There’s an interesting letter to the editor in today’s Wall Street Journal, responding to a recent Garry Kasparov column. The reader argues that it would be extremely unwise for the West to question the legitimacy of Dmitry Medvedev...
Russia and Ukraine are expected to resume talks today on their long-running natural gas dispute. The two countries have already partially resolved the dispute, with Ukraine agreeing to pay off about a $1 billion of its debt. The price of Russia...
A new survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers says that Moscow and Istanbul real estate investment returns are likely to surpass Paris and London, with faster growth in emerging markets pushing up rents and fueling demand for property. Raven Russia, the ...
TODAY: Putin the Theatre Critic. Music students protest eviction, factory workers protest unpaid wages. Praise for remnants of Communism. US and Poland reach agreement on missile defense. Russian relations with Georgia and South Africa. Students a...
Another expanded report on the recent leaked videotapes exposing human rights abuses in Russia’s prisons. The dispute has moved on to the exact date of the recording – the authorities claim the video dates back to the 1990s, while othe...
This one comes from Nina Khrushcheva: Indeed, Russia’s liberal promises have been shattered time after time. Nikita Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization reforms ended with Leonid Brezhnev’s stagnation; Boris Yeltsin’s democratization resulted in Putin’s ...
From the FT: A newly resurgent Moscow, fuelled by energy money, is attempting to assert itself on the world stage once again. For the first time since Stalin’s famous Seven Sisters (the gothic/deco skyscrapers commissioned as Communism’s riposte t...
This news item was translated from OBSHCHAYA GAZETA.RU: Oleg Kozlovsky will demand 100,000 rubles from Ministry of Defense for unlawful conscription Coordinator of the opposition movement “Oborona” Oleg Kozlovsky, demobilized from the ranks of the...
It is not just an American problem … the following exclusive translation from News.ru reports that the Ministry of Information has announced that all telephone and internet service providers must allow unrestricted wiretapping and monitoring...
Newsweek has an interesting article today by Owen Matthews which takes a look at the struggles amongst the siloviki during the transition to Medvedev, reiterating much of what has been argued on this blog. According to Matthews’s sources, th...
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