From Denis MacShane on Comment is Free: Now, the Kremlin has thrown down a new challenge to Sarkozy, to the EU, and to the OSCE (one of the most important examples of successful US diplomacy) at a time when Washington preferred jaw-jaw to war-war....
From Reuters – more on this topic here. “The younger generation is fed with myths about Stalin. It knows nothing about the millions who died in Gulag camps but well knows he was a strong leader who defeated (Nazi) Germany,” human...
Here’s a story of a peculiar accident from the Daily Mail, but interestingly enough, the tax authorities re-opened their claims against the British Council several days earlier. A British diplomat in Moscow knocked over a pedestrian who turn...
From the intro of a very interesting story in tomorrow’s Washington Post by Tara Bahrampour, which seeks to provide a glimpse of the human side of the conflict in Georgia. This fall, as I was preparing to travel to the Georgian breakaway reg...
I must confess that I was expecting this New York Times editorial on President-elect Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin to be much, much worse. Still, most everyone who has found their way to this blog is likely way above this shallow treatment...
It’s been a pretty slow news week in Russia, and my suspicion that this involves something more than just the approach of the Jan. 7 Orthodox Christmas. We’ve had relatively few events of any major importance in the political environme...
Karl Marx’s famous declaration of religion being the opium of the masses continues to raise interesting discussions even today, as various observers debate the new role of church-and-state ties in the context of moral ambiguity and armed con...
In light of the unraveling of the prosecution’s case in the Anna Politkovskaya trial, David Satter has a new column in Forbes detailing some of the alleged connections between the FSB and several murder cases of journalists. The involvement ...
Various analysts have been predicting over the fall that the economic crisis would provide the Russian government with an opportunity to gradually take over the crown jewel of mining, Norilsk Nickel. Today’s appointment of Alexander Vo...
David Kakabadze of RFE/RL has a piece up commenting on Russia’s successful campaign to eliminate most outside participants (the OSCE) from the conflict resolution process in the Caucases – and argues that the West should really stop pr...
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