Oh my. Well, this takes care of quite a lot of our holiday shopping… From GIZMODO: Those of you who fear they’ve got on the wrong side of Vladimir Putin just might find the Polonium Pen a must-have. Basically a hand-made ion chamber wi...
From the cheeky editors of the FT: The Russian football team has successfully employed a foreign coach because there was no suitable domestic candidate. Why should the Russian state not behave in the same way? The Russians seem to be keen on the s...
Thanks to some colleagues of mine in Russia, I’m pleased to be the first to offer this exclusive translation of a very important Kommersant interview with Oleg Shvartsman of FPG Finansgrupp. The information shared by Mr. Shvartsman is entire...
There’s a new audio slideshow by Catherine Belton featuring some terrific photographs up on the FT site – it’s worth checking out. She talks with one middle-class Russian man whose living has improved greatly during the Putin pre...
Little strokes fell great oaks – a case study By Grigory Pasko, journalist For several years now, I’ve had occasion to interact on a regular basis with one mid-level manager at a large Moscow company. Well, actually, I don’t really know what level...
There’s more great material on Russia in the latest issue of the New Statesman that I can possibly fit in here. In a brief comment piece, Lilia Shevtsova argues that the Putinist authoritarian drift has provoked a number of fundamental parad...
Below is the next installment of journalist Grigory Pasko’s series of online video interviews with various leaders of the Russian opposition featured on our YouTube channel. Here Grigory interviews Anastasiya Udaltsova, the spokesperson for ...
Campaign finance is almost always an ugly issue even in the most transparent democratic systems in the world, but in the new one-party state of Russia, these fund raising efforts can quickly cross the line to resemble extortion threats. Last week ...
Sure, you can have your face plastered across the city on billboards, complete domination of the airwaves, and a comprehensive pop culture presence that Coca-Cola and the iPod would be jealous of, but you haven’t truly achieved a real cult o...
The Russia analysts over at Stratfor frequently use hyperbole, are generous with broad, sweeping statements whose logic you could drive a truck through, and are obsessed with the cloak-and-dagger power machinations of certain individuals within th...
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