This question was posed by Russia Profile to Ethan S. Burger, Eric Kraus, Ira Straus, Andrei Tsygankov, and Stephen Blank. The latter is the only one to really question some of the fundamental assumptions about Russia’s resurgence: “Th...
Yesterday we blogged about Russia’s need to keep Iran in the lurch with regard to delivery of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system. Also, the unexpected announcement by the Iranians appeared to have caught the Russians off guard, and led m...
Today: Russia denies sale of anti-aircraft missile to Iran, delivers second shipment of nuclear fuel; contraband caviar; British-Russian relations – “Cold War lite”. At the cabinet’s final session for the year, Vladimir Putin said that Prime...
Gazprom took control of Shell’s Sakhalin-2 project last year, and now appears to want a stake in ExxonMobil’s Sakhalin-1 venture as well, according to new reports alleging that Gazprom held talks to join the oil and gas project earlier...
US aviation giant Boeing has agreed to buy more than $1 billion worth of titanium components from domestic manufacturer VSMPO-Avisma. Peugeot Citron is to construct an automobile plant in Kaluga, signalling that its global partner, Mitsubishi, may...
In 2007, there were more than 50 billionaires in Russia and more than 100,000 millionaires. In 2002, there were just seven billionaires. (source: Economist)
Scholar Janusz Bugajski of CSIS thinks that the Kosovo issue will be the first major challenge of relations with Russia to be addressed during the U.S. presidential elections next year: The Putin leadership has deliberately created a sense of dang...
This polling data comes from Levada via Angus Reid. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? – The purpose of America’s foreign policy is the complete destruction of Russia. Agree – 43% Disagree – 42% Hard to answer – ...
Earlier today during President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the last cabinet meeting of the year, he commented on economic growth, foreign investment, food price controls and inflation, and said “we no longer depend on large profits from...
Below is the continuation of the statement from Andrei Novikov, the government critic and journalist who has been illegally held against his will in psychiatric confinement (see Part 1 here). Novikov, who is supported by international press freedo...
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