Video: Medvedev Drops the C-Bomb
No, not the c-bomb that John McCain dropped, but rather he said the forbidden word regarding the current economy…
Year: 2008
Video: Russia’s Debt Rating Gets Downgraded
Between Business as Usual and Isolation
This is from Michael McFaul’s recent testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Sept. 9, 2008. Two responses currently being debated among America’s foreign policy elite – business as usual and isolation – must be avoided. Th...
The Azeri Dance
Good piece in the New York Times today about Azerbaijan. “Azerbaijan is doing a dance between the West and Russia,” said Isa Gambar, an Azeri opposition figure. “Until now, there was an unspoken consensus. Georgia was with the West, Armenia was an...
Human Rights Goes on Trial in Singapore with Chee Soon Juan Case
As many regular readers of my blog already know, I am involved in the international legal support of the Singapore dissident Chee Soon Juan. Today he went on trial, and the following press release has been distributed to media. I urge everyone to ...
The Solution to the U.S. Economic Crisis
Who says propaganda’s dead? RIA Novosti reports: Lukashenko says crisis prompts U.S. to look to Belarus model. Oh yes, that’s a great idea. What we really need are political prisoners, no free speech, flagrant corruption, zero transpar...
Is Obama’s Russia Team Ready?
Edward Lozansky is very critical of Sen. Barack Obama’s Russia team of advisers, claiming that the Kremlin would prefer to deal with the Bush administration. Then again, the guy loses a lot of credibility when he asks his audience to believe...
Mary Dejevsky on the Corfu Yacht Saga
It seems this Oleg Deripaska-Lord Mandelson problem just won’t seem to go away: The only one of Mr Deripaska’s non-attributable disclaimers I find hard to get to grips with is his supposed failure to understand why the Conservatives pu...
Oleg Kozlovsky Receives Human Rights Award
As is being reported on the Human Rights in Russia website, coordinator of the Oborona movement, Oleg Kozlovsky, has received the Human Rights Award, conferred annually by the human rights organization Human Rights First. As they reported in the p...
Russian Government Invests in Domestic Securities
It was one of those rare moments that one of Vladimir Putin’s people humiliated him in public. It was on May 23, 2007, when Putin “suggested studying the possibility of investing funds received from sales of Russian energy in Russian b...