Today Russia celebrates 62nd anniversary of their victory in the Great Patriotic War. Anyone who has spent some time in Moscow around this holiday knows that it is a very big deal, irregardless of the recent diplomatic imbroglios surrounding Sovie...
An interesting Reuters report today on pipeline politics with some good info on the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline, and highlighting Russia’s ongoing co-optation strategy to keep Central Asia’s vast gas supplies beyond the reach of Europe...
Maria Yulikova of the Committee to Protect Journalists has a new article about Russia running on the Index on Censorship website. Yulikova writes of the latest Freedom House report which ranked Russia 164 out of 195 countries in terms of press fre...
Following the tragic death of Russian photojournalist Dmitry Chebotayev in Iraq, the Russian government has suprisingly and swiftly lept to action to defend the safety of journalists. According a statement cited RFE, the Foreign Ministry is callin...
The Land Where You Sit: Guilty without Guilt They falsely charge a man with murder and then don’t even apologize By Grigory Pasko, journalist One of the principal features of a state is that it has its own army and police. We all know what conditi...
There are reports that Bulgaria’s Minister of Energy Rumen Ovcharov, the man who masterminded numerous agreements for the country with Gazprom, has been suspended by PM Sergei Stanishev for his alleged involvement in a corruption scandal. Bu...
The rent-a-chancellor road show continues this week in Finland, as Gerhard Schroeder arrives in Helsinki to defend his characterization of Vladimir Putin as “a model democrat,” and urge Europe to back the North European Gas Pipeline &#...
Fred Hiatt at the Washington Post has a column today about the Russia-Estonia diplo-circus, in which he hits on Russia’s efforts to gain respect in the international community as causing some turbulence in identity politics. It is a reasonab...
Andy Young at Siberian Light has a post cataloging the politically motivated disruptions of Russia’s oil supply, prompted by the news coming out of Estonia. As I mentioned in a post from my last trip to Estonia and my meeting with President ...
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