As Russia gears up for its election season this winter, Putin’s Popular Front and Rogozin’s nationalist front are playing an old Soviet melody and even borrowing a tune from revolutionaries in Cairo. Eric Walberg recognises the refrain
Russia and ex-Soviet Union (English)
Russian politics: Nostalgia or a new political direction?
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Russia-US: Terrorism's vicious circle
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
There are no hostages in the game of geopolitics. Russia’s reaction to the Bin Laden assassination reveals its own dilemma about how best to accommodate the West, says Eric Walberg
Russia, Egypt, Libya: A kind-of-silver lining
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Russia has always
looked on at events in the Middle East from afar, shut out of the action, and
remains an onlooker today, absorbed by its own problems. Eric Walberg
looks at the implications for Russia of the revolutions and no-so-revolutions
sweeping the Middle East
Russian politics is in turmoil as a result of the uprisings in the Arab world, in particular the Egyptian revolution. Those fed up with an increasingly autocratic political system hope that Russian citizens will be energised, while those who came out on top following the collapse of the Soviet Union are quick to dismiss any implications for the Russian political scene.
Russia and NATO: ‘Not a piece of furniture’
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Medvedev’s presence in Lisbon was more a show of Russia’s importance than of subservience to the Euro-Atlantic alliance.
Russia and Turkey: Cleaning up the mess in the Middle East
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
The neocon plan to transform the Middle East and Central Asia into a pliant client of the US empire and its only-democracy-in-the-Middle-East is now facing a very different playing field. Not only are the wars against the Palestinians, Afghans and Iraqis floundering, but they have set in motion unforeseen moves by all the regional players.
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