1. No kremlinology required over interpreting their words, as Foreign Secretary David Miliband put it to us last week.

2. Increasingly it seems that Kremlinology is passing for democracy in Russia.

3. For U.S. and European policymakers who had consigned Kremlinology to the history shelf of research libraries, the past two years have brought cause for regret.

4. With the race to power beginning to heat up, analysts may have to sharpen their skills in an old Soviet era art: Kremlinology.

5. So it's hardly surprising that reading the Chinese approach has become the latterday equivalent of cold war Kremlinology.