Breaking news: a new survey shows that nearly 60% of Russian citizens approve of the government’s efforts to censor media!!! (AFP) Oh wait, these numbers are coming from the Kremlin controlled the Russian Centre for Public Opinion Research (...
File this one under foregone conclusions: There’s a new Russian study which has surprisingly identified several of the key aspects of Putinist Russia (no political competition, no free press, no demographic plan, no rule of law, and no regar...
Isn’t it interesting that it is the Democratic, rather than Republican, candidate for the U.S. presidency who is causing the ghosts of Reaganism to stir once again? Barack Obama’s simple yet revolutionary ideas of principled engagement...
[Editor’s note: Our correspondent Grigory Pasko has been writing extensively on the Nord Stream gas pipeline project for over a year already. In the spring of 2007, he filed a series of reports from northern Russia, where the approaches to t...
Yesterday Bob blogged about the Lithuania proposal to host the U.S. anti-ballistic missile shield as a bluff related to Vilnius’s energy desperation and Washington’s pressures on Poland. Today the Associated Press takes his cue: Easter...
The presence of government-controlled business titans is largely unprecedented in history, bringing forward new questions about how their conduct can affect global markets. The OECD appears to be on the case, giving greater scrutiny to state-owned...
The old barriers which used to separate the Russian expatriate community in London from the rest of the citizens appear to be beginning to dissolve, as billionaires snap up high value works of art, hold elegant benefits and fund raisers, and enthu...
The Economist writes on energy security in the Baltics, suggesting that Lithuania’s potential involvement with the controversial US missile shield is related to energy politics. Royal Dutch Shell has closed the Bonga oilfield, one of Africa’...
Azerbaijan, Russia, and Iran have signed the final protocol for construction of the Kazvin-Resht-Astara railroad. Severstal is still interested in acquiring US steel company Esmark Inc, despite being rebuffed in its $1.24 billion takeover offer. P...
TODAY: EU-Russia Summit to be held next week; new row with Lithuania; federal programs; corruption and Russia’s “rotten” legal system. Leading up to next week’s EU-Russia Summit, European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson says that Russia and the...
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