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L otus Coffman, the fifth president of the University of Minnesota, said: "The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated…
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T he Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) bill, passed by the U.S. Congress with full bi-partisan support, and enacted on August 2, 2017, sparked stormy reactions of some EU…
[dropcap size=small]A padlock stuck on a railroad switch was enough to block Murmansk’s oil terminal for about seven hours, one of the latest episodes of a bizarre corporate conflict in one of the world’s…
[alert type=white ]*This article was co-authored by Madalina Sisu Vicari and Nick Trickett[/alert]
R ussia’s exports amounted to in 2016 $285 billion, led by the following sectors:: hydrocarbons ($176 billion, accounting for 62%), metals (nearly 10…
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O f the various states of the former Soviet Union, Armenia has long been seen as the most loyal, and perhaps most subservient, to Russia. For Russia, its leverage over Armenia…
M onday 11 December, during a surprise visit at the Syrian airbase of Khmeimim, currently leased by Russia, Vladimir Putin announced a partial pullout of the Russian contingent in the country, stating that “over…
L awyers may seem an unlikely bunch to go on strike, especially in Russia. Yet, in September and October, lawyers’ associations in several Russian regions (Sverdlovsk, in the Urals, Chelyabinsk, near Kazakhstan, and Karelia,…
ON Saturday widespread demonstrations started in all major Russian cities, from Saint Petersburg to Vladivostok, the same day of President Putin’s 65th birthday.
The objective was to protest the arrest of opposition leader Alexej…
T he Matryoshka, the famous Russian wooden doll which has another smaller doll within it, and yet another, and then another, and so on. Innocuous by itself, the doll represents a type of cultural…
T he referendum in Kurdistan on Kurdish independence from Iraq has, to say the least, stoked anxiety in regional and international capitals as to what comes next.
Secession would threaten the legitimacy of Iraq’s territorial integrity,…