EU Seeks Turkmen, Azeri Gas Accord to Reduce Russian Dependence
The European Union is seeking an agreement on a natural-gas pipeline between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan as the 27-nation bloc aims to import Caspian fuel and reduce its dependence on Russia.
Moscow wrong to write off Western Ukraine as inevitably anti-Russian
Russian officials are making a costly and two-fold mistake in viewing Ukraine as a country permanently divided between a virulently nationalistic and Russophobic West and a Russian-speaking and pro-Moscow East, according to a senior analyst at the Moscow Institute of CIS Countries
Ukraine to plug $2 billion budget gap with IMF loan
Ukraine will use $2 billion out of its new $15 billion IMF facility to finance its budget deficit this year and will stick to tight fiscal targets imposed by the deal
Russia Unveils Privatization Plan as Largest US Investor Divests
Russia has announced the largest privatization program since the post-communist sales of the early 1990s.
Cyberwar Is Hell
While we obsessed over Russian spies, top diplomats were working to stop a greater espionage problem: the threat of cyberwarfare.
China and Russia sign power-grid agreement
British Prime Minister David Cameron wooed Indian business leaders Wednesday in a remarkable pitch aimed at revitalizing his nation's economy with help from the burgeoning Asian power it once ruled.
Russia welcomes Iran’s readiness to discuss fuel exchange
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Anderi Nesterenko in a statement published here on Tuesday welcomed Iran’s readiness for technical talks in the field of exchanging nuclear fuel for Tehran Research Reactor.
The Kremlin’s New Policy in Its Near Abroad
In August 2008, Russia’s relations with its post-Soviet neighbors reached an all-time low in the aftermath of the Russia-Georgia war. Not one single country in the region recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia because it would have endangered its own claim to territorial integrity.
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