Month: August 2007

August 22, 2007

Masha Lipman: Remembering Stalin

Masha Lipman has an op/ed running in the Washington Post today which raises many poignant questions about the new Russian nationalism and historical reconciliation: Vladimir Putin’s government is averse to exposing or dwelling on the crimes ...
August 22, 2007

Daily Russia News Videos

We’re pleased to offer our readers a new feature here at RA – daily Russia news videos from across the World Wide Web, courtesy of Truveo. These videos will be constantly refreshed, located on the right sidebar. Let us know your though...
August 22, 2007

Andrei Dmitriev: Who Are the National-Bolsheviks?

[While I was attending the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum in Helsinki in early July, Grigory Pasko introduced me to an intelligent, articulate young man named Andrei Dmitriev, one of the leaders of the banned National-Bolshevik Party. I have been int...
August 22, 2007

Russia’s Antics Wearing Thin on Foreign Investors

For a while it seemed that there was practically no limit to the enthusiasm held by Western businesses to get into Russia no matter how alarming the political situation. However, perhaps in light of the credit crunch and the healthy return of risk...
August 21, 2007

Kasparov Warns Australia to not Sell Uranium to Russia

Opposition leader Garry Kasparov has an interview coming out tomorrow in Bulletin magazine in which he warns that John Howard of Australia could be in violation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty if he sells uranium to Russia – uranium ...
August 21, 2007

Grigory Pasko: A Small Journey in Russia, Part 2

(see part 1 of this series here) Sketches from a Small Journey in Russia Part 2: Moscow-Petushki By Grigory Pasko, journalist Pokrov – 113th kilometer “…And so in these gaps I saw city lights, many lights and the vanishing station sign ‘Pokr...
August 20, 2007

Paul Kennedy: Worried About Putin’s Russia?

(AFP) Paul Kennedy, director of International Security Studies at Yale University, has a syndicated column about Russia out today. Largely a laundry list of Russian wrongdoing (including criticism of pipeline imperialism and energy expropriation),...
August 20, 2007

Derek Brower: Back on the agenda

The Nabucco pipeline project has looked moribund for months. Is a revival in sight? By Derek Brower, journalist ANALYSTS and journalists have been writing off Nabucco for months. But now it seems there could be life in the project yet. According t...