TODAY: Second journalist killed, another beaten up as police curb protests. Ukrainian government in turmoil over Russia. Georgia to receive almost $2 billion in US and IMF aid. Germany fears Russian influence; Lavrov in Poland. Putin says US agent...
US Vice President Dick Cheney will visit the Caucasus to try and promote US interests and counterbalance fears about Russia’s energy dominance in the area. This article charts the progress of a Trans-Caspian energy pipeline. “The real cause for co...
“Moscow’s current economic dilemma is that the old sources of growth will soon be exhausted.” Law enforcement officers have raided the Moscow headquarters of mobile phone retailer Yevroset. Mechel, Russia’s biggest coking coal producer, is s...
TODAY: Medvedev says EU summit “double-edged”, calls Saakashvili a “political corpse”, and threatens to terminate WTO agreements; Putin warns of Russian response to Nato warships; Turkey plays down disagreements. Meet the minigarchs. President Dmi...
Sometimes it’s fun to see the Kremlin talking points for the week emerge surreptitiously from the office of Vladislav Surkov, and then spread out through the Russian then international media by a variety of mid- to high-level functionaries u...
Say what you want about Russia, but nobody would dispute their genius with propaganda. While EU leaders met in Brussels for an emergency summit to discuss what should be done about the invasion of Georgia, Russian television releases a clip of Put...
Oleg Kozlovsky is a Russian civil society leader and organizer of the youth movement Oborona. From time to time, he contributes opinion articles to this blog. Below is his latest appeal to help a regional opposition leader who has come under attac...
I am reading a lot of op/eds today. Here are just a few… WaPo: Russia, on the other hand, is seeking to overthrow a democratically elected government precisely because that government does not want to be subjugated to Moscow. Mr. Medvedev...
It would be safe to assume that the former Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder would align himself with Russia, no matter how the Kremlin handles its confrontations in its periphery. As an official employee of the Kremlin, nothing less could be...
A new book by Bernard-Henri Lévy, Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against The New Barbarism, will have a good chapter dedicated to the resurgence of Russia. Here’s an excerpt from a review: Solzhenitsyn dies, unleashing a torrent of memorial jou...
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