The wonderful Andy Young at Siberian Light does something that nobody else can really do – sail a straight line right across the vast and often bitter ideological divide in the blogosphere (do we still use that word?). Over the years h...
The video below is not for the faint of heart – some raw footage from inside the Lame Horse nightclub fire. A fierce blame game has already started, with government angrily accusing irresponsible business owners, while the private sect...
‘The biggest climate meeting in history, with 15,000 participants from 192 nations, begins in Copenhagen [today]‘. The Telegraph has an outline of what they are trying to achieve. The UN’s Climate Chief has called for...
‘[N]o amount of image building will ever hide the fact that Russia has not yet mastered the art of designing a decent internal-combustion engine, a 19th-century technology,‘ notes Vladimir Frolov, arguing for the insourcing of technolo...
TODAY: Perm mourns 112 victims of nightclub fire; START treaty expires with no replacement; salary caps for governors?; racial killings see first drop in seven years; policeman suicide; tabloid hacked; is Russia behind climate change email theft? ...
Who are some of Russia’s greatest thinkers? Whomever they may be, they got left off a long list by the magazine Foreign Policy. Blogger poemless has a good long post running down some of the potential names from the Russian brain...
The Mendeleyev Report has a piece looking at Vladimir Putin’s recent personal attack against Mikhail Khodorkovsky: At times testy, at times tired, and at times funny, Mr Putin held court and you can bet that many a Russian tuned in. How many...
According to preliminary data, 110 people died because of the fire in the nightclub in Perm. Over 100 are considered wounded and victims. Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In all, there were 233 people...
Whomever was in charge of telling me that Yevgeny Chichvarkin’s nickname was the “million-dollar mullet” is fired. That is just too good. Russia Profile has a very good article this week on his case, which is very com...
Alan Philps has a very good article today in the National: A clear cause for the cooling of relations between Moscow and Tehran is the Iranian rejection of a Russian-supported proposal under which Iran would send low-enriched uranium to Russia and...
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