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Lavrov warns EU against Caspian Sea agreements

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that any decision on the Caspian Sea and its related issues without considering the position of its littoral states is unacceptable. The Iranian...

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Shoigu set to move to front line Russian politics

One of Russia’s more charismatic pro Kremlin politicians, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shogu is on his way to join frontline politics.  Deputies  of the Moscow  Region Duma will discuss his...

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Global and Regional powers flex muscles in the Mediterranean

There are reports of intensive air and naval activity in the Eastern Mediterranean as global and regional powers flex their muscles amidst increasing tensions around the situation in Syria. Israel, the...

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Russia sends professional as its envoy to NATO as relationship matures

The appointment of an experienced,  professional diplomat as Russia’s new Envoy to NATO is widely seen as a sign that the relationship between the Alliance and its old foe Russia is entering a new...

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Ulyanovsk, and the image of the west as an “enemy” amongst Russians.

The Cold War ended more than twenty years ago. Yet to hear some politicians in the United States talk about Russia you would think that it is still in full swing. The problem is however on both sides....

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Stalin buses criss-cross Eurasia: Nostalgia, patriotism or provocation?

If you live in one of the post Soviet Republics it is quite possible that the bus pulling up in your town square this month will have on it a big picture of Josef Stalin. Public buses with the image of...

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Putin’s bizarre choice: Russian President’s first meetings with foreign...

The first meetings of the newly installed Russian President Vladimir Putin with foreign leaders are going to be with the Presidents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Kremlin announced that Putin will...

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Moscow’s delicate balance of Europe and Eurasia

As expected, the deteriorating situation in Syria dominated discussion at the 29th EU-Russia summit in St Petersburg, given added urgency by the massacre of over 100 civilians in Houla just days before...

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Russian attempts at soft power do not adequately conceal their intent towards...

Russia attempts at yielding soft power often comes across as clumsy. Yet as Nicholas Maltby argues, this does not need to be so. The notion of ‘soft power’ was first developed approximately two decades...

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Madonna is with the gays of St Petersburg

In a week when NGOs working in Russia were declared “foreign agents”, Nicholas Maltby looks at another piece of Russian legislation that is causing controversy, the law banning “gay propaganda”. A St....

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“We must simultaneously contain, confront and engage Russia”– LINKS Director.

“There are no simple solutions to the current stand-off with Russia. The European Union and other western countries need to find a way of containing Russian attempts to put pressure on Eastern...

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