Over at Transitions Online, Aleksandr Kolesnichenko writes about the increasing pressure against radio station owners out in the far-flung regions of Russia carrying content from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, who can even sometimes face crimina...
During the last showdown between Gazprom and the Ukraine in 2006, there were two competing narratives about the company’s motivations behind the supply cut – one arguing that the dispute was purely commercial, and the other pointing to...
An excellent quote pulled from Roger Boyes op/ed in the Times of London: “Gazprom itself is neither good nor bad,” say the Russian authors Valery Panyushkin and Mikhail Sygar, “it is like a Kalashnikov or a Colt that can be used ...
Clifford Gaddy of Brookings and Barry Ickes of Pennsylvania State University have a new piece on the Putin economic model in The National Interest. As usual with this publication, we have a number of disagreements about the piece, its underl...
National Public Radio has a three-part series on the Russia-Ukraine natural gas war this week, which seems to be all anybody is talking about today. I’m pleased to see that they are at least focusing on the Germans. Part 1: The p...
When the tandemocracy of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev successfully pushed through a constitutional amendment to extend the presidential term from four to six years in just 50 days, the reactions were diverse. This new bill, along with ...
The index of Russian service industries has plummeted to a record low, as curbed spending signaled the likelihood of a recession. Russia’s rouble devaluation is piling pressure on the currencies of its neighbours and putting those with...
TODAY: Putin orders further cuts to Ukraine; Bulgaria supplies at ‘critical’ levels; EU officials forecasting further cuts. Russia’s analysts offer predictable predictions; the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.Prime Minist...
Who lives well in Russia? Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In their day, every schoolchild in the USSR knew the phrase that serves as the title of this article – a poem...
A short piece by Liam Denning in the Wall Street Journal points out the problematic strategy behind Russia’s ambitious plan to spend $1.1 trillion on infrastructure by 2015, theoretically providing a cushion for crisis. The problem:&nb...
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