Some Russians seem to think that clandestine, byzantine networks of Republican elites control Washington like the siloviki run Russia. From Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post: Yet there was another, more negative category of foreign respo...
Benedict Mander at the Financial Times points out that the crash in oil prices is causing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to abandon some of the more expensive diplomatic activities that the government has been using to up its influence in the re...
The slumping price of oil reduces the amount of ‘easy’ money available to pay bribes, and could contribute to an overall drop in corruption, according to an economist at Russia’s Troika Dialog. An aide to Ukrainian President Vikt...
Yevgeny Chichvarkin, the former owner of mobile phone company Yevroset, who is suspected of kidnapping in Russia, has reportedly fled to London. ‘The case is likely to irritate the Kremlin, which regards Britain as a pernicious haven f...
TODAY: Russia and NATO to resume ties by next month; Russia to build ‘illegal’ naval base in Abkhazia; new patriarch will be ‘alleged former KGB agent’; Storchak case re-opened; Putin and Medvedev ‘at odds’ abou...
It looks like we’re not the only ones paying attention to the parallel trends of violence and insecurity in both Russia and Venezuela. Today UNESCO chief Koïchiro Matsuura condemned both the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Orel Zambra...
The Other Russia coalition is running a comment piece by Olga Malysh on the death of Stanislav Markelov, looking at some of the theories currently being discussed among Russian journalists and human rights activists as to why he was killed. ...
In the run-up to April’s G20 meeting, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has proposed an alternative to the Financial Stability Forum, which, he points out, excludes the BRIC economies. Writing in Voprosy Ekonomiki over the weekend...
Diplomatic sources reportedly believe that Iran’s stockpile of yellow cake uranium, without which it cannot support a sustained nuclear program, could be exhausted within months, triggering an international race to prevent it from importing ...
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is calling for a new global financial watchdog to deal with the financial crisis. The number of unemployed Russians rose by 1 million to 6 million in December. Car imports through Vladivostok have fallen ...
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