Yesterday we blogged about the death of hockey star Alexei Cherepanov. Today an ESPN columnist makes a call for greater transparency in Russia’s top league, the KHL: Many hockey people who have been to Russia in recent years — whether ...
Today the New York Times has published a “Last Call” for a number of people to pose op/ed questions before the candidates as the debate approaches tonight. It’s interesting that the Democrat Bill Bradley has chosen to throw out t...
I was emailed the other day by La Russophobe, whose disagreements with this blog are robust, asking to bring attention to the case of the Russian literature professor Boris Sokolov, who appears to have lost both his position at the university as w...
The press and blogosphere are of course having a field day with the news that executives from Gazprom are enjoying a road show in Alaska this week to woo local representatives and meet with ConocoPhillips, possibly discussing participation in natu...
The government is to lend its four major energy companies up to $9 billion to help them survive the financial crisis. Gazprom has announced that it has offered to help Alaska develop its natural resources, and has accordingly sent a group of senio...
It is expected that a slowdown in growth across the board in all sectors, and particularly for finance specialists, will lead to severe job losses. This report indicates that emerging market stocks, including Russia’s, have fallen harder in the la...
TODAY: Russian armed forces to be halved; Russia-Georgia talks begin amid pessimism; China and Russia solve border dispute; nepotism case sees sixteen notaries fired; Russia supplying arms to Darfur, says human rights group. Politkovskaya hearings...
The Financial Times is running a story tonight about an $87 billion bailout plan by the Russian government to ease the fall of some of the country’s most wealthy and overleveraged men – allowing the government enormous power to determi...
Firstly I need to apologize to all my readers for having been away from the blog all day. I had a long flight from Europe to North America today, but not before I was in contact with many people asking about Karinna Moskalenko, one of Mikhail Khod...
The fervent brand of nationalism that has flourished in Vladimir Putin’s Russia has taken on many forms, from Nashi youth rallies to nostalgic trends of consumerism to violence against immigrants. But perhaps the most vibrant arena for these...
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