TODAY: EU monitors unhindered in South Ossetia; no grounds for Cold War, says Medvedev; soldier sent to Siberia over rap video; what’s wrong with Russian liberalism?; Supreme Court rules to rehabilitate the last Czar; Medvedev and Merkel to try re...
From Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post: McCain’s scorn for Barack Obama was on unrestrained display in Friday night’s debate. How dare this impudent whippersnapper imagine he can be president, you could almost see McCain thinking. I&#...
Blogger Robert Farley reads the news about Russian nuclear warships being dispatched for exercises off the coast of Venezuela, and asks some interesting questions about exactly how effective this move might be in terms of prompting a desirable out...
A news clip of the first deployment of European Union monitors to Georgia to observe the ceasefire agreement. Russia still is not allowing them to enter South Ossetia.
Former KGB officers really don’t like any aspect of the country’s affairs to be outside their control, be it an election, the media, civil society, or even the internet or racy cartoons. This is however especially true with the economy...
Remember how we posted that Nezavisimaya Gazeta translation which reported on a big shift in attitude among some groups within the Kremlin to forge better relations with the West? Remember when Alexander Lebedev openly complained about Putin’...
The financial crisis is forcing energy companies to reduce their projected spending plans, with Gazprom Neft suggesting a drop of 10-20%, but state nuclear corporation Rosatom has just been granted a six-year, $83 billion finance program by Prime ...
Russia suspended trading on its MICEX again yesterday morning for two hours, reportedly in an attempt to prevent volatility in the US market from spreading. Just how hard is the financial crisis hitting the oligarchs? Will debt problems in certain...
TODAY: Anti-corruption legislation marks renewed Medvedev campaign; stand-off in Brussels over Russia’s call to limit EU observers in South Ossetia; ties with Bolivia to be strengthened; the ongoing pro-Stalin trend. A new package of anti-co...
Ah, there’s nothing quite like American conservatives fighting amongst themselves to make an election interesting, and wake us up from eight years of the Bush consensus slumber. First, the party’s base really began to crumble this week...
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