Right now in Washington, dozen of galas are convening to raise a celebratory toast to a new era. The champagne was also likely flowing in Moscow at more than one dinner table, however marking a far different type of outcome. This excer...
Oleg Kozlovsky, occasional contributor to this blog, has posted an extensive list of all the political murders in Russia. However before he could finish writing his article, he was notified that the opposition activist Anton Stradymov, who w...
Today at noon in Washington DC, Barack Obama was sworn in as the President of the United States. It was hard not to get swept up in the excitement of such a historical moment, even among us hardened cynics who may be wary of impossibly high ...
«Saint» Putin, with order, mounted Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. I like Germany and the Germans. True, not all Germans. Those who at times forget about the rules of decenc...
We’ve all heard the stories about Igor Panarin, the “academic” who has become extremely popular in the Russian state media for his prediction that the United States will dissolve into five separate countries within a year, but th...
This opinion piece from Alexander Arkhangelsky was published on RIA Novosti in Russian last week, and then translated a few days later (still before the double murder of Markelov and Baburova). See Arkhangelsky’s earlier pieces and RA&...
From the editorial page of the Washington Post: The larger story here is of serial murders of Mr. Putin’s opponents, at home and abroad. Ms. Baburova, 25, is at least the 15th journalist to be slain since Mr. Putin took power. No one has bee...
Several hundred Muscovites, a rather small number considering the gravity of the event, have come out today to lay roses, mourn, and demand justice for the brutal murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova. It seems ...
Oil has dropped below $34 a barrel. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered changes to this year’s federal budget, drawing up new calculations on an estimated average price of $41 per barrel of crude oil for the year, roughly in line...
Dmitry Medvedev’s economic adviser says the government is approaching the final stages of its ruble devaluation, and is planning to allocate another $40 billion to banks to support lending. Moscow rent prices are plummeting, with some proper...
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