As long as we’ve got some other Arctic news today, there’s also an interesting op/ed in Ontario’s Peterborough Examiner about the “acute embarrassment” of how far behind the United States is in developing a policy for...
The New York Times has a very interesting article today about a retired U.S. Navy officer, Alfred S. McLaren, who claims that the Russians stole his idea and plan for a polar dive under the Arctic ice cap, which of course resulted in the polemical...
Many newspapers picked up on Dmitri Medvedev’s comments regarding the British Council spat from a long interview with Itogi the other day. Now JRL has offered some translated excerpts from the report with Russia’s next president. Itogi...
More news on an extremely complicated situation from Eurasia Daily Monitor: Those concerned about Russian exploitation of a Kosova “precedent” overlooked the fact that Moscow remains more than content to exploit the existing, “frozen” situation in...
A “clear majority” of west Europeans regard Russia as an unreliable energy supplier but remain resistant to paying more for alternative supplies from renewable energy sources. Russia’s largest crude producer Rosneft will spend ar...
Russian steel and mining company Evraz Group, part-owned by Roman Abramovich, intends to buy up to 51% of Singapore-listed Delong Holdings for about $1.49 billion. Russia says itconsiders Vietnam “a prospective market”. Temporary restrictions have...
TODAY: Medvedev accuses British Council of espionage; Kosovo leaves Russia isolated in Europe; former nuclear energy minister found guilty of fraud. Dmitry Medvedev says he backs the decision to close down the British Council’s outlets in St...
Last summer our tireless Russia correspondent Grigory Pasko made several long journeys across the vast regions of Russia on various journalism assignments with a video camera in tow. Pasko took advantage of the opportunity to speak with many ordin...
This month BBC Radio 4 is featuring an excellent three-part series of reports by Tim Whewhell entitled “Dancing with the Russian Bear.” Part 1 can be heard here, and Part 2, a segment all about Russia’s “pipeline power̶...
Martin Wolf’s column on Russia from last week’s FT has been provoking some strong reactions, including a letter to the editor from Ambassador Yuri Fedotov. Mr. Fedotov bitterly dismisses Wolf’s criticism, citing economic growth i...
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