Despite Dmitry Medvedev’s anti-corruption drive, the number of registered corruption-related crimes in Russia’s law enforcement agencies increased by more than 35% in the first nine months of 2008. The dramatic drop in steel exports initiate...
TODAY: The return of President Putin? Medvedev’s state-of-the-nation address seen as a welcoming threat to Barack Obama; Poland certain US will go ahead with missile defense, Russia set to retaliate; EU to push for partnership talks to resume next...
Back in mid-October, Samuel Charap and Andrew Kuchins published a thoughtful op/ed piece in the International Herald Tribune entitled “Russia’s Peace Offensive,” which argued that there were signs that Dmitry Medvedev was strivin...
The AP is reporting that amongst the arrests and scuffles with police of Russian ultra-nationalists marching on National Unity Day, two Central Asia men were killed and another two were injured in hate-related assaults. A staffer from the the emba...
Is President Dmitry Medvedev paving the way for some constitutional changes to bring Vladimir Putin back into the presidency? Furthermore, after this one little constitutional edit, why not some more? From the Financial Times: But he dropped a bom...
This one from Garry Kasparov comes from The Other Russia: The window of opportunity for Obama to take advantage of the world’s curiosity and goodwill will be small. The crises we face are too big; the next US president will not enjoy much of a gra...
[The following analysis arrived today in my mailbox from a frequent reader, well known to us for his acerbic wit. As usual, he wishes to remain anonymous, but it seemed that this one was worth sharing. – Editor] In his “state of the fe...
Adrian Blomfield of the Telegraph observes that Barack Obama will step into the White House facing drastically different circumstances than George W. Bush did in 2000 to kick off the next phase of the U.S.-Russia relationship, and that Moscow is l...
Today I have been running in and out of meetings in Brussels all day, so I’ll have to make these blog posts quick and off-the-cuff. In discussing the election of Barack Obama with some colleagues here, it again occurred to me that many Europ...
We’ll have more commentary coming soon on this, but it appears that President Dmitry Medvedev has greeted the historic election of Barack Obama with a telegram of congratulations (“I expect to develop a constructive dialogue with you o...
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