians are coming !

Watch, President Medvedev, the man in black, deliver a beligerent 5 minute video [with English subtitles], set against a balmy evening seascape, in which he describes the rapid deterioration of Russian/Ukrainian relations : here What is it with these (...)

13 aoû. 2009 | | Foreign Notes

International

Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a year on

The Georgia-Russia war of August 2008 has altered calculations about the future of the two territories that were central to the conflict. The scholar of Abkhazian linguistics and history, George Hewitt, offers an assessment from Sukhum. A little over a (...)

12 aoû. 2009 | | openDemocracy

International

Obama pressed the reset button with Russia and Biden is trying to stop it!

Good old Biden, Obama tells Russia how great they are we must work together and he wanted to press the reset button after the politics of instigation and bullying Bush practiced and Biden in one fell swoop has tried to undo everything Obama did. I know as (...)

29 Jul. 2009 | | James Joiner

International

Ingushetia abandoned

In the wake of the attempted assassination of Ingushetia’s President Yevkurov, Varvara Pakhomenko offers an authoritative overview of the painful post-Soviet history of Russia’s smallest republic. Can Ingushetia hold on to its independence now (...)

23 jui. 2009 | | openDemocracy

International

Natalya Estemirova : kidnapped and murdered

On 15 July the body of human rights activist Natalya Estremirova was dumped in a wood in Ingushetia. This obituary appeared today on www.polit.ru. Natalya Estemirova, one of the leading activists of the human rights centre ‘Memorial’ in the (...)

17 jui. 2009 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

International

Russian bikers ’invade’ Crimea - with Putin’s blessing

A couple of days ago I read good piece of analysis from a recent "Harvard International Review", by Andreas Umland. [Thanks UkrToday] It includes this passage : "...in 2008, the Moscow leadership demonstrated in Georgia - not the least to (...)

15 jui. 2009 | | Foreign Notes

International

Obama’s Russian Misadventure

The recent representation of America at the Moscow summit delivered a mutually agreed-to target for the removal of some nuclear warheads and launchers. Almost. The relationship was neither improved nor set back, and America achieved little beyond being (...)

13 Jul. 2009 | 1 comment | PacificGatePost

Politics

How To Brainwash A Nation

“This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. (...)

9 Jul. 2009 | | Blogdial

Comment

Legal Nihilism in Russia

In May 2008 the newly-elected President Medvedev, himself a lawyer, promised legal reform in Russia, but there are few signs of it as yet. By Bill Bowring. It is notorious that "telephone justice" was the norm in the Soviet Union. Judges, except (...)

8 jui. 2009 | | openDemocracy

Business

The Russian economy crashed during the first quarter of 2009

The Russian authorities announced today that their national economy had crashed by 23.2% during the first quarter of 2009 compared to the last quarter of 2008. On annual rhythm, the fall is 9.5%, whereas Russian government is expecting a 2.2% decrease (...)

19 May. 2009 | | NYFP

Arts & Entertainment

Europe comes alive to the sound the Eurovision Song contest

The European parliamentary elections may just be over three weeks away, but Saturday sees a much more important "political" event taking place throughout the continent, and probably one which will have a higher participation level. Yes (...)

15 May. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Europe

Moscow, Capital of the European civilisation

On the 25th August 2008 the Financial Times bitterly wrote that Washington was left watching other superpowers modify the world reality. In a 1991 FT edition, such an assertion would only have found its place in a rubric such as ‘’ Catastrophe (...)

9 Apr. 2009 | | Alexandre Latsa

International

Moldova reaching crisis point ?

It seems that another ex-Soviet state on the European fringe is on the brink of revolution following the weekend’s elections in Moldova as students storm the Parliament building and face off against riot police and the military. On Twitter, (...)

8 avr. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

International

Yushchenko vs Tymoshenko : Talk of presidential rule

Prosecutor-General and State Security Service [SBU] thrown at Tymoshenko. Decision by National Security and Defence Council theoretically opens up path to direct presidential rule The war between Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko is gaining momentum. (...)

12 fév. 2009 | | Foreign Notes

International

Aslund on Russian-Ukrainian gas war

I’m posting this article by Anders Aslund in the ’Moscow Times’, in full, in case it goes to ’subscribers-only’ Will the Real Gazprom CEO Please Stand Up The great Russian-Ukrainian gas war is over, and it is time to assess (...)

5 fév. 2009 | | Foreign Notes

Business

Russia to join Nabucco pipeline project ?

Well, that could be one way of diffusing the ongoing EU/CIS standoff over EUropean energy supplies that recently saw death and destruction in Georgia and much of southern/eastern Europe lose gas supplies in the middle of winter. EurActiv reports that (...)

3 fév. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Business

Russia on the way to ecological development?

The importance of ecology seems to be measured even at the Kremlin. The Russian government presented a project to increase the part of renewable energies in the national consumption in order to reach 4.5% in 2020. Currently, less than 1% of the Russian (...)

29 Jan. 2009 | | NYFP

Politics

How Putin became victim of Yulia Tymoshenko’s political schemes

In October 2008 Putin accommodated Tymoshenko’s demands when they both signed a joint gas memorandum in Moscow. She returned to Kyiv full of success. A source in the [Russian] Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained to ’Russian Newsweek’ (...)

29 jan. 2009 | 1 comment | Foreign Notes

International

Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute : Murky deal

At first sight it looks as if the Russian/Ukrainian gas dispute has been resolved. Ukraine will get a 20% discount on the market price for gas in 2009 [whatever that means ], and transit fees paid to Ukraine for transporting gas westward will remain (...)

20 jan. 2009 | | Foreign Notes

Comment

Reading a Non-Trilogy Russian Trilogy

Recently I read three Russian-themed books by separate authors and enjoyed them all. They are not strictly related, but in my mind they stand as a trilogy, starting in 1941, moving to 1953, and then on to the current social miasma that is Russia. In the (...)

6 jan. 2009 | | Kesher Talk

International

The Autocrat, the Foreign Secretary, His Wife & Her Conductor

Even if the rest of the West had a little trouble deciding which side of the fence to launch political missiles from during the Russo-Georgian conflict last summer, the reaction of Foreign Secretary David Miliband was immediate and firm. (...)

17 déc. 2008 | | The Filter^

Comment

Solidarity among the squalid

The "president of South Ossetia" has a special message of brotherhood for Serbia in Glas gadosti. Highlights of his historical-anthropological disquisition : "In the past there existed good relations between the Alana-Ossetians and the Georgians. The (...)

14 aoû. 2008 | | Eric Gordy

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