TODAY: Medvedev wants 24-hour farming TV; advertising firms being coerced for billboard space in run-up to elections. News of Patarkatsishvili death hits the British press; Yushchenko to pass law on military bases following Putin’s threats. Presid...
This one is from the Boston Globe: Freedom and fear: a Russian paradox By Cathy Young February 13, 2008 OPTIMISM is not an attitude one would expect these days from a human rights activist in Russia – not when, after rigged parliamentary ele...
Following his column about Lev Ponomarev, Bret Stephens of the WSJ discusses the story on this video. The Journal linked to our video on YouTube, which received about 15,000 views within 24 hours.
In a new editorial, the New York Times takes aim at the Kremlin’s favorite narrative that Russia was in hopelessly dire straits before Vladimir Putin took power, and that the solution to all the country’s ills was to reign in the oliga...
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine settled a row over gas debts just minutes before a Moscow-imposed deadline for Kiev to pay up or face supply cuts. The countries agreed to axe intermediaries in gas trade and RosUkrEnergo has been excluded, alt...
Sberbank, Russia’s largest state-controlled bank, has started actively buying shares on the market. An embargo on travel and trade between Georgia and Russia that has lasted almost 16 months could end as early as this month. The flagship Mos...
TODAY: Putin threatens to target missiles at Ukraine but Russia wants a ban on the use of weapons in space; Russia’s ‘Corporate Raiders’; Boris Nemtsov suspends membership of Union of Right Forces. Vladimir Putin will give his seventh and final an...
Déja-vu in Brussels, Part 1 By Grigory Pasko, journalist In Moscow Recently, Polish prime-minister Donald Tusk visited Moscow and offered Russia a new variant for the construction of a new «Yamal-Europe» gas pipeline as an alternative to the «Nord...
It sounds like it was quite the bash: 6,000 people attending performances by Tina Turner, Deep Purple, and Alla Pugacheva (who managed to get both Dmitri Medvedev and Sergei Ivanov to get up and dance in front of the stage) to help Gazprom celebra...
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