Why Kiev made a dramatic U-turn back toward Moscow
In the space of a few weeks, Ukraine has executed a stunning geopolitical pirouette.
Kiev Is Cool to Putin's Gas-Merger Proposal
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych responded coolly Thursday to a Russian proposal to merge the two countries' gas companies, saying even his Kremlin-friendly administration might ignore the idea.
Obama Plans Revival of Russian Nuclear Deal
President Obama is preparing to revive a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Moscow that his predecessor shelved two years ago in protest of Russia’s war with Georgia, an American ally, administration officials said Thursday.
Ukraine To 'balance Relations' With Strategic Partners In East And The West
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said his government is interested to pursue a foreign policy that will balance relations with its strategic partners, both in the East and the West.
Time for a nuclear samba
Brazil has advanced a proposal to unblock the Iranian nuclear dossier that is in fact the common view among the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the emerging geopolitical counter-power to United States hegemony.
Russia's overtures to Ukraine come while EU is preoccupied
Russia's proposal to combine its gas export monopoly Gazprom with the Ukrainian state energy company was part of a strategy to lock in assets while Europe focused on Greece, Alexander Rahr, a Russia expert at the German council on foreign relations, said on Tuesday.
'Alien abduction' prompts Russian security questions
A Russian MP asks President Medvedev to look into claims by a regional president that he met aliens on board a spaceship.
Black Hole on the Black Sea
Last fall, I boarded a ramshackle bus winding through the villages and vineyards on the Georgian side of the demarcation line with the breakaway region of South Ossetia. I was there to see what I could learn about the dangers of nuclear smuggling.
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