This weekend a small comment I had prepared some time ago appeared alongside many other Russia commentators as part of an online roundtable organized by the Center for International Relations entitled “Russia’s Relations with the West:...
From Christopher Caldwell in the Financial Times: Putin’s Colonial Exploitation “What they are offering us is obviously a vestige of colonial thinking,” was Russian president Vladimir Putin’s bizarre assessment this week of continuing British call...
As Mikhail Kasyanov tells the Economist, the liberal opposition is having trouble gaining a foothold in Russia because so many have tragically been led to believe that economic growth and democratic freedoms are mutually exclusive qualities: Few R...
From Reuters: President Vladimir Putin’s aides plan to beef up a Kremlin advisory body known as the Security Council, turning it in effect into a parallel cabinet before his departure next year, a Moscow newspaper said on Thursday. … &...
In a great new policy paper from Katinka Barysch at the Centre for European Reform, it is argued that 1) “The EU can no longer claim to be building a strategic partnership with Russia that is based on common values,” 2) “The EU’s...
(WSJ) From Garry Kasparov in today’s Wall Street Journal: But if you really wish to understand the Putin regime in depth, I can recommend some reading. No Karl Marx or Adam Smith. Nothing by Montesquieu or Machiavelli, although the author yo...
Some quotes from President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin: “It’s their brains, not our constitution, which need to be changed. What they are offering to us is a clear remnant of colonial thinking.” (July 24, 2007 speech...
There are many perks to being a Duma member – easy kickbacks, low expectations, and almost no obligations apart from rubber stamping anything the Kremlin puts on your desk. However, the most appealing benefit by far is that much coveted immu...
Today in Moscow a multitudinous rally was held by relatives of the victims of Josef Stalin’s purges. According to Sergei Volkov, of the Russian Association of Victims of Political Repression, not a single top official attended the proceeding...
Today columnist Matthew Lynn of Reuters convincingly makes the case that the EU’s long-standing policy of promoting its shared values with Russia is failing to be effective whatsoever, and that new approaches and perspectives on engagement s...
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