TODAY: Activist lawyer faces stripping of status; Lyudmila Alekseyeva to receive German award; Tsibili to name street after Politkovskaya; Gorbachev and Havel reminisce; new poll shows generation gap; extremism on the up; Medvedev cracks dow...
Many commentators have been wondering in recent times exactly how the President plans to realise the reforms of the ‘Go Russia’ ilk. One can look at Macha Lipman on the issue of re-Stalinisation in the Washington Post today ...
Today’s POLITICUS in the New York Times tries to fathom the extent to which NATO and the Western powers really trust Russia to cooperate in putting pressure on Iran, regarding its nuclear programme. Whilst certain recent moves by the W...
The delicate issue of human rights seemed to be, from the very outset, implicated in David Miliband’s ice-breaking trip to Moscow. The trip coincided with the third anniversary of the death of Kremlin critic and ex-KGB man Alexander Li...
Russia has reached a new record high in monthly oil production, at more than ten million barrels a day in October, maintaining its position as the world’s biggest oil producer. Rosneft is at the forefront of the increase with productio...
Jason Bush in Forbes suggests that Russia’s recovery may be buoyant: ‘while the Russian government is still cautiously forecasting 2 percent GDP growth in 2010, many independent economists are already predicting growth of as much as 5 ...
TODAY: Opposition activist torture claims; Miliband leaves with no breakthrough regarding diplomatic concerns; meets with rights activists; Putin and Medvedev popularity waning?; President in need of own power structure to realize reforms; Stalin ...
Bob has an opinion article in today’s edition of the Guardian stressing the importance of linking human rights with foreign relations during David Miliband’s visit to Russia this week, and elsewhere in the same paper, Mikhail Khodorkov...
Opinio Juris, one of the treasure troves of the internet and a blog that I read frequently and have great respect for, acknowledged a very important case the other day in which a federal court in Florida decided to refuse to enforce a $97 million ...
Mikhael Gorbachev has penned an article in the New York Times reflecting on how the period since the fall of the Berlin Wall (the 20th anniversary of which will be celebrated on Friday) has not necessarily heralded a less distrustful approach to R...
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
