I’m just amazed by the dizzying news cycle of all these broadcast outlets during my brief visit to New York City this week. It’s actually quite hypnotic and surreal … I think that a few more days of this and I won’t even re...
Below is a translation of a piece of news from Interfax reporting on a court’s decision to release former Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak, who was the right-hand man of Russia’s last remaining financial liberal, Alexei Kudrin, ...
S. Adam Cardais of TOL writes that Russia is “basking” in its the international glamor of being able to bailout Iceland: “And Russia is positioned, as a revitalized once-superpower flush with cash, to rescue Iceland, a NATO membe...
The BBC reports that Russia’s economy, especially the construction and real estate sector, is grinding to a halt… But below Prime Minister Putin continues to insist that everything is peachy. RA has commented that the word “crisi...
The New York Review of Books has published a review of the film Letter to Anna: The Story of Journalist Politkovskaya’s Death, written by Amy Knight. You can order a copy of the DVD of this documentary here. The trailer is here. By the time of Cha...
Today Diane Francis writes about Robert Amsterdam’s work in Singapore defending Dr. Chee Soon Juan. Fortunately, a team of lawyers, led by Canadian law firm Amsterdam & Peroff in Toronto, has been set up in order to help Dr. Chee defend...
One of the benefits of the global financial crisis, if we allow ourselves to look for such a token silver linings, is that a number of major flaws and vulnerabilities of the world’s financial and political systems are being exposed for exami...
I have been obsessed with this news about Vasily Alexanyan today, and the subsequent censorship and intervention by some propaganda department within the Kremlin. As if the horrific fate of Alexanyan is not enough to bring back memories of the USS...
This is starting to get scary. Like we said months ago, keep your eye on the Russian currency as the bellwether of her political environment. From the Associated Press: The ruble has declined steadily since the Aug. 7 start of the five-day war wit...
While we were the first ones to say that the Kremlin’s preferred candidate for the U.S. presidency was Sen. John McCain, this story is just ridiculous, prompting the Russian Mission to the UN to issue a statement reminding the world “t...
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