Tag Archive for: "Russia"
A relaxed Russia

Russia’s likely to be pleased with the outcomes of the NATO meeting in Warsaw and will certainly not regard their strategic position as weakened. Russia will welcome signs of discord and posturing within both NATO …

From the bookshelf: The Maisky Diaries

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s 1932-1943, edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky. Fitzroy MacLean’s superb autobiography, Eastern Approaches, is most famously recalled for his exploits in the Balkans, during the Second …

NATO comes home

As befits most public documents issued at international gatherings, the communique released at the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s summit in Warsaw was both long and tedious, covering every conceivable global security threat …