Toyota will bounce back
Toyota’s recall of nearly 2 million cars doesn’t look good, but any company that records its first loss some 70 years after its foundation must be world class. In late […]
Read MoreПарадоксы модернизации
Парадоксы русской модернизации Modernity – западно-европейское изобретение, а не китайское. Попытаемся разобраться в том, что такое modernity, выяснив попутно некоторые западные unspoken assumptions – «непроговариваемые предположения». Ведь именно они объясняют, […]
Read MoreRussia’s economic bandwagon rolls on despite major problems
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – Several events this week cast interesting light on Russia’s economy, and the different perceptions of the country here and abroad. After Heiligendamm and […]
Read MoreEnergizing Central Asia: Caspian Partnerships Will Pay Off
The Caspian Basin’s large oil and gas reserves have not only been long coveted by the United States, Europe, China and India, but are also seen as the means by […]
Read MoreThe Other Side of Security. Energy in the East Rarely Receives Enough Attention
Although the December-January pricing spat between Russia and Ukraine focused attention on Europe’s dependence on outside sources of gas, the political/energy security nexus in East Asia has been acute for […]
Read MorePost-imperial attitudes: Britain after the war and Russia today
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – In November 1992, the president of the Kyrgyz Republic, Askar Akayev, a research physicist before going into politics, told me in an interview […]
Read MoreRussia and the West – polar opposites or two sides of the same coin? Part II
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) Russia and Chechnya – and Stalin Chechnya is of course the black spot on Russia’s recent record. But it also shows the immense difficulty […]
Read MoreCentral Asia – the distorted reality
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) The inauguration of Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov on February 13 as the new president of Turkmenistan was notable for his speech announcing greater access to the […]
Read MoreNo Fear of Russia Exploiting the Developing World
Russia and China are becoming increasingly integrated in the global economy and both have stepped up their activity sharply in Africa, Latin America and Asia in recent years, trends that […]
Read MoreNew markets in the Far East – China’s growing industrial sector looks to Russia for its energy needs
The steadily improving relations between Russia and China reached a new high earlier this year when the two countries signed 29 bilateral agreements on energy, telecommunications, information technology, banking and […]
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