Russia: Would-Be Great Power?
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – Anyone strolling around a half-decent bookshop these days will find that most of the books on current affairs seem to deal with Islam […]
Read MoreQuo Vadis – Where is the World Going?
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – The weakness of western powers and the international community was exposed once again last week after Iran arrested British sailors and marines it […]
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 III
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) The Western and Russian media – not quite so different Western critiques of press freedom in Russia look somewhat ironic against the background of […]
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 MoreRussia and the West – polar opposites or two sides of the same coin? Part I
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) Introduction After returning to Frankfurt after my first extended stay in Moscow in 1988, my German Russian teacher agreed with my observation that the […]
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 MoreRussia, the West and Energy: A Question of Double Standards?
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – It is hardly surprising that the main headline in the Western media from President Putin’s annual press conference with Russian and international journalists […]
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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