For anyone in need of advanced evidence of how disorganized America’s foreign policy towards Russia will likely be over the coming years, there is this priceless gem about former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s recent trips to Mos...
Rosatom says Russia is planning to start up a nuclear reactor at Iran’s Bushehr plant by the end of the year, in accordance with the project’s original timetable. Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov says he wants to help accelera...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that a government injection of 400 rubles ($11-14 billion) would be offered to Russia’s banks, falling well short of the $40 billion promised by Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin earlier this week. ...
TODAY: US and Russian delegates to meet in Munich today amid new challenge in Afghanistan; Nashi activists spying for Kremlin?; former Mayor gunned down in contract killing, media editors threatened and beaten; Politkovskaya witness says he was as...
She wrote it, not us. From Ellen Barry in the New York Times: Talk about mixed messages. Russia’s leaders this week could not say enough good things about President Barack Obama. His statements on Afghanistan were “encouraging,” ...
I recently stumbled upon an interesting report about a group of Orthodox ascetics, living deep in the Russian hinterlands, who have adopted an iconographic image of Vladimir Putin in its religious rituals. “In a previous lifetime, Putin was ...
I caught this video depicting the Russian government’s brutal crackdown on student and youth movement protests over at Oleg Kozlovsky’s excellent blog. He writes: Saturday was marked by new protests in Moscow and in other cities....
From Robert Coalson writing on HuffPo: After the meeting, Muratov spoke with media, including RFE/RL’s Russian Service, and explained that Medvedev had not spoken previously because he did not want to influence the ongoing investigation into...
Remember the oligarch rescue plan? How the Russian government drew up a list of privileged companies and individuals to whom it would divvy out the stimulus funds (despite Putin’s speech at Davos)? Well it seems that the Kremlin ...
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