Fraser Cameron, the director of the EU-Russia Centre, has a good opinion column in the Moscow Times today taking a look at the various “carrots” available to Europe to improve relations in Russia, as they meet for their Summit today wa...
Irina Filatova has a new comment piece over on the Guardian about Dmitry Medvedev’s formation of a new commission to fight back against the “falsification” of history. She points out that despite some seemingly noble endeav...
I’d like to highlight the following extract from commenter Ashepe: What is it like to be a Russian in Ukraine? How many of them see anything other than what Russian TV tells them? Are the seeds of future civil wars being sown? Wouldn’t...
CNN’s Eye on Russia series keeps churning out the good stuff… Richard Quest did not hesitate to question Alexander Medvedev directly on the use of Gazprom as a political weapon. See the latest evasive maneuvers below. Embed...
‘In principle we can come to the conclusion that we are on the verge of a crisis‘. Could a row about stockpiling lead to a new gas war between Russia and Ukraine? Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet his Ukrainian counte...
Russia’s international reserves rose $6.1 billion last week as the central bank bought foreign currency to slow the rise of the ruble as oil prices increase. The Moscow Times reports upon efforts to reduce Russia’s dependence upo...
TODAY: Russia expresses alarm at EU moves towards eastern Europe; US missile base could be met with Iskander missiles; corruption claims launched against the Other Russia; Gorbachev says democracy waning; air hostesses on hunger strike The BBC rep...
SCO summit against a background of torture Grigory Pasko, journalist I recently visited Yekaterinburg. The city is literally flooded with police in reflective vests. The word «security» is heard time and again on the streets. On the television, al...
More than a few conspiracy-minded observers like to talk about a big evil plan in the Kremlin to recreate the Soviet Union and annex its neighbors. The goal, they say, is to swallow up more territory and power while toppling any independent ...
CNN is currently doing an “Eye on Russia” series, with lots of interesting short videos posted online. Below is an interview with billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, conducted with a full team of helmeted industrial technicians at com...
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