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Greece refuses to pay up - then flirts with Putin: PM begs Russia for support after attacking 'absurd' austerity conditions on his ...

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I said something about this almost a year ago and - "gosh" - the video of the above telcon I embedded has has the associated Yo...

Cartoon: Taylor Jones Raedwald's piece on possible sanctions against Russia includes the potential harm to Eurozone's industry...

If we are to understand them, we have to look behind the horrible events in Ukraine - for which the West may turn out to be be partly respon...

"London - wear the fox hat?" (from the Daily Telegraph, 22 March 2014 ) "Everyone can see that the West has no idea what ...

(From Google Maps) "The Balkans, and southeastern Europe more generally, present the major hurdle toward the creation of a Europe “...

Source: http://eurodialogue.org/Druzhba-Pipeline-Map "Belarus will make all efforts towards returning Ukrainian-Russian relations ...

"... while the focus has most recently been on Crimea, eastern Ukraine is expected to be the next hotspot, with the action centring on ...

Were the protests really started by democrats fed up of a corrupt government? We don't seem to manage that here, so why there? These thi...

from Google Maps  "What Did Sochi Get for $51 Billion? Highways, Railroads and a Lot of White Elephants," scoffed Alec Lu...

( Bonus footage for grown-ups! ) Former Tatarstan resident James Higham gives his experience of motoring among the Ivans: Jesse's runni...

I've said it before: you get the clearest explanations from someone who is in a hurry to move on to something else. Here is Dmitry Orlov...

See the comment in Brad Setser's blog - Brazil and Argentina are already finding other ways to pay each other, Russia may deal in euros....

Shortly after the Ossetian excursion, Putin tranquillizes a tiger. Could he be sending a message over to the south-east?

Mines in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe on Saturday welcomed the failure of a Western-backed U.N. Security Council resolution to impose sanctions over i...

The TV was on, and I forget what programme we were watching. Sometimes they were Dutch - we were near the border - but more often German. I ...