Articles by Ariel Cohen

Russian–North Korean Naval Maneuvers Endanger Peace in Pacific

Ariel Cohen | September 19, 2011

Yesterday, the State Department released an official reaction to media reports on upcoming joint naval exercises between Russia and North Korea. The U.S. declared that… Read More

Prokhorov’s Ouster a Blow to Obama’s Russia Policy

Ariel Cohen | September 19, 2011

Last week, Russian political scandal season reached a boiling point. On September 16, Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia’s third richest man (with an estimated personal net worth… Read More

Total’s Caspian Gas Discovery

Ariel Cohen | September 12, 2011

Total, Europe’s third largest oil company, announced last Friday that they have made a major gas discovery in the Caspian Sea. The discovery, made in… Read More

Energy

Exxon Storming the Arctic

Ariel Cohen | September 07, 2011

Last week, oil giant ExxonMobil announced an agreement with Russia’s state oil company, Rosneft, to explore for oil in the Arctic continental shelf in the… Read More

Security

Iran–Russia S-300 Affair Takes a New Spin

Ariel Cohen | August 30, 2011

Iran escalated its dispute with Russia recently. Tehran filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federation at the International Court of Arbitration as Russia refused to… Read More

Russia’s Arctic Claims: Neither LOST nor Forgotten

Ariel Cohen | August 16, 2011

The Arctic is becoming the “wild west” of the 21st century, and the Russians have been quick to claim a good part of it as… Read More

Turkey’s ‘Zero Problems with Neighbors’ Policy Meets the Reality of Syria

Ariel Cohen | August 11, 2011

Turkey finds its “zero problems with neighbors” foreign policy severely compromised by upheaval in the Arab world. Relations with its closest friends, such as Syria,… Read More

Russian Threats a Heavy Blow to Obama’s “Reset” Policy

Ariel Cohen | August 11, 2011

The U.S. State Department appears to be preempting and diluting the Senate’s Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2011 (S. 1039) by placing… Read More

Security

Who Are the Real Cold War Monsters?

Ariel Cohen | August 04, 2011

The recent statements by Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian President’s Special Representative for Missile Defense Cooperation with NATO, raised hackles in Washington. Putin… Read More

Moscow’s Sanctions Tit-for-Tat Threatens to Kill the “Reset”

Ariel Cohen | August 01, 2011

This week the State Department has placed some 64 Russian officials on a visa blacklist that would prevent them from entering the United States. These… Read More

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