Gazprom has held talks with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with a view to becoming one of 12 potential “global” sponsors of the 2012 London Olympics. “I will say once again that we are firm in our intention to continue joint const...
A collection of mainly British companies will make hundreds of millions of pounds in revenue from the Kremlin’s plans for a $500 billion roadbuilding program, designed to solve the problem of Russia’s “parlous” infrastructure. Shares in Braz...
TODAY: EU report warns of conflict with Russia over energy resources; Putin warns that Western relations with Russia will be no easier under Medvedev. The next president is already the subject of popular Russian jokes – Kasparov says power s...
From ABC Australia: Only last month, a Russian bomber flew very low over the Nimitz and other US warships when they were in international waters near Japan. According to Russian military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer, what Moscow is doing with these i...
The following is an exclusive translation of a story from News.ru about Oleg Kozlovsky, an organizer of the youth movement Oborona (featured many times on this blog), who was unlawfully drafted into the army recently allegedly as punishment for hi...
Oleg Gordievsky, the former KGB turncoat whose James Bond-like appointment by the Queen of England raised quite a ruckus last year, has published a book review in the Times about the latest work of Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky. Felsht...
A reader kindly sent us an email alerting us to the fact that the BBC is broadcasting a segment featuring clips of the Yekaterinburg prison abuse tape, which this blog first brought to public attention (on Dec. 10) on our YouTube channel. The BBC ...
Here is the latest from Reuters on the press conference following German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Moscow: Putin: Medvedev to decide on oil tycoon’s pardon MOSCOW, March 8 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin sa...
Professor Khodnev: «What will be tomorrow – is unclear…» By Grigory Pasko, journalist I first met Professor Alexander Sergeyevich Khodnev in Washington several years ago. And several days ago, I met with him on the day of the elections of the pres...
Just when I think I’ve had it up to here reading article after article about the Russian government’s infamous youth group, Nashi, something comes along to make them relevant again. This time, as The Other Russia blog reports, the pro-...
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