Year: 2008

July 10, 2008

Kasparov Disputes Kissinger’s Imagined Russia

Garry’s got a new op/ed in the Financial Times, which, among other arguments, suggests that recent platitudes offered by Terry Davis and Henry Kissinger show an inverse correlation between democracy and the price of gasoline. Robert Mugabe w...
July 10, 2008

Putin’s Rise to Pop Culture Humor

For the BBC, it’s a breaking news story; for author Steve LeVine, it’s the subject of his polemic new book; but for Anthony Lane, the rather apolitical film critic of the New Yorker, Vladimir Putin’s reputation for state-sponsore...
July 10, 2008

Grigory Pasko: The calm before the … what?

The calm before the … what? Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. Usually, there is a calm before a storm. In the glass that is Russia’s turbid and muddy life, which the leadershi...
July 10, 2008

Video: David Speedie on Russia

You may not have known it, but Russia has a unique ability to “drive the Anglo-American world mad.” Hmmm … not sure if that is how I would put it, but this is the point of departure in a recent talk given by David Speedie of the ...
July 10, 2008

Rice’s Double Entendre Warning to Iran and Russia

Blogger Matt Stone at the Global Buzz speculates that Condoleezza Rice’s commentary on the Iranian missile (the photos of which appear to have been partially faked) during her visit to Georgia has drawn Tbilisi into the spat, with a double e...
July 10, 2008

Russia’s G8 Credibility Problem

Lawyer Peter Belk and Alexandros Petersen of CSIS have a new article in the IHT discussing Russia’s credibility problem as a member of the G8, and what can be done to solve it (actually, I believe the authors quote the Spider-Man movie: R...
July 10, 2008

Energy Blast – July 10, 2008

Viktor Vekselberg, chairman of Russian investment company Renova Group and TNK-BP shareholders, wants a “peaceful solution” to the joint venture dispute over management and strategy, and has drawn up a “four-point peace proposal”. Depu...
July 10, 2008

Today in Russian Business – July 10, 2008

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a list of members for a government commission overseeing foreign investment in strategic sectors. “New limits on foreign investment in Russian companies will restrict non-Russians to no more than 5% of mi...
July 10, 2008

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 10, 2008

TODAY: Russia “upset” over US missile shield; is Medvedev changing his mind on Zimbabwe?; Rice in Georgia, rattling Russia; Moscow awaiting explanation from Britain on Litvinenko claims. Russia is “extremely upset” about the signing of...