In the past we have blogged about the famed Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s dedication of his latest Symphony #4 to Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Tonight at 8PM at the Toronto Centre for the Arts this work will debut. For my fellow Canadia...
You can read the full text of the address here. Lots of attention to the economy, loop feedback on the Putin call for new architectures for Russia to have more power, and some interesting framing of the war in Georgia. With regard to t...
The Financial Times Lex Column comments on the recent announcement by Igor Shuvalov that Russia will undergo a new wave of privatizations of state shares in companies such as Rosneft in order to lure reluctant investors back. Officials talk, too, ...
The following is a press release being distributed today on behalf of the Mikhail Khodorkovsky defense team: OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF ITALIAN PARLIAMENT VOTE TO SUPPORT MIKHAIL KHORDOKOVSKY Rome, September 23, 2009 – The Italian parliament t...
Gazprom is apparently making plans to construct and run power plants in Turkey in partnership with the country’s own Aksa. Kazakhstan will postpone a feasibility study for a gas pipeline along the Caspian coast to Russia until 2010 whi...
The FT reports that Russia and China have warned that the impact of the financial crisis is far from over. The cabinet has approved a 2010 draft budget, with major cuts on managing government ministries, which may see officials forced to red...
TODAY: Russia relenting on Iran sanctions; calls missile defense decision constructive; arms reductions talks are apparently progressing apace; Medvedev urges for Middle East arms cuts too. Island cooperation for Japan and Russia; Georgia un...
In this piece from Michael Allen’s Democracy Digest, it’s hard to think what or who he left out … a real parade of names and ideas from the Kremlin critic community. The ruling elite’s “schizophrenic behavior” r...
For years I have enjoyed Mark Helprin’s novels – “Winter’s Tale” is specifically quite good. What many may not have known is that Helprin is a pretty prolific and uncompromising political opinion writer – ...
Just how low can the trust get between two countries? I just came across the image below from AP Photo by Dmitry Lovetsky which shows Russian protesters wearing Obama and Hillary masks, spraying flowers with poison – as they consider t...
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