Today Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas – and here are some photos from the festivities in Russia. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets children as he visits Father Frost’s palace in Veliky Ustyug in the Vologda region,...
The Telegraph ran a interview with Alexander Mamut of SUP yesterday, the new Kremlin-loyalist owner of LiveJournal (which we have blogged about here and here). Mamut comes off pretty eloquently, remarking that for some Russians in the blogosphere,...
Here’s a clip from the Saturday U.S. presidential debates, during which New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson remarks that one of the first things he would do if elected president would be to “seek immediate negotiations with the Soviet Unio...
UK gas bills could rise 17% this year, with the price increase reportedly being “blamed on Russian supplier Gazprom”. Gazprom’s moves to tap Nigeria’s huge energy reserves “will send shivers through western governments already concerned about a sh...
TODAY: Russian Christmas; Clinton on Putin; Georgian elections – Russia doubts democracy; Poland signals stronger position on missile defense shield; Russia and the Middle East; could Russia give the OSCE a hard time this year? It is Christm...
Analysts praising Russia’s strong performance “ignore the fact that Russia’s inflation demons are rearing their ugly heads and showing every sign of getting worse.” Oligarchs Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov, previously joint owners of...
A new report from the Financial Times on the potential Gazprom natural gas deal in Nigeria reveals that the company aims to control the country’s LNG export market to Europe and the United States, but Russia still hasn’t provided any d...
Vladimir Putin is certainly not the first Russian to nab the cover of Time Magazine. In addition to Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Sakharov, Brezhnev and many others, if we go all the way back to Dec. 16, 1935, the cover was graced by the legendary Alexei St...
It was a fantasy come true for the Kremlin apologists. Distracted for just a moment from their diligent yet nutty work debunking the supposedly anti-Putin agenda/conspiracy in the international press (how these people reconcile that position with ...
A few days ago Charles Krauthammer had a column discussing the rather imperfect democratic legacy of the recently assassinated Pakistani opposition figure Benazir Bhutto. The core question, the columnist argues, is whether or not democratic forms ...
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