Per Bob’s earlier post on the growing divide in Russia policy circles over what the Obama Administration can expect from today’s Kremlin, here Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky (survivor of an extremism trial) answers some o...
According to this piece in TIME, Russia may be on the cusp of changing its policy toward Iran and cooperating with the United States on strengthening sanctions – but maybe not. Although the warmer diplomacy from the Obama administratio...
The clock is ticking down to the much awaited first visit of President Barack Obama to Moscow on July 6-8, and the once high expectations of “reset diplomacy” are undergoing a sharp re-negotiation among the policy circles of Washington...
Some quotes from Italian financial analyst Federico Bordonaro posted on RFE/RL: He notes that Gazprom “benefitted enormously” from the steep rise in oil and natural-gas prices in recent years, and then suffered a “huge blow”...
It appears we Russians have been worried over nothing in Chechnya and the North Caucasus. According to a report filed on Grani.ru quoting FSB director Alexander Bortnikov (right photo), reports of the rapidly escalating political crisis are ...
Here the Russian human rights activist Natalya Gorbanevskaya, who comments “I think now no one doubts anymore that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev are clearly prisoners of conscience.” To turn on the English subtitles, just hit the butt...
Oil prices have soared to their highest since October at $72 a barrel, amid talk of an economic recovery and International Energy Agency predictions of an increase in global demand. A BP reports calculates that there is enough oil to last fo...
Russia’s economy shrunk the most in 15 years in the first quarter after the government’s stimulus spending package failed to have the desired effect. The investment arm of the World Bank plans to use $200 million to buy stakes in...
TODAY: Russia declines offer of hosting US shield; the Kremlin letting the military down; Moscow vexed by Japanese bill; Medvedev claims his reforms offer a ‘modern, more democratic political system’; democracy not crucial says think t...
I’ve been forwarded a link to a new documentary film being debuted at the Human Rights Watch film festival in New York City about the struggles of opposition leader Garry Kasparov (who will be present to speak at the Monday screening). ...
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