Dmitri Rogozinby Giorgi KvelashviliFor the full text of this article see the Jamestown Eurasian Daily Monitor.On October 30th, Russia’s Permanent Representative to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, gave an interview to Ekho Moskvy Radio, in which he severely criticized America’s Georgia policy. Quoted by most of Russia’s... MORE

Explosives manual found in Crimea, courtesy of Ukrainian SBUby Roman KupchinskyOn October 3, units of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Internal Ministry troops apprehended 3 men suspected of membership in an unnamed Islamic militant group in a mountainous region in the Crimea. The... MORE

by Yuri ZarakhovichOn October 29, a group of young people filed a formal protest with a Minsk district prosecutor against the brutal breaking up by the riot police of a peaceful protest in the Belarus capital a week earlier. Opposition activists are well aware of... MORE

by Tammy LynchThe IMF ended its fact-finding mission to Ukraine on 26 October. The organization’s representatives left Ukraine without disclosing whether they would recommend the approval or delay of the next tranche of Ukraine’s stabilization loan. Shortly after, Tim Ash, an emerging market analyst at... MORE

by Roman KupchinskyOn October 26 the Russian daily Kommersant reported that Inter ROA UES, Russia’s primary producer of electricity, whose Board of Directors is headed by deputy prime minister Igor Sechin, decided to replace Gazprom as the gas supplier for its most important energy generating... MORE

by Giorgi KvelashviliIrakli Alasania, a moderate politician commonly called by his first name within the Georgian political establishment a-la Mikheil Saakashvili who became known as Misha – a peculiar tradition of Georgia’s adolescent political culture – faithfully served his country and president in various capacities... MORE

by Roman KupchinskyRussiaIs Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin willing to give up Gazprom’s monopoly on gas exports in return for granting Gazprom higher domestic gas prices? The gas monopoly has been lobbying to increase the domestic gas price for years – presently set at $58... MORE

by Yuri ZarakhovichThe decade of Putin’s rule was based on projecting hydrocarbon power and demonstrating military power. If the former is quite realistic, the latter is mostly illusory in regard to the West where Russia's Armed Forces are often regarded as a mob. Still, it... MORE

by Tammy Lynch Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko has a big decision to make. What will he do about legislation that raises the minimum wage beginning in January 2010? The legislation was approved by parliament on 20 October and now sits on the president’s desk waiting... MORE

by Roman KupchinskyAs the prolonged debate in the West continues over whether Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is his own man or Vladimir Putin’s loyal comrade in arms - temporarily filling-in for the former president- new developments in Russia are pouring oil on the potentially fiery... MORE