Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review
Michael Bohm, Moscow Times
Patrick Seale, Gulf News
Dmitri Trenin, New York Times
Daniel Drezner, The New Republic

After a period of healthier ties following the much-heralded reset, U.S.-Russia relations appear to be deteriorating. Whether it was the war of words between U.S. Secretary of Stat...(full article)

Here we go again - another round of anti-Americanism from the Kremlin and state-controlled media. We have heard claims that the United States is trying to orchestrate an Orange R...(full article)

With their vetoes, Russia and China are saying they too have interests in the Middle East, which they are bent on protecting....(full article)

To understand Moscow's attitude to Syria, and the sources of its disagreement with the West and a number of Arab states, one has to take a broader view....(full article)

Even if American policy can only act on the margins of the ongoing crisis in Syria, it is imperative that Washington get involved....(full article)
The Syrian government is delighted with the Russian veto of the draft UN Security Council resolution seeking an end to the violence in Syria. The draft resolution also called on Pr...
What strange tea are the Russians brewing in their diplomatic samovar? Foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, visited Damascus on Tuesday with the foreign intelligence chief, Mikhail Fra...
To observe the democratic awakenings happening in places like Egypt, Syria and Russia is to travel with a glow in your heart and a pit in your stomach....
As far as the 21st century goes, compared to the alternatives, it is more likely that we are in a pre-American than a post-American age....
'Swift implementation of democratic reforms' is definitely an idea whose time has come - in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as Damascus and Aleppo....
US competition with Iran has become the equivalent of a game of three-dimensional chess, but a game where each side can modify at least some of the rules with each move. It is also...
A permanent global clubhouse for democracies based on shared principles would make it easier to aid growing movements....
The intervention in Libya -- often touted by advocates as a sterling example of how to intervene responsibly in a civil conflict to prevent atrocity -- has largely fallen off the...
It is getting to be a European winter tradition. In 2006, 2009, and now again in 2012, temperatures plunge, and Russia interrupts its gas supplies. But while this spectacle is sadl...
Moscow must now set out how to broker a credible alternative to the Arab League plan that it has done so much to destroy....
In Moscow at the moment, the most far-fetched idea of all is the notion that Vladimir Putin will still be running Russia in 2024....
In Moscow this Saturday thousands of people marched against fraudulent elections and the Putin regime. This was the third such mass protest since the December 4 parliamentary elect...
“Michael, I swear we are getting slaughtered.” I had asked Alaa al-Sheikh, the spokesman for the Khaled Bin Waleed brigade of Syrian rebels, to give me an overview of what’s...
In Moscow on Saturday tens of thousands of people came out, despite freezing temperatures, to demonstrate in favour of free, fair, but above all honest, elections. They were protes...
Russia has drawn a line in the sand on Syria with implications for Western action against Iran....
Syria is often called Russia’s last remaining ally in the Middle East, and Moscow’s continuing refusal to support the United States, the European Union, and the Arab Le...
There were a few surprising things about Saturday's opposition protest in Moscow. For one thing, the cold -- a bitter -10 degrees Fahrenheit -- didn't seem to keep anyone at home. ...
A UN veto says it all - Russia and China must not shield Assad any longer....
February 5 marks the one-year anniversary of the New Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty's (New START) entry into force. Signed by the United States and Russia in April 2010, New...
If the European intellectual elite had not been so compromised by its own broad acceptance of collectivist beliefs, maybe we would have had a genuine, far-reaching re-apprais...
The Western powers enjoy the moral advantage of having campaigned publicly for a UN Security Council resolution that, in theory, would have encouraged a peaceful outcome in Syria...
Everyone thought billionaire playboy Mikhail Prokhorov was just a patsy for Vladimir Putin to run against and crush. But what if he wins?...
Russia today is sort of a democracy, but not really. It’s sort of a free market, but not really. It's sort of got the rule of law to protect businesses, but not really. It'...
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili finally got what he couldn’t get for several years: an official visit to the White House. President Obama has avoided his Georgian colleagu...
Like last year's Arab Spring, this winter's mass protests in Russia exhibit several hallmarks of people-powered democratic revolts. But to see the rallies over rigged leg...
Yesterday, diplomats at the UN Security Council were engaged in a concerted attempt to pass a resolution calling for President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power, which i...
This occasional report by Taras Kuzio examines Russian-Ukraine relations and the future of the Crimea as well as the port of Sevastopol, a key strategic naval base for the Russian ...
His fall would deprive Iran of an intra-Arab staging area and sever its corridor to the Mediterranean. Syria would return to the Sunni fold. Hezbollah, Tehran's agent in Lebanon,...
Should the Al Assad regime fall, Turkey is set to benefit the most. For Moscow, this will change the balance of power from central Asia to Middle East....
In Russia, disapproval of Vladimir Putin is quickly turning into mass-contempt....
The argument that Russia hopes to protect its stake in a future Syria is unconvincing. By holding on to Bashar Assad so stubbornly, despite the killing, the Russians are ensuring...
Even before Morocco officially proposed a UN Security Council resolution condemning the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it was clear that Russia, which has ve...
You may think that the situations in Egypt and Russia have nothing in common. Think again. Yes, these two countries have starkly different histories. But having visited both in rec...
The resignation of Silvio may be compared to the collapse of the Berlin Wall: for Russia, that historical event marked the beginning of a decade of violence, poverty and geopolitic...
Russia inherited its Middle East presence from the Soviet Union. Is it about to lose its last ally in a newly democratised Arab world?...
Russian and Chinese support for the Syrian regime will ensure two powerful Security Council vetoes to any resolution calling for armed intervention and toughened economic sanctio...
Before Mikhail Prokhorov leaves his mansion on the outskirts of Moscow to embark on his campaign, he has to walk past a black panther. The panther, made of heavy plastic, stands i...
A wave of anti-government protests in Russia in late 2011 has rocked its political establishment. United in anger at President Dmitry Medvedev's decision to cede his post to...
On March 4, the people of Russia will be going to the polls to elect a president of the country. Extensive discussions are currently underway across society....
The government of Vladimir Putin is insisting that it will not support the removal of a regime that has been its primary ally in the Middle East. Yet if sustained, Moscow's intra...
Russia’s “Moscow Winter” is eating away at Vladimir Putin’s KGB state, but it will survive. Putin will be reelected easily on March 4 for a six year term, but he will h...
Russian foot-dragging is now a key barrier between the Syrian demonstrators and their prospective liberation from Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Even the timid Arab League has calle...
Over the weekend we witnessed a dangerous intensifying of events in Syria: the freezing of the Arab League observer mission with team leaders citing safety reasons and a high numbe...
Mr. Putin, who is up for a six-year-term as president in an election March 4, is behaving as if nothing in Russia has changed. Apart from publishing a bland article in a state ne...
Vladimir Putin's claim to political legitimacy is closed tied to his record as the strongman who brought economic order and a modicum of prosperity out of the chaos of post-Soviet,...
AP - Russia's Foreign Ministry is asking the government to suspend adoptions of Russian children by ...
AP - The faces of the Russian protesters who braved brutal cold to express their discontent were as ...
AP - European election observers say that presidential hopefuls running against Prime Minister Vladi...
AP - Russia's president has fired the police chief of St. Petersburg, where a 15-year-old boy died a...
AP - A military court on Friday convicted a Russian officer of providing the CIA with secret informa...
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