In Eastern Ukraine, we are seeing an ingenious Russian plot unfold — for the second time. Russian servicemen, wearing no insignia, infiltrate into the area and, capitalising on marginal grassroots separatism, spark unrest. They establish control in a professional manner, quickly, and largely without blood. 
 
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Come May, Vladimir Putin is to pay a visit to China, where a number of consequential agreements will be signed. To be sure, this visit will have a profound impact on Russia's development in the years to come. If Putin decides to reorient its policy towards the East, there is little hope that Russian economy will modernize. Whereas the European…

The Arctic Council diplomats gathered in Yellowknife, Canada, from the 25th to the 27th of March to discuss high-level political issues concerning the Arctic. The work of the Arctic Council continues, but the echo of the events that occurred in Crimea cannot be ignored. How is Arctic cooperation responding to this unprecedented crisis in…

The Post-Soviet nations are clearly divided into those that supply immigrants and those that receive them. The first category includes Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan while the second category is small and consists only of two nations – Russia and Kazakhstan. In Russia one worker leaving the country is replaced with 12…

Though Syria has somewhat fallen off the media radar in the West because of a Malaysian plane crashing into the Indian Ocean and Crimean referendum consequences booming across Europe, an on-going conflict and crisis continues in a critically important region of the world. The problems in Syria remain poorly understood in the West across the board, but…

Earlier this week several intelligence websites, among which Debkafile confirmed that Washington had Okayed the delivery of anti-tank missiles to Syria in a last attempt to militarily overpower President Bashar Al Assad’s armed forces, topple his regime and engineer the inception of a puppet government which will pledge allegiance to its western…

Ecological dilemmas are moving beyond the realm of local environmental, health and human population studies to a more dangerous transnational aspect of globalization – intelligence operations. It is in opening up an interaction between environmental studies’ liberal domain and intelligence studies’ realist domain, projecting onto…

Just after the results of the Crimean Referendum were made public, the White House ordered a new round of sanctions against a number of russian citizens and one bank believed to have played a central role in breaking the territorial integrity of Ukrain. The European Union issued similar measures, asset-freezings and VISA bans, shortly after against 21…

American drone utilization is predicated upon the exclusive and exceptional ability of the United States to dictate terms to all other countries and to assume that such technical dictatorship will continue on in perpetuity, thereby eliminating the need to be concerned about the lack of uniformity, transparency, and logical consistency in international…

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein




On begining of march Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee took part  in the South Stream Transport Supervisory Board meeting in Zurich (Switzerland). The Board…

Carnegie Moscow Center. – Moscow, 2013. 159 p   The book – consisting of 18 articles – describes Russian foreign policy and the domestic response to Russia’s international engagement in recent years. This book comes at a timely moment as Russian political and public discourses revolve around the nexus of democracy and…

These are the days of garment-rending. At least, this is likely the lament privately voiced by many in the corridors of American and European power. Obama’s recent trip to Europe to shore up greater resolve and commitment for strengthening sanctions and isolating (or is it shaming?) Russia after the Crimea annexation (or is it secession?) was…