As many friends, colleagues, and readers of this blog are aware, for more than a year I have been working along with an international team to support Nasir El-Rufai, the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja, Nigeria, and defen...
Here’s a little story we picked up on the RIA Novosti tourism news website. A significant part of the income of Russia’s new client statelet, Abkhazia, comes from the Russian tourists who visit the balmy shores of the Black Sea. Since ...
Whenever one conjures an image of a slick and stealth Russian spy, you might think of the lethal efficiency of Andrei Lugovoi or perhaps the more literary John Le Carre-invented spymaster Karla. What you might not imagine is that one of the ...
The Deepwater oil spill is expected to reach US shorelines today. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov continues Russia’s energy offensive, pledging the country’s commitment to integrating the Kaliningrad nuclear plant with Europe̵...
The New York Times on the Daimler case: ‘the latest in a series of cross-border investigations into corporate bribery that appears to reflect a stark difference in how Russian and foreign governments approach corruption‘. Dm...
TODAY: Stalin posters still a bone of contention; Russia to demand greater powers over adoptees in the U.S.; mayor taken hostage; smiles found lacking; Freedom House; metro militant killed?; Lavrov sounds threatening over Iran; Ukraine partnering ...
We all know that the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) grouping of emerging economies is a compelling concept, but the hype is just getting completely disproportionate to the economic and geopolitical reality. This video segment from A...
Probably the most well known contemporary political assassination of a Russian citizen abroad, aside from the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, was the killing of Umar Israilov in Vienna in January 2009. Israilov, a Chechen exile and a form...
So to the surprise of approximately no one, the Kremlin finally reaped its first post-election rewards in Ukraine, when they bought themselves an extension of the lease for the naval base at Sevastopol in exchange for a cheap gas package for their...
The U.S. Coast Guard is saying that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is likely five times worse than previous estimates suggested, after a new leak was discovered. Shell has sent in reinforcements to try and help clear the slick. ...
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