Yesterday I published a post on Russia’s moratorium of the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty. Today I received many emails about it, and below I share one comment from a close, unnamed Russian colleague: The suspension is not about ratifi...
This is a pretty good one from the Economist, which finally gets around to writing about the Kremlin-approved history manual for public schools. See some original translations here and here. “The attitude towards the past is the central element of...
Do you believe in miracles? I hope so, because a Dutch site and some other political blogs are really beating us out by a large margin over at the 2007 Weblog Awards. Please stop by and vote again, as we would be grateful for your support and woul...
The Lede blog over at the New York Times reports on the poisoning of German tennis star Tommy Haas, which naturally gets blamed on the Russians with little to no evidence. Seems like a typical media knee-jerk reaction with no grounds.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the presentation of the City of Military Glory certificates in Moscow’s Kremlin. Russia’s parliament voted Wednesday to suspend compliance with a key Cold War treaty limiting co...
Following President Vladimir Putin’s live broadcast Q&A session in mid-October, Robert Amsterdam published an entry on this blog which today led to an interesting cover story exposing a rather major factual mistake during the state broa...
Below are three parts of a documentary titled “The Rise and Fall of the Russian Oligarchs” produced by the program Human Edge for Canadian television. The documentary vastly simplifies the Khodorkovsky case, and commits many of the com...
Today the Duma voted 418-0 in favor of a new law scrapping Russia’s obligations to conform with the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE), an agreement which traces its roots all the way back to Nixon and Brezhnev. (Photo: AFP) Nobody s...
File this one under foregone conclusions: “$100 oil would have a big political impact” by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times. Mr. Rachman argues that the implications include more spending by Hugo Chavez abroad and more money for He...
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