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All Eyes on Me: The Emergence of a Russian Surveillance State
Before analyzing the activities and assessing the ethics of any intelligence organization, it is first necessary to remember that intelligence organizations are secretive by...
The Russia-OPEC-America Nexus: Reimagining the Great Oil Game
The geopolitical implication to the sudden fall in oil prices has had broad-reaching ramifications for a number of very powerful countries. Two of those...
Soft power as a threat to a hard power
2012 was fruitful for Russian legislators and painful for the NGOs. That year marked the series of laws threatening the fragile civil society in...
Kazakhstan & WTO: End of an Odyssey or New Leap Forward?
Kazakhstan applied to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in January of 1996. Twenty long years later (July 27, 2015), President Nazarbayev signed the...
Away From Dollar: Russia, China creating own gold market
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One of the biggest mysteries in the oil market: Iran’s secret stash of oil
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The Pluto of International Organizations: The Evolution of the SCO
This piece investigates the unique peculiarities of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Instead of being a Eurasian counterpart to the EU, an additional IO...
Brothers-in-Unethical-Arms: The American and Russian Intelligence Services
Two of the largest foreign intelligence agencies in the world, the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Russian Federation’s Foreign Intelligence Service...
The Industrial Spy Game: FSB as Russian Economic Developer
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation (RF) has sought to reclaim its former glory and regain recognition as a great...
Europe in crisis: everyone from Putin to ordinary savers are stockpiling gold
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