Russia’s suggestive banter may have some overtones of childish games, but it’s clear they really want to produce some different outcomes in their talks with the West by bringing up these threats. From the IHT: “Our neighbors are ...
Here’s an interesting bit from Jossip: Along with blue jeans and Bruce Springsteen, a new American commodity is being controversially exported to the Motherland. South Park, which sparked controversy and loud public cries for it’s remo...
The International Energy Agency predicts that global oil demand could fall to its lowest level in six years this year. Exxon Mobil and Shell are both shutting refineries in anticipation of Hurricane Ike. LUKoil’s two major shareholders have increa...
As the MICEX fell for the third day in a row, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that foreign capital inflows could fall by 45% this year, but that he does not believe the drop is related to the Georgian war. Alexei Kudrin says Russia is consideri...
TODAY: Putin’s three-hour interview both “pugilistic and needy”; Medvedev focuses on military; confusion over South Ossetia’s aims; ongoing tension over Georgia affecting UN debates. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave a three-hour interview yester...
I think it is very respectful and commendable that despite these current days of war, extreme diplomatic hostilities, and fundamental disagreements between the United States and Russia over the future direction of the international system, that so...
Day of the Prisoner Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. On the website Grani.ru, the writer Eduard Limonov, who heads the National-Bolshevik Party (which has been banned in Russ...
Eduard Kokoity, the former wrestler and South Ossetian separatist, today offered conflicting versions of his new country’s relations with Moscow, saying originally his new government’s strategy was to join Russia but now disavowing the...
The other day we linked to a sardonic column by Yulia Latynina which commented on the contradiction between Russia’s current rampant anti-Westernism combined with its enthusiastic embrace of its well marketed branded goods. In a similar vein...
Bill Powell at Fortune magazine has a very interesting piece running about the methods and tactics used by Vladimir Putin’s inner circle of former KGB officers to seize control of the economy. With the markets in free fall after the diplomat...
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