All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind: In spring of 2012 it became known that the Russian...
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Jesse Zwick at TNR engages in some policing of the left side of the political discourse: What is surprising, however, are the number of decidedly non-crazy American experts and journalists who.
Mark Leon Goldberg and myself talked Russia-Syria on Wednesday:
This week's Over the Horizon column suggests that the Russian arms industry is in for some long term trouble: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s military-industrial complex sustained the massive Soviet military institution, which regularly gobbled up 15-25 percent of the nation’s GDP. In...
Finishing a book manuscript, and so haven't had much time for serious blogging recently. Nevertheless, would like to drag everyone's attention to Dmitry Gorenburg's excellent series on Russia's military relationship.
My latest at WPR takes a look at the Russia-China arms trade: By the middle of the last decade, however, the factors that made the relationship so strong had begun.
isn't happening. I, for one, am shocked.
Two updates to posts from last week. First, Colbert is absolutely brutal to Jennifer Rubin: The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Second,.
Sourcing is a little thin (and by thin, I mean entirely sourced to the Georgian Ministry of the Interior), and implication seems strong (based on Russian behavior in Georgia, we.
This is just outrageous: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed legislation that officially classifies beer as alcohol in Russia. The new law will allow controls on the sale of beer and other "low alcohol" beverages in an attempt to reduce alcohol abuse in Russia, a...
My latest at WPR takes a look at the future of Russian Navy deployments: Consequently, Russia faces a strategic dilemma whenever it makes decisions about the basing of its warships..
One of the more interesting cables revealed by Wikileaks involved a meeting between Russian and US diplomats that touched on the question of Iran-North Korea collaboration. One of the key.