BENEATH the wooden balconies of Tbilisi’s charming Old Town, the faux-medieval signs offering wine tasting are as likely to be in Russian as in Georgian or English. Even some of the graffiti is in Cyrillic script.
https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21734400-and-eu-happy-georgia-opts-less-confrontation-russia
Más de la mitad del electorado considera la adhesión de la península el principal activo del jefe de Estado durante su mandato
https://elpais.com/internacional/2018/01/10/actualidad/1515609062_361357.html
The impact of oil, corruption, and state overreach on Russia's economy are well documented. Less well understood is how economic growth interacts with social inequality in Russia. Please join us for a discussion with Leonid Grigoryev, Professor in the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School for Economics in Moscow, on how social and regional inequality are constraining Russia's economic recovery. Yuval Weber, the inaugural DMGS-Kennan Institute Fellow at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School, will serve as discussant. Olga Oliker will moderate.
https://www.csis.org/events/social-inequality-and-russian-economy
A major report by Senator Ben Cardin suggests a broad response to Russian interference in the West. Only some of his recommendations make sense.
Why would an Orthodox bishop with close ties to Putin hint at an old anti-Semitic canard to explain the murder of the last czar’s family?
Andranik Migranyan discussed the topic today at the Center for the National Interest.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/heres-whats-store-us-russia-relations-24040
The Trump administration must speak out against the Assad regime’s new attacks on its people and Moscow’s active support for them.
Die geplante Erweiterung der Ostsee-Pipeline Nord Stream 2 ist hoch umstritten. Umweltverbände appellieren nun an Union und SPD, sich von dem Projekt zu distanzieren - und bereiten eine Klage vor.
http://coalitionfordefense.com/lessons-learned-from-zapad-2017-part-3/