Bill Browder: Putin, Magnitsky Legislation & The Baltic Sea Region
byNamed by Vladimir Putin as an enemy of Russia, American-born businessman, CEO of “Hermitage Capital Management”, Bill Browder has earned worldwide recognition as the…
Sanctions
Kasparov: Sanctions Help Deter Putin’s Aggression
byThe following written testimony was given by Garry Kasparov about the situation in Putin’s Russia and Canada’s response to Kremlin aggression in the Canadian…
A Pedigree of Repression: Putin’s New Chief-of-Staff
byVladimir Putin has tapped deep into a line of dependable Soviet era nomenklatura, reaching back to the time of Stalin, to appoint his latest…
The Impact of Western Sanctions on The Russian Oil Sector
byWestern governments imposed sanctions on Russia for violating the sovereignty of Ukraine in the spring of 2014. Some of the restrictions were directed against…
Former Russian FSB Chief Puts Finland in Russian Crosshairs For Upholding EU Sanctions
byThe only Russian delegate to attend the 40th anniversary OSCE meeting in Helsinki, Nikolai Kovalev has loudly criticized Finland’s decision to uphold an EU…
For Moscow, Russia’s ‘Most Dangerous Opponent’ in Europe is Poland and ‘Most Harmful’ is Estonia, Illarionov Says
byMoscow’s “black list” of European political figures who now will be denied entrance to the Russian Federation suggests that in the view of the…
A New Cold War?
byDavid Kramer, a senior director at the McCain Institute for International Leadership and the former president of Freedom House, responds to some popular assertions…
A Timeline of Renewed Finlandization
byTracking Finnish foreign policy as it ricochets wildly between East and West has become a challenge for even the most seasoned observers of Finnish…