The Washington Post has an editorial today which strongly opposes a recent decision by the Belgian Olympic Committee to expressly forbid its athletes from making political statements in Olympic venues. Britain and New Zealand also appear to be muz...
Dr. Fraser Cameron of the EU-Russia Centre has a new opinion article in European Voice which takes a critical look at the legacy of Putinism, focusing especially on the tragic failure of the administration to take advantage of record high energy p...
Way back in May, I blogged about what could be learned about Operation Successor from the speculative futures market trading on the gambling site Trade Sports, where users could buy and sell the political futures of individuals such as Dmitri Medv...
An opinion piece on Dmitry Medvedev, written by popular Russian author Victor Erofeyev, has appeared in today’s New York Times. With so much negative attention from the Western press focused on Sunday’s presidential elections, it is surprising to ...
Today’s newspapers are full of speculation about Sunday’s presidential elections and the dynamics of the future roles of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin following them. Much of the attention is focusing on voter turnout, with low nu...
Dmitry Medvedev turned Gazprom, “a Soviet-era industrial basket case that made $670 million in 1998 into one of the world’s biggest industrial concerns, with profits reaching $25 billion last year. Gazprom is far more than a mere energy prov...
Read an in-depth report on Russia’s economy from The Economist here. Russia’s central bank has announced that it is suffering “not insignificant” losses as a holder of securities in US home finance firms. Finnish utility Fortum has committed...
TODAY: Russia says that EU mission in Kosovo was “illegal”. The divide beween Russia’s rich and poor is increasing. Head of the electoral commission says coverage has been “unequal but fair”. Voters pressured to turn out on Sunday. Russia has made...
For quite a long time, I have lamented the near total lack of any discussion about policy positions toward Russia by the U.S. presidential candidates – and then, when we finally get a question posed by NBC’s Tim Russert to Senators Hil...
From an editorial by the Moscow Times: Rossia television has laid to rest any lingering doubts about whether the level of propaganda on state television has returned to record Cold War highs. Konstantin Syomin, an anchor with “Vesti Plus,...
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