Joshua Keating at FP Passport points to this darkly humorous quote from the Foreign Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski: “Of course we don’t like it when the Russian president or Russian generals threaten us with nuclear annihilation...
Not long ago, I read with great interest a blog post over at the Volokh Conspiracy, which makes reference to recent comparisons between the administration of George W. Bush and the political philosophy of the Nazi-era law professor Carl Schmitt &#...
The colour of freedom and joy Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. President Medvedev has signed an ukase about the official flag of the FSB. That is, as I understand it, for ful...
Any regular visitor to this blog has likely already read the transcript if not seen the presidential debate – but for those who haven’t, the video below shows how each candidate’s comments played to the television audience.
From a very interesting article by Charles Glover in the Financial Times, more evidence of Russia’s “dual state” of functioning courts and non-functioning political courts: “If you get a ruling from a high court in London, it is ...
An interesting column from Melik Kaylan at Forbes, who spends some time following Mikheil Saakashvili during last week’s UNGA, and gets into a debate with Owen Matthews about Russia’s ambitions and the legitimacy of their current griev...
Russia and South Korea have signed a preliminary agreement on a $90 billion energy supply project involving Gazprom and Kogas. The 30-year project is planned to go ahead in 2015, and will allow Russia to diversify away from Europe as well as linki...
Russian research firm the Romir Group has released a new study suggesting that inflation in the country is at roughly 40% – significantly higher than official estimates. The MICEX continues to suffer. Pledging a further $50 billion to increa...
I have always wondered if there was a quantitative minimum level of GDP growth necessary for the successful consolidation of authoritarian capitalism – sure, the people might say, this government has taken away my right to vote, jailed and e...
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