Oleg Shvartsman is starting to get quoted more than even Chris Weafer these days. The shadowy government financier, who infamously coined the term “velvet reprivatization” in a tell-all interview with Kommersant before the parliamentar...
Today: Yabloko Youth Leader plans to unseat Yavlinsky and create a new movement; Economic Development and Trade Ministry will help spin Russia’s image to inspire investors; Sochi draws huge investment, Kaliningrad is experiencing a boom; London’s ...
Oleg Kozlovsky’s name should be familiar to regular readers of this blog. I recently visited his website and read his wonderful stories about his arrest and trial. Oh well, yet another one of Those Who Disagree with Putin and his “team” has underg...
Here’s an interesting one from Daniel Altman at IHT: China already has a tough time generating enough energy to supply its rapidly growing economy. But with a successful bid from China to operate the power grid in the Philippines, I wonder w...
The Kremlin, it seems, is getting quite fed up of all the negative news flowing out from its borders, bringing the world stories of political prisoners, crushed dissent, and flawed democratic process. Bad for business, no? Tonight the Moscow Times...
Michael Weiss, an editor of Jewcy.com, a blogger, and occasional columnist, has a new piece out about Vladimir Putin’s nomination of Dmitri Medvedev: “So the dim prospect that Medvedev is a late-blooming champion of de-Putinization bri...
There is a growing chorus of voices that argues that the United States and her closest allies are principally to blame for unfortunate revival of not-so-velvet authoritarianism in Russia. I agree wholeheartedly with some of these arguments –...
[This blog has closely followed the story of the FSB’s forced exile of Natalia Morari, an investigative journalist from the New Times magazine, and below we’re pleased to feature a special interview with her by our correspondent Grigor...
Beating out the stiff competition Al Gore, Hu Jintao, Barry Bonds and others, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been chosen as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. I’ll have more commentary on this later when I finish some meetings, ...
Sean’s Russia Blog has an interesting post which argues that just one scene from the beloved film The Godfather “says more about the fabled ‘Operation Successor’ than the typical analysis spewing from the pens and mouths of...
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
