TODAY: Communists gather 2,000 supporters; the precariousness of the armed forces; could base closure spell trouble for Russia? Eyes watching for any militarization of the Arctic. Belarus and the EU; World Chechnya Day.The Communist Party reported...
Despite Vladimir Putin’s acknowledged position as one of the world’s more right-wing leaning leaders in the world, many individuals on the opposite side of the political spectrum often seem eager to manufacture excuses, apologies, and ...
Strobe Talbott, who hasn’t been writing as much about Russia since fending off allegations made in spy’s memoir, has a new piece in the Financial Times which makes a Kissinger-esque argument for the growing area mutual interests and po...
We’ve seen quite a lot of grist thrown into the rumor mill that Crimea, Ukraine, is next on the Kremlin’s annexation list following the relatively easy seizure of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. However this piece by Joshua Kucera ov...
Dmitry Sidorov, Kommersant’s man in Washington, has a lengthy piece in Forbes today about President Medvedev’s alleged “split” with Putin over issues of human rights and liberal Democracy. Fat chance, says Sidorov: “A...
Of all the doomsday scenarios Europe fears in its increasingly complicated relationship with Russia, the notion of the economic crisis weakening Democratic and economic advances in Eastern Europe, and particularly in ex-Soviet states, surely ranks...
In December, Disney announced plans to introduce a free version of the Disney Channel in Russia, a market prepped for “vast growth…despite the near-term economic turmoil.” But over the weekend Forbes reported that Russia’s ...
Mikhail Gorbachev has been all over the news lately. First there was the announcement he was joining forces with his alleged political protege, the billionaire banker Alexander Lebedev, to form a new political party supportive of “less state...
‘Giant European energy companies are investing billions in US natural gas and oil fields where huge, hard-to-get reserves have been unlocked with new drilling technology.’ Iran is planning to ‘pre-commission’ its Bush...
Oleg Deripaska supposedly told Russian reporters that ‘the state should be left alone. We do not need financial help from the state,’ but Deripaska’s LDV, a van group based in Britain, is reportedly due to hold emergency talks wi...
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