This one is quite peculiar. Over at the advertising industry blog Adrants there’s a post about an campaign for the violent video game “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” which uses “real-life warmongers” posing as review...
Today’s news that the national champion hailing from my native Canada is pulling out of its $3.5 billion Baltic LNG project with Gazprom on the Yamal Peninsula offers a reminder of the perils of the energy business in Russia. According to CE...
This evening I am pleased to share the company of the Russia analyst Mr. David Satter, a colleague whose work I highly respect. During our conversation tonight, David mentioned that he had a new piece coming out in the Weekly Standard today, so I ...
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy, has a devastating new piece about the Kremlin’s business activities in Human Events: On June 2, 2006 proposing that Russia should retain control over strategic companies, a...
Today: Putin could become leader of new state; Bukovsky and Zyuganov to run for the presidency; Gazprom raises prices; Moldovan journalist barred from entering Russia; Medvedka vodka? Kremlin sources say Vladimir Putin could still accept the Russi...
Investigative journalist Natalia Morar of the New Times magazine, who had published muckraking articles about the falsification of election results and graft by high ranking government officials, has been expelled from the Russian Federation to Mo...
It is particularly illustrative (no pun intended) of how the Western media views the nomination of Dmitri Medvedev to look at the various graphic arts work published along with the articles. Two of the more amusing are below, from the New York Tim...
Yesterday an Other Russia activist, the 20-year-old Artem Basyrov, was committed to a psychiatric hospital against his will – another startling example of how the Soviet-era practice of punitive psychiatry is making a comeback. Other example...
Here’s a news clip looking into how Russia’s oil boom and new class of aristocracy is helping bring back some of the nation’s most treasured and valuable pieces of art and cultural patrimony. Find more videos like this on www.tru...
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