This is from a Q&A posted by Reuters with Eurasia Group (Ian Bremmer). EG doesn’t often tell you much that a regular RA.com reader wouldn’t already know (including a definition of the word “siloviki”), but it̵...
In a sea of colorful Russia pundits, I would definitely say that Evgeny Gontmakher stands out. After all, this is the guy who bravely authored the Novocherkassk-2009 article in Vedomosti, a prognosis of the potential political impact of sudd...
This was an amusingly snide comment piece in the Washington Post from Robert Kagan, poking fun at the media’s habit of embracing everything the Obama administration is doing as “new.” Sure, crabby as he is, Kagan does have ...
From the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal: Don’t hold your breath for the outcome. Russia’s courts take orders directly from the Kremlin, and this trial sets a new Kafkian bar. The same prosecutor who won a state award for th...
The Kremlin has refused to approve a budget proposal for the Sakhalin-1 oil and natural gas project led by Exxon Mobil, putting a halt to development work. Bloomberg suggests that OPEC’s production cuts are finally affecting prices, wi...
Has Russia been impressed by Britain’s handling of the banking crisis? This report says the finance ministry was particularly impressed with Credit Suisse’s advice on Royal Bank of Scotland. Russia could spend half of its c...
TODAY: US and Russia ministers’ meeting goes smoothly, Lavrov praises ‘wonderful’ relationship; Poland says US won’t give up on missile defense; mainstream media worried about unrest; heroin; oligarchs on the way out? Pro-K...
The following is a translation of an interview with Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the former Federal Minister of Justice in Germany and Bundestag member who served as a rapporteur to the first trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, published in Deut...
Our latest interviewee on the topic of “Venezuela and Russia” is the leading expert of the Analytical administration of the Center for political conjuncture of Russia, Pavel Salin. 1. How natural and justified is the convergence of Rus...
An editorial on the Obama overtures to Russia is running in the Financial Times this weekend, pondering whether the Kremlin is ready to act its age and reciprocate some of these concessions being offered by Washington. The initial reaction s...
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