Below is the second installment of Grigory Pasko’s video interview series with ordinary Russian citizens during his travels in the summer of 2007, Moscow-Petushki. The title of the series is borrowed by the popular work of samizdat by Venedi...
In Russia they’re accusing an American clergyman of arms smuggling By Grigory Pasko, journalist In Moscow, not far from the pretentiously ostentatious building of the state corporation «Rosatom», is found the plain and inconspicuous construction i...
Lev Ponomarev, who now facing criminal charges in Russia and has had his travel privileges revoked, is featured in a column by Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post today. But criminality isn’t limited to the Kremlin; it may be Russia’s...
OK, so here goes: The New York Times has published an article about another New York Times article which prompted strong responses from the Russian public. Yes, I think I’ve that right. What happened is that someone came up with the interest...
Deputy prime minister Dmitry Medvedev is in Serbia today, supposedly to focus on South Stream, a €10 billion ($14.65 billion) project designed to bring Siberian gas to Europe via the Black Sea, but also as a show of support after Russia supported ...
SeverStal, Russia’s biggest steelmaker, is to mount a $6 billion investment program in its home operations, including building several new plants and doubling output at one of its key factories this year. “Russia and China are two very excit...
TODAY: Orthodox Church endorses Medvedev; contract killings on the rise; BBC G7 poll on Putin; racially-motivated violence on the rise; increased media attention for Putin and Medvedev in run-up to elections. Alexei II, patriarch of the Russian Or...
Lionel Beehner at Huffington Post remarks on the near total absence of any Russia debate in the U.S. presidential campaign: What’s also remarkable is how little Russia has surfaced in the American presidential election–whereas it’...
The New York Times has published the first article of the pre-election series Kremlin Rules, entitled “Putin’s Iron Grip on Russia Suffocates His Opponents.” The Federal Security Service, known by its initials in Russian, F.S.B.,...
Can Dmitri Medvedev become the moderate that everyone hopes he will be? Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post argues that this will depend upon his ability to uproot the siloviki, and Putin may allow them to be “tossed to the anti-corruption w...
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