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US presidential race: Time to play the Russian card?

US presidential race: Time to play the Russian card? ­The Republican presidential race, which has passes through Florida this week,...

Russians prefer to achieve democracy without foreign assistance

Russians prefer to achieve democracy without foreign assistance ­The presidential election campaign has de facto started in Russia. Official...

Putin offers ethnic diagnosis of Russia - but no real cure

Putin offers ethnic diagnosis of Russia - but no real cure ­ Vladimir Putin’s recently published second article outlining his electoral...

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A Bridge Too Far

Robert Bridge


Robert Bridge is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has worked in Moscow as a writer and journalist since 1996.


Former Editor of The Moscow News (Sept.2007 – Feb.2009), Bridge is now a regular political commentator on RT's website.


Although his primary focus is international politics, this column will touch upon a wide variety of topics.
13 January, 2012, 18:38

Israel needs a "Pro-American Lobby"

In the course of writing an article about various political lobbies in the United States, I stumbled upon an odd thing. Curious to see if a “pro-American lobby” existed somewhere in the world, I decided to google the term. One-millionth of a second later, my search came up empty. In fact, not only was the term “pro-American lobby” nonexistent, “pro-Israeli lobby” actually appeared in its place....

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Unpredictable World

Fyodor Lukyanov


Fyodor Lukyanov is editor-in-chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, published in Russian and English with the participation of Foreign Affairs magazine.


He has an extensive background in different Russian and international media, in which he worked from 1990 to 2002 as a commentator on international affairs.
Lukyanov now widely contributes to various media in the US, Europe and China. His monthly “Geopolitics” column appears in the Russian edition of Forbes magazine.

He is a member of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, an independent organization providing foreign policy expertise and also a member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civic Society Institutions.


27 January, 2012, 13:04

Russians prefer to achieve democracy without foreign assistance

­The presidential election campaign has de facto started in Russia. Official agitation will be launched February 4, one month prior to the vote, but the candidates are already there. Vladimir Putin has published two program articles and is attending rallies across the country. His four contenders use any opportunity for public appearance. The opposition is preparing for the next big gathering on...

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13 January, 2012, 16:36
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Dmitry Polikanov


Dr. Dmitry Polikanov began his career as a political analyst with a number of Russian think tanks and international organizations.


Being Vice President of the PIR Center (The Russian Center for Policy Studies), he frequently comments on major developments in Russian foreign policy. For almost ten years he has been a guest speaker at the NATO School in Oberammergau (Germany), where he was the first Russian lecturer. 

Since 2007, Dr. Polikanov has been working with the ruling United Russia party. He now holds the position of Deputy Head of the Central Executive Committee and is deeply involved in various party activities, including the development of its strategy and ideology. Dmitry Polikanov was also one of the authors of the Human Resource Reserve project within the party.
25 January, 2012, 13:36

Nation-building: Searching for the bricks

Nationalism has always been one of the most sensitive issues in the history of Russia. Multinational by its nature, with a controversial relationship between the capital and periphery, much of which was a product of soft colonization of new eastern and southern lands, Russian civilization is constantly facing this stumbling block of “correct vs. incorrect nationalism” in its development. There...

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17 January, 2012, 18:22
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Issues In Vision

Aleksey Pushkov


Aleksey Pushkov is a leading TV presenter, journalist and political scientist in Russia; Ph.D in history, professor teaching at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, member of the Presidium of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Since 1993, member and permanent expert of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland


From 1988 to 1991 he wrote speeches for Mikhail Gorbachev.

Authored over 400 scientific works and analytical articles in leading Russian and foreign periodicals. Pushkov is also author and presenter of the Postscriptum program on Center TV.


11 October, 2011, 19:54

­Bye bye, American lie

The biggest foreign policy event of the past few weeks has been the UN Security Council vote on the draft resolution on Syria, tabled by a US-led group of Western countries and eventually vetoed by Russia and China. The United States and its allies were hoping to push through a resolution condemning President Bashar al-Assad and his government for their crackdown on anti-government protesters,...

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4 October, 2011, 17:50
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Between the lines

Nikolay Svanidze


Nikolay Svanidze is a Russian TV journalist and political expert.


Svanidze has hosted the Russian TV programs “Mirror” and “Chronicles of History with Nikolay Svanidze” on Rossiya Channel and, since 2010, “Time’s Judgment” on Channel 5.


In November 2005, he became a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, where he is a member of the working group on international affairs. He is also a member of the president's historical truth commission.


In November 2008, Nikolay Svanidze participated in the creation of The Right Cause liberal party.

23 January, 2012, 23:24

Putin offers ethnic diagnosis of Russia - but no real cure

­ Vladimir Putin’s recently published second article outlining his electoral agenda is dedicated to the issue of inter-ethnic relations. It is very well-written and balanced, and if I understand the prime minister’s message correctly, he is essentially saying that all citizens of Russia should unite on the basis of common cultural values – and the term “Russian” should refer primarily...

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World and We

Sergey Strokan


Sergey Strokan is a journalist, essayist and a poet. He is also a political commentator with Russia's “Kommersant” Publishing House.


Mr. Strokan hosts “Red Line”, a weekly analytical program broadcast by The Voice of Russia in New York City.

He is the author of three poetry collections, a winner of the Maximilian Voloshin International Literary Award (2010) and a member of Union of Russian Writers.

1 February, 2012, 16:17

US presidential race: Time to play the Russian card?

­The Republican presidential race, which has passes through Florida this week, has shone a surprising spotlight on a foreign policy issue not anticipated in the 2012 US presidential race: America’s relations with Russia. Even more surprising is the fact that the Republican candidate who was the first to add the words “Russia”, “reset” and “Putin” to his election vocabulary was not hawkish Newt...

26 January, 2012, 14:22
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