Last Friday in my FT column I wrote about Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni’s backing of the South Stream pipeline project with Gazprom as being detrimental to European energy security, as it decreased diversity of suppliers and competition by damaging ...
Tatiana Yankelevich, the daughter of Elena Bonner (Andrei Sakharov’s widow) and director of the Sakharov Program on Human Rights at The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Center at Harvard University, has published an op/ed today with the McClatch...
Our top correspondent here at the blog and the former political prisoner, Grigory Pasko, today is featured in a full page profile in Le Monde. After the jump, the text in French. Translation forthcoming.
Groveling ever higher (if such a thing is possible) By Grigory Pasko, journalist Mikhalkov-Tsereteli’s letter has already been discussed by everyone and anyone with the least bit of desire to do so. They have assessed it almost unequivocally...
A few video newsclips of the aftermath of the tragic oil spills in the Black Sea. Also you can see a New York Times video here, a EuroNews video here, and an ITN video here.
In the Russian language, the word “boi” signifies not only a military engagement, but also a large quantity of broken dishes. It is precisely in this latter sense that I have used it in the title of my article [Translator’s explanation: The origin...
Now this is quite a statement from the Russian president, made today during a visit with road workers in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia: “If the people vote for United Russia, it means that a clear majority of the people put their trust in me, and in ...
Here’s an interesting comment from a Reuters article on resource nationalism: With supplies tightening, experts said, competition among consumers to lock up future crude is rising, with top consumer the United States facing tough challenges ...
President Vladimir Putin has been quoted as saying that a convincing victory for United Russia in the upcoming elections would give him the “moral right” to maintain strong influence in Russia after he steps down next year. The first w...
Nobody really knew what to expect when the Turkmenbashi, Saparmurat Niyazov, died last year – such is the confusion and opacity of closed societies. With the appointment of the new president of Turkmenistan, the former dentist and health min...
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