From Slate, Matthew Polly reports on the infatuations of monarchs, the displacement of Nazi art, and “the Russian way of fighting,” from the “fetid bogland“of St. Petersburg during the 2009 World Sambo Championships. On his...
Over at the RUSSIA! blog, one of our favorite new sites, Katya Tylevich tries to read the tea leaves on the latest dismissal of the preposterous lawsuit filed against Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Is this small victory a sign of hope for Khodorkovsky? Not...
The 2008 US Report on Human Rights was unveiled yesterday, and it made some pretty stark conclusions about Russia. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, issued a pretty formulaic response, telling Reuters that “We have problems ...
Back in the heyday of Stalin’s Gulag, there was a very bizarre form of penal institution – the sharashka. Here’s how it worked: The NKVD would arrest a bunch of brilliant scientists and engineers, throw them in an R&D facilit...
Boris Martynov: “Russia’s geopolitical interest in Latin America needs to be reinforced with economics” Grigory Pasko, journalist The Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences has existed since the year 1961. ...
Here we go again: Gazprom has warned it will again cut off gas to Ukraine on March 8 if the country does not pay back 400 million dollars of new debts. ExxonMobil is preparing to drill new exploration wells at its $17 billion Sakhalin-1 proj...
Budget revenues for this year have been almost halved, but the state intends to increase spending by $14 billion to support the economy – never mind the deficit. The Sochi Olympics continues its search for sponsors from the airline and...
TODAY: Medvedev orders crackdown on extremism, and calls for improved prosecutor performance; US human rights report critical of Russia, may turn to Iran for supply route; web monitoring, human trafficking, Putin mythology.President Dmitry Medvede...
We’ve all heard about the Russian government’s preemptive planning to augment the riot police and expand their powers to break up protests – which are expected to increase dramatically as a result of the global economic crisis &#...
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