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Alexei Arbatov, 14 - 10 - 2008

     Alexei Arbatov considers the possibility of a military conflict in which Russia, defeated with conventional weapons, would strike back with nuclear weapons with unpredictable consequences.  In his response to the former British ambassador in Moscow Sir Roderic Lyne, Alexei Arbatov also suggests how this fatal course of events might be avoided.

Reading Russia, rewiring the west

Roderic Lyne, 12 - 10 - 2008

What does Russia want; how should Nato and the EU respond? An ex-ambassador to Moscow looks ahead  Plus: time to get real, says Charles Grant 

Why are they without a Parliament again?

Andrei Levkin, 10 - 10 - 2008

Ukrainian politics is a mess. Russian e-zine www.polit.ru's  editor-in-chief Andrei Levkin attempts to throw light at the political maneuvering before the forthcoming snap parliamentary elections.

Ukraine, never ending story

9 - 10 - 2008

  Only four years ago Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Timoshenko were close political allies. Their Orange Revolution impressed the whole world. Their bitter rivalry now led to snap parliamentary elections scheduled for 7 December.

Ukraine: broken orange

Taras Kuzio, 7 - 10 - 2008

A larger Europe-Russia crisis lights the fuse of Kyiv's bitter political rivalries (archive)

Welcome to the Suicide Club. Notes on the Moscow property market

Natalya Spitsyna , 7 - 10 - 2008

The whole world is in the grip of an economic crisis.  Most countries have been through similar extremely difficult periods at some point in their history, but Russia has only encountered concepts such as the mortgage and violent  stock market fluctuations in the last 17 years.  Natalya Spitsyna gives a detailed overview of the way the Moscow property market has been affected.

The paradoxes of power

Natalia Leshchenko, 2 - 10 - 2008

Alexander Lukashenka has won a total victory. But is that what Belarus's president wanted?

Russia's life-or-death choice

Roger Hood, 1 - 10 - 2008

Why it's time for the state to say that execution contravenes a deeper law

McCain & Obama Are Both Wrong on Georgia

Patrik Shirak, 30 - 09 - 2008

The next American president, together with the efforts from European allies, must address failed strategies of the past in order to prevent the West (and Georgia for that matter) from stumbling into an expanded war in the Caucasus. 

Europe and Russia: do’s and don’ts

Katinka Barysch, 30 - 09 - 2008

The Caucasus war is Europe's opportunity for coherence vis-a-vis Moscow. Here's how to take it

Who is Alexander Dugin?

Andreas Umland, 26 - 09 - 2008

The Russian extreme right, including some of its crypto-fascist sections, is becoming an ever more influential part of Moscow mainstream public discourse. Its influence can be felt in Russia's mass media, academia, civil society, arts, and politics.

Nato and Russia: from peril to progress

Aviel Roshwald, 23 - 09 - 2008

The inclusion of Georgia and Ukraine in Nato is a flawed aim that guarantees conflict with Russia

After Georgia: the citizen test

Martin Shaw, 22 - 09 - 2008

The Caucasus war exposes a failure of global leadership. It's time for a new citizens' movement

The Russian Economy and the Georgian War

Dmitri Travin, 18 - 09 - 2008

Trading on the Russian stock market has been suspended for two days. In this penetrating article Dmitri Travin examines some of the reasons for the current panic and the effect the war with Georgia has had on the Russian economy.

The new Russia and how to deal with it

Charles Grant, 18 - 09 - 2008

After the recent Valdai Club meeting with Russian leaders, Charles Grant fears any attempt to push Russia towards a liberal democracy would be counter-productive. What the West can and should do is influence Russia's behaviour on the international stage.

A month after the war

Tanya Lokshina, 16 - 09 - 2008

"The house has only just burnt down." The aged Georgian villagers of South Ossetia need help 

Russia's way: the Putin factor

Dmitri Travin, 15 - 09 - 2008

The ex-president's combative outlook has shaped Russia's policy towards Georgia and the west

The world after the Caucasus war

Rein Müllerson, 15 - 09 - 2008

The Russia-Georgia conflict is global as well as regional. How to avoid a new era of confrontation?

EITI: a new global standard for lying

Julia Gouseva, 11 - 09 - 2008

Countries like Russia ‘cursed' with natural resources need effective international scrutiny to ensure that the profits benefit society. But the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative proposed by Blair only whitewashes corruption and enriches the auditors, Julia Gouseva explains.

Europe's global role: the Russia test

Paul Gillespie, 10 - 09 - 2008

The Georgia-Russia crisis is a challenge to Europe to make its own foreign policy tell

Georgia's forgotten legacy

Vicken Cheterian, 3 - 09 - 2008

Georgia must turn to the past to find the future

Russia: the opposition that melted

Dmitri Travin, 3 - 09 - 2008

Where did Russia's political opposition go? The story begins in the early 1990s...

Tskhinvali’s apocalypse

Tanya Lokshina, 1 - 09 - 2008

A stunning report from South Ossetia's capital. Plus: Ivan Sukhov on Russia's post-war Caucasus trouble, Inal Khashig on the west's Abkhaz lesson, Zygmunt Dzieciolowski on Sukhumi's independence case

Russia and the Georgia war: the great-power trap

Ivan Krastev, 31 - 08 - 2008

Russia 19th-century thinking could yet snatch defeat from its 21st-century victory in Georgia

Moscow's victory toll

Ivan Sukhov, 29 - 08 - 2008

Russia's Caucasus policy means domestic trouble, says Ivan Sukhov

 

Abkhazia's lesson to the west

Inal Khashig, 28 - 08 - 2008

The west is responsible for the outcome it opposes

Abkhazia's card, Russia's game

Zygmunt Dzieciolowski, 27 - 08 - 2008

A new Black Sea state emerges from the Georgia-Russia war. But how independent is it?

 

Sovereignty, status and the humanitarian perspective

Mary Kaldor, 26 - 08 - 2008

A focus on human safety and return of displaced persons ought to guide attitudes to Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence

Pepsikolka's Poti occupation blog, part 4

pepsikolka, 25 - 08 - 2008

As Russian troops destroy the naval base at Poti, Pepsikolka chronicles the damage and street protest. She grieves at the hatred her blog is provoking from Russian readers, and the deafening silence from the Georgians whose plight she shares.

Russia and Iran: the rest vs the west

Paul Rogers, 24 - 08 - 2008

Moscow’s war in Georgia and Tehran’s nuclear project highlight the west's strategic failings

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