What is happening in Iran certainly reminds us of another trial in a neighboring country. From the New York Times: The government should be ferreting out and putting an end to these abuses. Instead, it continues to conduct cruel mass show tr...
Russia Profile is running one of those panel things they do with various experts on the first decade of Russia under Vladimir Putin. The praise, as may be expected, is effusive and largely uncritical. Sometimes its even convincing (fun...
We haven’t paid all that much attention to the father-son spy duo Harold and Nathaniel Nicholson, the former residing in jail on a 23-year sentence, while the son, Nathaniel, today pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering related to the...
Presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko has stated there has been ‘progress’ in the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus with Russia’s assistance. Energy was a focal point for discussion between Russian presidential ...
After a long struggle with local authorities, Ikea will resume its Russia expansion as local officials are beginning ‘to follow the different laws that exist‘ said the Swedish giant’s Russia chief. X5 Retail group has showe...
TODAY: Putin’s imminent visit to Poland prompts goodwill feeling; Stalin reminder in metro station causes furor; Poland suggests US missile defense plan jacked; Ukraine and Russia disputes to come to a head over Sevastopol? Russia and Belaru...
From the beginning of Alexander Stille’s guest column in the Financial Times: What are we to make of the news coming out of Italy? Showgirls are put up for parliament; Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, pursues a controversial relationship w...
Craig Pirrong has a stinging piece over at Seeking Alpha on all the upcoming nastiness he expects out of the economic crisis in Russia, beginning with the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam explosion to Gazprom’s disappointing first quarter results.&nb...
Boris Nemtsov has an aggressive piece running in the Wall Street Journal today criticizing the Russian government’s handling of the escalating violence in the North Caucasus. Agree with him or not, he is pointing at a very important pr...
The Russian government plans to invest as much as $1.9 trillion in its energy sector by 2030 in an attempt to increase idling oil and gas output. Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdori has proposed that a Russia-Mongolia natural gas pipel...
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