Mary Dejevsky of the Independent believes that for Russia the South Ossetians and Abkhazians are basically, well, a pain in the ass. I credit Dejevsky for an original take on a tired subject, but a lot of things don’t add up. Rus...
Some people talk about Russia learning from the Iranian experience in the recent attack on an individual Georgian blogger – an impressive feat of hacking which actually succeeded in crashing Twitter and hampering Facebook with a DDOS attack ...
When the Chechen human rights worker Natalia Estemirova was snatched off the streets of Grozny and later deposited in a roadside ditch with a few bullets to the head, the grotesque brutality of the act was hard to swallow. In response, not a...
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin has said there is no immediate necessity for Russia to extend a loan to Ukraine to ensure its buying of natural gas. In a highly critical open letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Dmitry Medvedev has ...
MDM bank and Ursa Bank have completed a merger which makes the new $16 billion enterprise Russia’s second biggest non-state bank after Alfa. The bank may sell a minority stake to investors and plans to increase its loans portfolio by 2...
TODAY: Human rights activist and husband murdered; Medvedev has idea for military abroad; Georgia suggests the Kremlin seeking justification for incursion. Ukraine-Russia ties on the rocks; reports to be submitted about bribery. ...
Some tough words from President Dmitry Medvedev about the state of the Russian economy and the need to make urgent reforms. These comments are likely to be followed by decisive actions and changes more comments. From AFP: He told Russian pol...
Nezavisimaya Gazeta has an editorial advising the Russian government to diversify its ties with the Iranian opposition, so relations don’t go down with the ship if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s political troubles continue. From the Los A...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty takes the time to pick apart the words of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov – the consistencies and contradictions reveal, well, a frightening and important reality. Many aspects of Kadyrov’s interpretation ...
Why would Turkey sign on to a massively expensive and redundant underwater pipeline that would eliminate the transit business at the lucrative but over-trafficked Bosporus Straits? Because when it comes to Gazprom and Eni’s South Strea...
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