In late September, we reported how a school classmate of imprisoned ex-YUKOS lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina had written a letter to president Dmitry Medvedev asking him to show mercy and grant a pardon to her friend, who had recently been denied parole ...
…and they’re not happy about facing an even deeper reliance on Russian energy, but such are the requirements being invited to the European club. The Financial Times reports on the upcoming closure of the Ignalina nuclear power pl...
Nick Witney, the former chief executive of the European Defense Agency, has an opinion piece in the Moscow Times bidding farewell to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – an institution whose usefulness has been outlived, he argues: NATO ...
This guy at the BBC really grills a representative from the Georgian government over the start of the war, dispelling whatever notion there may have been about the media being too tame on the issue. As if to answer, Mikheil Saakashvili has a...
In the past, we’ve done a fair amount of blogging about the staggering business lobby enjoyed by the Kremlin in Germany, and the various questions and tensions this sometimes raises in terms of managing Berlin’s relations with third pa...
From Anne Applebaum’s column: (…) Russian foreign policy is, at the moment, based on a strange paradox. On one hand, the Russians have returned to the language, iconography and even historiography of imperialism. With every passing yea...
We encourage everyone to stop by the beautiful, brand new Khodorkovsky & Lebedev Communications Centre, which launched today. You’ll find not only everything you ever needed to know about the case and its geopolitical context, but ...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a funding document on the design and construction of the Baltic Pipeline System. Russia’s oil exports have reached their lowest level this year, and oil has hit a 3-year-low, dropping below $50 ...
Dmitry Medvedev apparently has his eye on the problem of late wage payments. Questions handpicked for Vladimir Putin’s question and answer broadcast this week will ‘reflect citizens’ fears of possible social and economic up...
TODAY: US snubs Russia’s Latin American cooperation; NATO and EU seek to mend Russia ties; corruption in Armed Forces over $75 million; Far East security, HIV, art slump. Joint exercises by the Venezuelan and Russian navies have begun in the...
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