“The support of the press is imperative to the nature-protection agencies,” said Alexander Malyshevsky, Chairman of the Public Council Under the Federal Service for Oversight in the Sphere of Nature Use, quoted by lenizdat.ru during a ...
I don’t usually do back to back links to the same sources, but this news is just too big (see the original source in Russian here). From Yevgeny Bendersky blogging at RCW: Newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Russian Land Forces, Lieu...
Following the train bombing, Vladimir Putin did the tough guy thing again, and said he would “break the spine” of the terrorists behind the attack. Blogging over at RCW, Greg Scoblete compiles some of his other favorite Putinisms...
Phillip Pan’s piece in the Washington Post today looks at the reactions to the publishing of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s letters detailing the cruelty and repression of his time in prison. Since Magnitsky’s death, though, the...
India’s Atomic Energy Commission has signed a deal with Rosatom to increase future nuclear energy cooperation, with the possibility for the latter to build more nuclear reactors at India’s Kudankulam power plant. Rosatom is the f...
On Russia’s meetings with India’s prime minister: ‘Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who presides over an economy expected to contract by over 8.5% in 2009, looked visibly uneasy as his counterpart Manmohan Singh told him how the In...
TODAY: Perm death toll rises to 117 as Putin demands inspections; Yukos case coming back to haunt the Kremlin?; Magnitsky’s prison letters spark nationwide attention; internet provider admits to blocking ‘extremist’ sites; Putin&...
Roderick Kefferputz from the Centre for European Policy Studies has released a new short paper on Gazprom. Below is the introduction. Download the full study here. Gazprom’s situation has become increasingly difficult since Janua...
The New York Times has a piece today on Dmitry Medvedev’s proposal to reduce Russia’s 11 time zones: “We have to look at this from a biological standpoint, how it is going to affect health,” said Yekaterina Degtyareva, 27, ...
James P. Rubin has a good opinion article in Newsweek, which takes a shot at Barack Obama’s realist tendencies in foreign policy and the swift abandonment of human rights by the new administration. Given the scary results of a recent p...
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