The New York Times has compiled a selection of excerpts from an interview held by Dmitri Medvedev, Vladimir Putin’s personally approved successor, with a group of foreign journalists last month. He spoke on state-owned corporations, Kremlin ...
Today: The world press gives its opinions on Dmitri Medvedev; excerpts from comments made by Medvedev at the World Economic Forum earlier this year; Russia will create an atomic power giant, Atomenergoprom, which is to be the nuclear equivalent of...
Disclaimer: the video below contains scenes of real violence committed against prison inmates by OMON (Russian police forces). It is not recommended for sensitive viewers. In commemoration of Human Rights Day, I wish I could share good news from m...
First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who Vladimir Putin is now backing in his run for the presidency, is a rock and roll aficionado. From RIA Novosti: In a recent interview with the Russian magazine Itogi, Medvedev revealed his passion for...
[Our correspondent in Russia recently discovered that the border town of Vyborg near St. Petersburg was going to hold discreet (practically secret) public hearings on Gazprom’s mega-project, the Nord Stream pipeline, to discuss the social an...
Today is recognized by the United Nations as Human Rights Day, beginning a year long celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A large event was held Geneva today to inaugurate this observance, featuring spe...
With regard to the news I posted earlier about Algeria’s crumbling deal with Gazprom, I wanted make note of some additional thoughts. In many respects, it really doesn’t matter that much to the Kremlin whether or not they are able to e...
It’s been more than one year now since the historic memorandum of understanding was signed between Gazprom and Algeria’s state-owned exporter Sonatrach, an agreement which in theory put 69% of Italy’s natural gas under the contro...
I came across an interesting Russian perspective on the missile shield issue from the Moscow Defense Brief: “The decision to deploy the “front lines” of the missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic is completely in tune with U...
Following today’s news of Medvedev’s nomination to run for president, Reuters has published some extracts from his January World Economic Forum speech, which is viewed by some analysts as his most official “keynote” address:
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