On Tuesday, Robert Amsterdam argued on this blog that Russia will try to maintain the status quo of the relationship between Iran and the United States for as long as possible in order to advance its interests, as well as the possibility of an upc...
This week the German airline Lufthansa has found itself in a significant dispute with the Russian government, when their freight carrier subsidiary was banned from flyovers of Russian airspace – a political decision of enormous economic impa...
[Editor’s note: while this blog is ostensibly about Russian affairs, we also have a strong interest in global energy politics, and will be making an effort to occasionally branch out to discuss the impact of state-owned energy firms on the m...
Enemies of the People Everywhere or My Latest Contacts with Rosatom By Grigory Pasko, journalist In today’s Russia, if you voice your opinion, you can easily find yourself categorized as a “slanderer of the existing power” or as someone who, suppo...
A new article by Sergei Kovalev in the New York Review of Books explores the reasons behind Putin’s popularity. The attentive American reader is no doubt informed, if not in great depth or detail, about these and other current Russian politi...
A visitor looks at a photo showing Russian President Vladimir Putin with his wife Lyudmila at an exhibition called Russia’s First Ladies in Moscow, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze) At least 72 of the 600 United Russia candi...
From the WSJ editorial on Russia’s proposal of a new NGO focused on “monitoring the situation in Europe concerning rights of ethnic minorities, immigrants, media and such.” In any case, Europe hardly has a choice but to welcome t...
Here is a perfect example of the Doppelgänger theory of Russian politics: Whatever unsavory conduct the regime is guilty of, they turn around and blame their opponents of committing the very same acts, be it in areas of corruption, money launderin...
Neil Barnett writes about Russia energy disaggregation of Europe in the Spectator: Brussels, to its credit, is starting to wake up to this. Rules are being drafted to prevent companies which do not adhere to the EU’s energy charter — Gazprom for o...
From Boris Nemtsov’s new article in Kommersant: On that background, a movement in support of the third presidential term for Vladimir Putin is growing. Under the threat of F-grading or salary non-payment, students, teachers, and doctors are ...
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