Video: Remembering Nord Ost
October 24th marked the sixth anniversary of the Nord Ost theater hostage.
Month: October 2008
Pundit Ping Pong on Russia
We often pointed out the amusing foibles of those who attempt to inject Russia issues into the U.S. partisan debate. Sometimes it seems that liberals find themselves cowed into a defensive posture, praising the public benefits of Putinist authorit...
Grigory Pasko in Tagesspiegel
The following is a translation of an opinion column by Grigory Pasko published in the German newspaper Tagesspiegel. Joyful Books, Sad Truths By Grigory Pasko There is a funny book in Russia, the Russian Federation’s penal code. It is funny becaus...
Barclays at the Kremlin’s Door
Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the British bank Barclays is looking to raise some $10 billion in capital from Kremlin-controlled banks Sberbank and VTB. The bank has studiously avoided any government bailout plan in the UK, which ...
Iran and Russian Interest
The attentive reader may recall that Sergei Lavrov got a little bit prickly in response to U.S. sanctions on the state arms exporter Rosoboronexport. During yesterday’s press debriefing at the State Department, one journalist got a brief res...
Energy Blast – Oct 28, 2008
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Wen Jiabao, his Chinese counterpart, will meet today to discuss the details of a potential oil export deal, which could see China offering Russia a $25 billion loan. Vietnam, meanwhile, has signed an oil explorati...
Today in Russian Business – Oct 28, 2008
‘Russia and metal stocks are toxic.’ Will the Russian film industry, amid rising production costs, survive the credit crunch? Major airline Krasnoyarsk Airlines has all but ceased operations due to debt issues. The Kremlin will bail out Russia’s c...
RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Oct 28, 2008
TODAY: French police conclude Moskalenko poisoning was ‘an accident’; Russia criticizes US over Syrian attack, offers Cuba support; Saakashvili dismisses PM; British MP admits it was a ‘mistake’ to meet Deripaska; youth groups, internet firewalls....
Grigory Pasko: Interview with Zakhar Prilepin
Talk of a writer with a lieutenant-colonel Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In the writer Zakhar Prilepin’s essay “Поедем на авто, несогласный?” [“Shall we ...
The Opportunity in Russia’s Economic Weakness
Doug Bandow, a former Reagan hand, is one of those unique right-wing guys who pushes the realist soft policy approach with Russia (more Kissinger than McCain, that is). Today he argues that “the incoming U.S. administration should use the pr...