Ronald Asmus has a good editorial on the evolving security dynamic between Russia and the European Union and United States published in the Washington Post: Europe’s bloody history illustrated that spheres of influence do not produce real se...
Dmitry Medvedev went on television the other day to attack Russia’s notoriously inefficient state-owned companies. It was a classic public tongue-lashing – the kind we used to see the place-holding PM Viktor Zubkov give to unfort...
Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people in Russia wear a military or militarized form of dress. Although, common sense would dictate that they shouldn’t be wearing the uniform. For example, security guards or doctors, journalists o...
Despite the lack of a deal on supplies to replace the one that is about to expire, Russia is ‘unlikely‘ to stop crude deliveries to Belarus in 2010. The IMF’s rejection of Ukraine’s request for a $2 billion emergency ...
President Dmitry Medvedev gave his review of the year on television today, praising Russia for surviving the economic crisis: ‘The year was extremely difficult and saw many dramatic events. We have survived and are continuing to develop, pay...
TODAY: Patriarch speaks out in favor of gay rights; Church looking for ways to respond to two priest murders this month; Lebedev ruling meets with pessimism; state services available online; Georgian memorial to be rebuilt in Moscow; Latynina on G...
“Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can...
Many Russia watchers were likely surprised to wake up this morning to read the news that Russia’s highest court has struck down the 2003 arrest of Platon Lebedev, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s business partner at Yukos, as a groundless, illeg...
Russia may look to foreign investors for advice on proposed changes to laws that would ‘woo back companies scared off by a decade of resource nationalism‘. Germany has granted permission for the construction of the Nord Stream pi...
A group of hackers known as the Russian Business Network are under investigation by the FBI, accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars from US banks. Silver producer Polymetal will receive a $100 million loan from Raiffeisenbank on ...
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