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Ukraine's election - Insults and political calcultions
Foreign public relations companies in the service of mud-slinging candidates look set to provide a dirty second round in the Ukrainian presidential election, while prominent runners-up keep their cards up their sleeves, waiting to see who wins.
3 February 2010 - Full text...
Thirty-one Days - 01-31 January, 2010
Chronology and Internet guide to Russia/Eurasia-related events in the international press during January, 2010
1 February 2010 - Full text...
European Security - Answering Russia’s proposal
A Belgian military expert prefigures the Western response to Russia’s call for a binding European Security Treaty
26 January 2010 - Full text...
Kazakhstan and OSCE - Stand by for shocks
For Nursultan Nazarbaev, Kazakhstan’s presidency of OSCE, which opened on 1 January, is the high point of his political life. Already it looks highly unusual, and it's only just beginning.
18 January 2010 - Full text...
Ukraine's presidential election - Skidding on Orange peel
Ukraine’s presidential election (first round on Sunday 17 January) is still open except for the certain defeat of president Yushchenko. Whoever wins, there is bound to be a disturbed post-election scene, awaiting settlement by yet another, parliamentary, election.
15 January 2010 - Full text...
Thirty-one Days - 01-31 December, 2009
Chronology and Internet guide to Russia/Eurasia-related items in the international press during December 2009
7 January 2010 - Full text...
Russia at Copenhagen - The dog that didn’t bark
Many people were struck by the absence of a Russian representative when the presidents of five major powers – the US, China, the EU, South Africa and Brazil – signed a non-binding agreement at the UN conference on global warming. Its reasons are complex, but disappointing to conservationists who hoped for a more positive contribution.
26 December 2009 - Full text...
Ukraine plunges, unaided - Adrift from Brussels and the IMF
The 13th EU-Ukraine summit in Kiev on 4 December was emptied of meaning by Ukraine’s murky politics. With only weeks to go, nobody - in Washington, Moscow or Brussels - cares to gamble on the outcome of next month’s presidential election as incumbent Viktor Yushchenko continues to dig himself into an ever-deeper hole.
22 December 2009 - Full text...
EU-Russia summit echoes - A new start for the energy dialogue.
The European Union and Russia have a chance to co-operate in resolving old differences, thanks to a easier mood by both sides at last month’s summit in Stockholm.
14 December 2009 - Full text...
Thirty Days - 01-30 November , 2009
Chronology and Internet guide to Russia/Eurasia-related events in the international press during November 2009
7 December 2009 - Full text...
Russia and the West - How a Cold War 'settlement' unravelled
An article in the West’s foremost strategic studies journal blames American short-sightedness for the breakdown of a chance to consolidate Russia-West relations
6 December 2009 - Full text...
Russia and the EU - Warm words for new policy chiefs
The appointment of Herman Van Rompuy as president of the EU Council and of Catherine Ashton as high representative for foreign affairs and security, could mean a turn for the better for Russia-West relations, says Moscow.
30 November 2009 - Full text...
United Russia - A vote too far
President Medvedev’s criticism of United Russia’s election practices suggests an impending shake-up of the electoral system
24 November 2009 - Full text...
Russia 20 Years on - How far it has come, where it will go
An expert reviews changes in Russia-West relations since the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan and the fall of the Berlin Wall
19 November 2009 - Full text...
Ukraine - The complete pre-election picture
Helped by a flu epidemic, Viktor Yushchenko could still wriggle out of a presidential election in which he will otherwise be humiliated.
11 November 2009 - Full text...
Thirty Days - 01-30 October, 2009
Chronology and Internet guide to Russia/Eurasia-related events in the international press during October 2009
28 October 2009 - Full text...
Replacing START-1 - ABM trouble again, as time runs out
America’s new missile plan, and its acceptance by Poland and the Czech Republic, will complicate US and Russian attempts to replace START-1 before it expires.
27 October 2009 - Full text...
Russia and its Arctic neighbours - Threats to a ‘zone of peace’
A political scientist addresses environmental, economic and strategic challenges resulting from the melting of the Arctic ice cap.
19 October 2009 - Full text...
Moldova's new management - Premier offers hope of a breakthrough
As hopes grow of the opposition’s readiness to assist in the election of a president, the head of Moldova’s four-party coalition government has broken with election rhetoric by giving priority to national unity and securing foreign assistance in economic recovery
12 October 2009 - Full text...
Thirty Days - 01-30 September, 2009
Chronology and Internet guide to Russia/Eurasia-related events in the international press during September 2009
6 October 2009 - Full text...
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