Nina Khrushcheva of the New School has an op/ed running today in Haaretz and the Miami Herald which links together the murders of Andrei Kozlov, Enver Ziganshin, and Anna Politkovskaya, and argues that Russia’s “dictatorship of lawR...
From the postscript to “Putin’s Russia”, by Anna Politkovskaya, murdered Saturday in Moscow: Yes, stability has come to Russia. It is a monstrous stability under which nobody seeks justice in lawcourts which flaunt their subservience and partisans...
A fascinating situation is developing in Germany regarding EU-Russia relations. According to the International Herald Tribune, Germany’s Social Democrats in control of the Foreign Ministry have drafted an internal paper outlining a new energ...
Today the media is reporting on the brutal slaying of esteemed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family. From the Associated Press, published in the Guardian: Investigative Russian Journalist Killed Satur...
Interesting article in the Times today about Sakhalin. It’s great to see Goldman Sachs coming around to the view that my colleagues and I have been expressing for the past two years. “The official rhetoric is getting steadily more shrill and...
Everywhere you look these days, the Russian state is showing off its false arrogance. From bullying foreign investors in Sakhalin, to interference in the energy trade, to the ever increasing hostilities toward Georgia and other former satellites, ...
Today the New York Times is running a long feature Cheniere Energy, an admirable Houston-based LNG company that has just cleared some major regulatory hurdles and is rushing to build several regasification terminals on the Gulf – thereby hol...
From the Washington Post: Yesterday, pressed by the Bush administration, Georgia allowed the Russian officers to return home. But Russia continued its bellicose acts, while improbably claiming that it — and not the poor nation of 5 million i...
The Accidental Russophile has posted an entry analyzing the role of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in the escalating conflict between Russia and Georgia. He writes: The question you should be asking is – why would the west even care about ...
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