My Russian friends used to annoy me when they insisted I could not understand Russia if I knew only Moscow and St. Petersburg.  So I began to visit other Russian cities and surrounding countryside--Perm, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Izhevsk, Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Ufa, Krasnodar, Vladimir-Suzdal, Tuapse.  My conclusion?  My friends were…

Much has been written about Europe’s falling dependency on natural gas and how detrimental this seemed to be for Russia, being the biggest supplier of natural gas to the old continent. Falling demand, falling prices and eventually falling revenues for Russia’s state budget – Russophobes were quick to celebrate the demise of…

 Someone please warn Donald Trump.  Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  is not qualified to be a heartbeat from the presidency.  She has the politically correct gender and race, but she lacks the judgment.  He could lose the general election because of her vociferous support of the 2003 Iraq War. But even more, she…

Strategic goals and objectives
 
Last January, Romania initiated a proposal to create a permanent NATO naval task force in the Black Sea and Bucharest intends to discuss its project during the summit of the Alliance in Warsaw in July. It is noticeably the first concrete Romanian initiative in terms of maritime security in the Black Sea, a naval…

                             Unafraid, Bi-partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom
 
On July 4th, 2015 we penned an “Open Letter to Donald Trump,” recognizing before almost anybody else that this…

As Brazil’s political and economic crisis deepens a senior intelligence official has revealed that the nation is being targeted by Islamic State (IS).
 
From a security perspective the games take on a nationwide threat profile because the football tournament that is part of the Rio games will be played in major cities throughout Brazil…

Mr. William Courtney is an adjunct senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and executive director of the RAND Business Leaders Forum, as well as president of the U.S.-Kazakhstan Business Association. He co-chaired the U.S. delegation to the review conference that prepared for the 1999 Summit in Istanbul of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in…

The Russian Oligarchs are more comparable to the Robber Barons in late 19th Century America. Despite the similarities, however, there are important differences. The most important similarity is that both resulted from institutional and legal vacuums of which energetic, enterprising, unscrupulous men took advantage. 
In late 19th Century America…

                               "Unfraid, Bi-partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom"
 
 In her April 13, 2016  article in Politico, Anne Applebaum’s title asks, “How Much Trouble is Russia Causing in Europe?”  She concludes…

                               "Unafraid, Bi-Partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom"
 
Resolving the Ukraine Crisis:  From Finlandization to Henry Kissinger's trade bridge supported by Valenta's Swiss-type, armed neutrality,
 
  You can…

                                     "Unafraid, Bi-partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom"

     SECOND INTERVIEW OF DR . JIRI VALENTA BY PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MOTYL

MOTYL: Dr. Valenta, you’ve had extensive…

Sudden, shocking, disturbing, and largely self-propelled trends in America and Europe are doing more damage to Western democracy today than Soviet armies or nuclear missiles ever did during the Cold War

 

By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981), originally published March 17th, 2016…