The death of long-time conservative scholar Samuel Huntington has kicked off a lively discussion in various quarters on his legacy, his ideas, and his enduring argument – made much more popular after 9/11 – that the fundamental source ...
The power and its competence Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. There’s a strange organization in Russia. It’s called the «Public chamber». In the image of this str...
At least one person out there doesn’t seem to think that the low oil prices and economic difficulties is going to derail Russia’s agenda to seize back control of its periphery … but then again, this is Fox News. It seems od...
This video has been making its way around the internet over the past few days. It shows the opening of a Moscow retailer which had advertised discounts of 80% on laptops, but only had ten of them to sell. The Russian shoppers show a pa...
We posted an earlier review of this book here. The following comes from Andrew Nagorski at Truthdig: Right at the beginning of “History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks,” Sean McMeekin reminds reade...
The natural gas dispute between Gazprom and the Ukraine is creating upward pressure on crude oil futures, along with the conflict in the Gaza Strip. Official data shows that Russian oil production decreased by about 1% in 2008 due to ageing ...
To the shock of citizens, the Belarus ruble has slid 20% in value as the government pegged the currency for the first time to exchange basket equally split between dollars, euros, and Russian rubles. The IMF has also negotiated a $2.5 billio...
TODAY: Worries over the gas cut off, no more jury trials, an evacuation in Gaza, war games with Greece, Czechs in charge of the EU, a scandal with the Philippines, more Arctic fighting, and the Russian Navy is deployed to fight the Somali pirates....
On this day nine years ago, Vladimir Putin was sworn into office, bearing lofty promises: “In the traditional midnight New Year’s Eve address to the nation, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s new acting President, promised Russians that he...
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